IMANI MEANS FAITH Lyrics

The forgotten one

The daughter that wanted to be a son

From a problem I don't run

I may ghost and contemplate the outcomes

I won't be out won

I'm sure my superb wordplay

Will go unheard each day

But speakers blasting my voice loud when no more O is in my lungs

The O is where I'm from

But I'm disgusted with the feeling of a lack of support

Addressed as IP on the court

But I had bigger visions passed the sport

Slave to my mind I wade in the waters of my cries

Spitting heat and I can't pass the torch

I'm chasing the signs

That the younger me envisioned since I could color in lines

Lines get crossed when our colors divide

Lyrics I write I'll narrate on the beat on the fly

Bro your fly open, better close it

Cause on the wall is a fly

Telephone game, your name will be gossiped so quick

Flash photography

Receipts kept, your sheets wet

Your girl wept, how you gon cheat death?

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned

Sin city where we was born

Cause Adam and Eve

Vice principal said it's no Adam and Steve

7th grade faced hate of a gay faith

But that's what my name means, Imani

A lyrical prodigy, Da Grandmasta

I'm a creative not just a rapper

Paint pictures for your soul's hunger

Not for fame you see in a plasma

Plastics friends, the bus coming

We all got a Regina

No matter the environment of your region

I'll make you a believer

Feet up as I'm writing but I'm running a fever

Pen steaming

From these emotions I'm letting roam on the page freely

Financially challenged weekly

My own work I'm heavily critiquing

Born in the six month on the sixteenth

Lives lost in a blink

Some my brothers moving weight and I ain't talking bout blink

Some my brothers facing time

Social posts from facetimes

Wasted time in certain moments

But lessons learned through the commotions

I'm floating, on this beat

Words smooth like lotion

Can't be too open

People be loathing

They don't know my story

Nightmares got gory but I wasn't sleeping

Insomnia got me up with my demons

I'm talking my brothers or my feelings

Another ceiling, I will break

I can't hesitate, to give a taste

Of my beautifully twisted mindstate

I'm really a unique soul

Tragedy striking, like lightning

But this bug gon glow, this bug I can't shake

I got the sickest flows

I get wicked though, when the time is needed

I'm confident not conceited

Know it's been greats before my birth

But I'm just tryna see the best version of me with this

Buildings I was sneaking in

To inhale the best tree with friends

At least I thought they was

Repeated roll call and they don't ever show up

Or even have enough class to grow up

Old laughs, drunk fucks

But that's the past

Now I'm writing this as I lay on my wifey ass

She's enough, she's perfect

She's gorgeous, she more than

Anything I've ever imagined

She understands the methods to my madness

Soft kisses, head lifting when I'm crashing

And to my son you can slay any dragon

But your heart is full of gold

You'll probably keep 'em as a pet

I give you all I got in a world that gave me less

Truly blessed

That I've rerouted certain steps to success

And even if I fall the scars will help me reflect

Scars are conversations in which people connect

To my grandma I hope you meet me in the day I take my last breath

Wait, wait the beat almost over

Now how should I snap next?

Like, how should I snap next?