THE PRICE TO PAY ft. Lord Tokunbo Lyrics

Quinsum gimme sum!

Never resign to tears what could be assigned to malice

Spent my whole life chasing them rabbits

Down on the path of Alice

Wondering, humming hymns

Blend in with the outsiders

Making deposits from checks they said my ass couldn't cash

Fast living, got mileage on my heartbreaks

No stylists, no Baraties, no Mardi Gras

Just an art form that turns what's awful

And what's raw into Saudi oil

My rich spirit born of merit from the most divine

I'm seeking solace in some knowledge you won't find up in the open market

I'm on clock till my eyes turn Brock

On mics philosophizing bout my bias towards life

Or how to diet from the night shift

And let some light in

My OG had came to check me in the Tesla

And put me on game

You know how far we done came?

Out from the gates

He bought a duplex far out the X

Up in New Rochelle

Not far away from where we laid a suplex

Up on some tapes

It was Zay and I laying bloody murder

Our work was buried deep up in the dirt

As it resurfaced to find a purpose

Up in my verses

Stay on alert it's very pertinent

As I unearth this

Generational curses that lessen my worth

I don't take time to acknowledge the hurt

Or what I deserve

But as I reminisce deep on what my OG once told me

Never resign to tears when you made it out your fears

I noticed they motives ain't what they seem to be

Why they want to keep me silent

When I'm just trying to be somebody

God I'm trying to be somebody

I'ma pay the price and I ain't sorry bout it

I might catch that lick, grip up that brick

Get you snatched up right quick

For the price to be somebody

God I'm trying to be somebody

I'ma pay the price and I ain't sorry bout it

Sing me a song

Of a life of love so deep, so genuine

That's just for me, me

Sing me a song

I'm sorry that I can no longer pretend to be

What you need

It lingers on my mind now

This I cannot hide now

I've been on a high now

(This my story!)

Living in my better in my truth so

My life in the booth flows

Something like a river

(God through me!)

I've been steady on my grind now

I can testify now

The world it is mine now

(Why you salty!?)

Loving everything that I am

Never, I ain't like them

Tryna pacify me

(They can't hold me!)

It's all by design

I figure I find a cloud with a silver lining

Tryna to defy my divineness, your highness

I levitate over temptation

They want to awaken my lower vibrations

But I peep the work of Satan

I beat break them without the use of this heat

Bullets delete they whole existence

They speak death

I retrace my steps

Watching fiends fight over this just for wreck

Hip-Hop be the recipe it be like lord!

(Tokunbo) I noticed they motives ain't what they seem to be

Why they want to keep me silent

When I'm just trying to be somebody

God I'm trying to be somebody (I'm trying)

I'ma pay the price and I ain't sorry bout it

I might catch that lick, grip up that brick (Uh-huh)

Get you snatched up right quick (Boom, boom, boom, boom)

For the price to be somebody (For the price to be somebody)

God I'm trying to be somebody (Trying)

I'ma pay the price and I ain't sorry bout it

I've been thinking a lot lately

About how our experiences affect our identity

I've been thinking about the entanglement that happens

When you can no longer know the difference between who you are and what you've Been Thru