A Beautiful Mind

When you look at my brothers
What's your first impression?
Does the sight of us leave you guessin'
Or do you understand the stressin'
The aggression?
The look of no hope on my niggas' faces
Like the Lord overlooked us when
He handed down his graces see embrace us
Falls short on the numb tips
Of street entrepreneurial fingers
Stuck in the walls of the project halls
Where the coke smell still lingers
External blingers is all we can be
'Cause on the inside we've been
Given nothin' to shine with

Gotta frown at some of this stuff
They say that new Duffle
Don't sound hungry enough
I've never lied to you
This how I'm summin' this up
It's hard to replicate a hunger
When nigga's stomach is stuffed
I'm not a man that look for someone to bluff
Kept it a gram, now niggas numbers is up
Stick to your plans when
Niggas come to disrupt
Some niggas smile in your face while they
Put a gun to ya gut
A newly refined beautiful mind
If you needed an artist who's in his prime
Who would you find?
'Specially when you feedin the family
Doin the crime
I know the feelin' bein locked in
The cage and losin' the time
You should not be afraid of provin' ya grind
Visionary with the words that could lead
A school of the blind
I'm paranoid in my mansion, losin' my mind
By the window with the tip of the barrel
Movin' the blinds no need for ya commentary
Where was niggas at when
I needed the commissary?
Half of these niggas love to be in a cell
The other half dread it here like
Martin Payne at the monastery
Everything we do with our
Lives gotta be honorary
On top of makin' it monetary
When it come to murder, I'm calm as any
Take a stand and you gettin' life
As soon as your honor's ready
Duffle Bag had to be him, savvy and grim
Soul searchin' in the valley of sins
Daddy was him chip off the old block

And a gig is hard to get than coke
So niggas get their grind on
'cause the TV tells us
Aim high, nigga, make all goals

In the gutter where you can find me
Who else gon' give you the
Realest verses besides me
Corona's got my eyes low, lower than Chinese
Supply these niggas masked up over them 5Gs
Supply the world with this vaccine
Relax queen i'm a little more than a Shaq
Meme in a rap stream
What that means I'm enlightened
When I be writin'
Black dreams of us fightin' the
Shackles they tried to tighten
I represent somethin' marvelous to us all
A blueprint if you fatherless and you poor
No new prints, the revolver is in the draw
I'm a warrior in a garden
Not a gardener in a war steel against steel
I'm just sharpenin' up the sword
That's regardless of your awards
I'ma harvest all the applause
I die for you to live
Put this martyr up on the cross
Went to Harvard and took a course
I'm an artist you should endorse
Duffle and Craven, somethin' amazin'
We holdin' every hustler and
Vagrant stuck in amazement
My every step crushin' the pavement
Fuck the engagement
We Jessie and Walter White when they
Bubbled up from the basement
Who you think you 'bout to be
Cuffin' up in the station?
I never met someone I can
Trust enough to be patient
My flow is quite clean like COVID-19
Pipe dreams
They was never a rush to touch any patience

When a nigga goes from not doin' to doin'
What do you tell him, not to be a nigga?
Shit, I gots to be a nigga
That's how I pay the bills
And I'ma do that whether I
Gotta sling this coke
Or exploit these rhyme skills