Self Love is Powerful

I apologize if I hurt you along the way
(For real) self love is powerful
Heard it's the only way (Word)
Self love is powerful
Heard it's the only way (Word)
Drownin' in my thoughts
What if I lost it all today? (Nah)
Never slowin' down 'cause dues gotta be paid
(Right) self love is powerful
Heard it's the only way (Word)
Self love is powerful
Heard it's the only way
That's the motivation I need
To keep makin' plays

All that energy got put in
To keep us from education
Now I identify with them brothers
Locked in them cages yo, don't go back
That's a different way to enslave us
Pickin' up the path that
My ancestors paved us
Nothin' to lose is the mindset
We seem to move with
The world improve when they fill
Us with more confusion
We kill each other more than the KKK movement
Knowledge is power when you
In that courtroom clueless
Crazy how I learned from
All my brother mistakes
Carried all the trait's 'cause
The neighborhoods wasn't safe
I'll just move a little different
And I'll be straight
But I could never prepare for
The problems that I face
Eat better, drink water, think better
Feed the mind information
It's a spiritual invasion
No more moments with my confidence deflated
Is what I tell myself
And I'm not renegotiating

I apologize if I hurt you along the way
(For real) self love is powerful
Heard it's the only way (Word)
Self love is powerful
Heard it's the only way (Word)
Drownin' in my thoughts
What if I lost it all today? (Nah)
Never slowin' down 'cause dues gotta be paid
(Right) self love is powerful
Heard it's the only way (Word)
Self love is powerful
Heard it's the only way
That's the motivation I need
To keep makin' plays

Practicin' Islam just hopin' it
Make us better
Trapped inside these trenches
It's hopeless for us forever (yeah)
Dad was on my sweater, that Beretta necessary
(Ayy) too much for moms to bear and he
Too young for us to bury
Them caskets had to carry was mainey
'cause it was real life
He was just here now he layin' in that field
Like you seen 'em target blacks
For the crack epidemic, real life
Them prisons only built for us niggas
This shit is still trife
It's real life, learn to
Love yourself, nigga, that's real love
The hatred never penetrate either
Ain't no steel love
Old girl he fed his gang
Already run through the and ones
Fuck who talkin' down, it ain't slowin' down
We still love
Drownin' in my thoughts, if I lost it
I'd probably kill somethin'
Self-inflicted pain, quit tootin'
And poppin' pills, youngin'
Self love is power if you ain't
Never learned nothin' from us
Self love is power if you ain't
Never learned nothin' from us

I apologize if I hurt you along the way
(For real) self love is powerful
Heard it's the only way (Word)
Self love is powerful
Heard it's the only way (Word)
Drownin' in my thoughts
What if I lost it all today? (Nah)
Never slowin' down 'cause dues gotta be paid
(Right) self love is powerful
Heard it's the only way (Word)
Self love is powerful
Heard it's the only way
That's the motivation I need
To keep makin' plays