Ashes (Intro)

While bitches busy
Flaunting and flaunting bodies
Looking for reassurance from the media
Making sure they are somebody
Papa was working
Bringing home the cash for everybody
While niggas broke, smoke coke, slang dope, stroke they rope
Provoke and promote false hope
Murking niggas with scopes
Papa showed me how to take note of the words he spoke
Without fear that I would ever lose hope
Snakes ask a nigga for a licking
I tell them motherfuckers no
With these words papa spoke
I could fix my own will to live
Whenever I couldn't cope
So take these words I pass on to you
And never revoke
Taught me lessons with a theme
I would never lose sight of
Through a perspective of more than just a nigga writing
I gained wisdom in this field
Therefore
It's the shit I choose to write of
A nigga speaks for peace and positivity
A nigga never tried to be violent
Playing softly
Like I'm J. Cole when his mama made him play the violin
This is the murky water that niggas always said they could try and swim
You falling down
Dad showed me how to get my ass up again
Don't use the excuse that daddy wasn't there
So you got scared
To never try again
Cause life's a game
Therefore
I fairly learned how to play fair
Snakes feel for a nigga
When in reality
These reptiles do not care
The thought provoking moments
Remind me of when you was joking in certain moments
Of possibly dying then
Snakes are consistent in trying men
Completely off my rocker
Daddy you only fifty
No no
Get up
Get up
You ain't dying man
You ain't dying man