Air It Out

Felt good to air it out, might I say I'm conveying this pain, I'm brazen I'm agitated I say it in vain, cause you was never listening More than half my life without you physically, pop So if we ain't talking now it's cool But to be fair, I'm used to it, yea Cause you was barely there, putting ya legal issues aside, it's fine, if you back We can start from scratch but I had to check you for that, Uh And there's a larger point at play, been boiling up for days You been making some statements that I'm ashamed of First of all, the way you speak of where we came from Got me feeling like you hate yourself Ey this country got you feeling like you ain't yourself The ways I felt, framed it well but played yourself and, uh You need to know we come from kings and queens It's a scheme, got us rope-a-doping when we boxed in, eh Yea, sometimes you got to air it out Yea, so dawg I had to air ya out I don't know if you really feel what I'm speaking on But this shit was too real, for me to keep at home Yea, sometimes you got to air it out, yea So dawg I had to air ya out I don't know if you really feel what I'm speaking on But this shit was too real, for me to keep at home Yea, Yea, Yea, Yea So believe in what you want I'm disappointed but I'd rather keep it blunt You got another son, probably hoping that he is what I wasn't huh Got him thinking that he wrong for speaking Spanish uh Yo that shit eats at me, I'm lost for words We can criticize our own but just want you keep perspective first I understand that you that wanted a better life for me But don't deprive me from my history, see Your own fathers brown as dirt, we from the lungs of the earth You see crime and lies but dawg I see my people hurtin' It's a cry for help, and no amount of privileges can hide that You really said if I don't like it I should go back Well fuck that, I need my reparations No stagnating I need mobilization, been waiting patiently yea It's ironic how you dodged and ducked the system But you mentally imprisoned got you thinking you with them, fuck Yea, sometimes you got to air it out Yea, so dawg I had to air ya out I don't know if you really feel what I'm speaking on But this shit was too real, for me to keep at home Yea, sometimes you got to air it out, yea So dawg I had to air ya out I don't know if you really feel what I'm speaking on But this shit was too real, for me to keep at home Transoceanic trips got us on the strip Run this shit, legit, caught tendonitis Don't slight him in the slightest, foo See we limping in the cut like we got arthritis Foolie foolie it's a cold world Ignorance is bliss, repetition, friction and we don't got time to think, what What's right and wrong, watch them single out the vagabonds Bout time I opened third eye's like Tien Shin Han But this is about us, oh you saddened by me Strange but predictably, you don't know your own seed You should of known I'd turn out like this If you don't like it should have been around for times like this But as I move forward I can't have the standards lowered We grow and evolve, foresee, proceed and succeed The bottom line is it's love but I stand on my feet And if you don't love this culture than you can't love me, I'm gone