I don’t personally know a mother and a daughter, who went through this. But I have friends that have died from gang violence.

I hear people talking about what they don’t like all the time and mad at why’s she at the top and I don’t like her. Instead of taking all that energy talking about people you don’t like, why don’t you put that into the people you do like?

That ain’t something I focus on. That ain’t no spilled milk that I’m crying over, like tear in my eye but that’s also a tier, like on another level. I’m over that, I’m on a different tier, a different level.

Some more wordplay.

They say I got a slight, slight lisp. I might, but you know, it don’t take away from my skill.

People hone in and nitpick on that but they not listening to what’s being said, like the genius of it.

Y'all be on everything but the music when you judging somebody on how good they are. It don’t be about the music, it be about how you look, the way you talk, what co-sign you got. It ain’t about the talent, the pure talent of it, so that was what that line was.

People like to put you in this box, like, for one they take hip-hop and they separate it. Kind of like they do tribes in Africa and how they do us within our own communities.

We’re not different. It’s all hip-hop, just everybody got different styles, but me because they put me in this conscious backpack label, I’m not supposed to like Waka Flocka or quote-un-quote turned up rappers.

They’re MCs too but they just got they own style of how they do it. That’s their story and how they want to tell it.

We can co-exist in this together. If anything, the balance is lacking but we should all respect each other and that hurts hip-hop more than anything.

I come from a small town, I’ve got a big family. We grew up very close and I think coming from a small town you can get sucked into this fish bowl thing where you think this small circle is all there is in life, and you just get caught up and you get stagnant.

You get stuck in that, and everything around that drags you into a dark place. Versus me, like, I got out and I saw that the world is bigger than this small street or this small town I grew up in, and you knowing like how brilliant and smart your loved ones are but they just really stuck in this bad place and you wanting to shake them. Like, come out of this. Like, come see the world. Yo, you got options.

They don’t look outside the fish bowl and this is how frustrating that is when you see, like, the toll that it takes on them and you can’t help them because if they don’t want to help themselves it don’t matter what you do, you can’t help nobody ‘til they want to help themselves. So this is definitely a real personal song.