I see a better way, I’m keeping my eyes on the sparrow T.I. (Ft. Netta Brielle) – Hallelujah
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Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?
-Matthew 6:25-34
Like the sparrow (bird), T.I puts all his faith in god, and not in other men. Despite all he has gone through, he has no fears, and takes back his position as leader.
Just prayin homie, and reminiscin T.I. (Ft. Netta Brielle) – Hallelujah
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The prison experience clearly seems to have taken a toll on T.I. He stays up late, thinking on his past and praying he achieves a better mental state.
Simpson road is T.I’s street. He has mentioned it before.
Peep Simpson road on the Rap Map
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Cold needles are used to minimize injection pain. So just like the contents of an injection entering painlessly in your body, his dense lyrics have all kinds of effects, and you don’t even realize what’s happening.
All of this plays into the incognito, in-disguise persona that he’s creating in this song.
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He held his peace, and just the energy of his presence made everyone else back off. Joey clearly dominates his street.
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Ahh.. the typical black guy problem. When you’re young, black and male, you’re likely to be typecast as a “ghetto troublemaker”, and taxicab drivers are generally unwilling to stop for you.
This guy is wearing a suit and has a slightly better chance, but when you dress like Joey, the task reaches a level of near impossibility.
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His upcoming mixtape, Summer Knights, and his debut album, B4.Da.$$, are going to be follow-ups to 1999, the acclaimed mixtape that launched Joey onto the rap scene and first started the eating.
He’s going back for second and thirds because he is eating, which is said in the previous line.
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ReTREATing for seconds and thirds