Outside (feat. Marsha Ambrosius & Robert Glasper)

I was also gonna ask about your fear as an individual
 You know, it's plenty of people,
 feel a sense of security around you and kinda lean on you
 You ever feel like a certain amount of pressure from that?
 Do you ever get afraid?
 Of course I do
 I mean everybody gets afraid sometimes
 What possibly could make you afraid?
 What are you afraid of? (afraid of, afraid of)
 (I'm afraid, I'm afraid)
 (Sometimes I'm even afraid to admit I'm afraid)
 I'm afraid of the weight of my problems
 Haters working overtime, 8 or 9 jobs worth
 All these wanted ski masks niggas
 Old basketball shorts under jean ass niggas needa know
 I'm a product of a dead poet riding at it's low
 Equals Mia Angelo, my emphatic flow can rise the status quo
 Lying on the panic floor
 Addict at it's best
 Eradicated from the fabricated
 Afraid at the thought of releasing music
 that's indicative of where I'm at in life
 Will they like? Will they hate?
 The better question is if they hate it is you down to pay the price?
 I'll look you right in your eyes and say you mother fuckin' right
 Don't bother me with adversity,
 I conquered more ground than King Kong could
 All I think about these days is Mom good
 'Cause she diabetic
 My daddy just had a cancer scare
 And do he still work at the post office? The answer's yeah
 I'm introverted, knowing that it's not about Oz
 Bigger problems outside
 There's a war going on outside
 That no man is safe from
 You see you can smile but that won't change the color of your skin
 But I'm the sinner
 Yet you kick me, punch me, say don't trust me
 Shoot me down like I'm up to something
 Fuck with me and say I've deceived you
 But how's that legal? Am I that evil?
 Why do you hate me?
 I'm afraid of you going to college and not
 acknowledging I'm your father 'cause you not proud enough
 But I fought hard to make sure you
 never see certain things I'm a product of
 It's easy to confuse being a father with being a provider
 But all we got is us and I'm afraid to lose you
 You the coolest kid I ever saw
 She did a good job with you
 Sometimes I hesitate to take credit for raising you too
 'Cause all I did was discipline
 I never taught you to ride a bike but we still a lot alike
 And you making music now?
 I wonder what made you wanna give this a spin
 You know what I'm about to say next, right?
 I'm afraid of you drinkin'
 Though I never taught you to swim, I'm afraid of you sinkin'
 I know I taught you to fight, you ain't in condition to win this
 You wired different
 You just ain't the nigga you friends is, it's scientific
 Not my opinion so you know you genetically
 predisposed to more than just eating soul food
 So I'm afraid of you to try to risk it
 You in a gene pool with a lot of sick fish
 And I'm the sickest of them all
 Alcoholics die when they stop from the symptoms of withdrawal
 Look out the window, tell me what you see
 Police shootin' brothers the color of you and me
 And they actin' like they hate us so you may
 just wanna love yourself enough to compensate it
 If I can say this, say this one thing, this one thing non-related
 You were never, ever, ever, better than me in basketball
 Phaha. yeah right, sure