Vices

2 Years since my Grandpa Sunny met his sunset I was out in Mexico poolside keeping my feet wet Came back for the funeral seen a nug in his casket Hours later me and my cousins smoking and laughing Rarely do I use for pleasure, drink more when I’m under pressure Lately I’ve been working on it, tryna keep my shit together Not really addiction, it’s a problem I can fix it Watch me smile all picture perfect cracking jokes like nothing hurts I got your vices in my DNA I got your vices in my DNA, yeah I checked I bet my life that we won’t be the same I bet my life that we won’t be the same, yeah I bet I been working all week, I get home and can’t sleep If it’s not an early morning I wake up and can’t eat Work ethic way strong, motivation mad weak Man my body at its limit but I know I can’t tweak Different moods for dark days, different gigs the same fee Skin like coal when under pressure, cause these diamonds ain’t cheap I been feeling lonely lately, haven’t seen my family Take a visit, go to see em they don’t understand me When I walk over bridges rails looking like lines of scrimmage I crank my headphones to max screaming lyrics to block the image That’s my body dropping Gardiner traffic isn’t stopping Crush a car hood to my coffin but I choose the better option Jane and Dundas Carvela said I’m not allowed to die Never thought I’d see the day one of my students saved my life By the time you’re hearing this your favourite Scribe will have a wife Pain is dark as winter nights I’m tryna live to see the light Men that came before me weren’t monogamous, vows were Broken promises sometimes marriage scares me task is ominous Friend requests with same last names but they anonymous I’m praying from my blood that I’m autonomous I got your vices in my DNA I got your vices in my DNA, yeah I checked I bet my life that we won’t be the same I bet my life that we won’t be the same, yeah I bet The city way too hot this summer, bullets rain like Beads of sweat it’s like a Oprah giveaway this summer You caught a body, he’ll catch a body they’ll Cop a shotty let it bang and ain’t nobody sorry Streets caught amnesia ain’t nobody knuckle up Tucking tails between they legs and let that anger bubble up They be Egging on his temper he a Bronco he go buck He gon’ pack a strap that’s gonna sonic boom soon as he bust You got rage like Ozaru wanna brawl like Tekken two Takes back to when disrespect made me go gorilla too You want don respect with the temperament of a yute I don’t blame you at all when cops wanna move like abusive dukes Racist media and mayor gon’ treat our dead like they pawns Never forget when cops put they hands on the homie John Removing supervision for all the times they do wrong Removing programs and then placing blame on our songs They see drugs and the dealings Shootings stabbings and killings Leave it to the masses they gon’ paint us all as villains Even when the victims is children they blame civilians Gentrifying neighbourhoods to buy us out the buildings But we more than that, more then hammers set to clap We the northern renaissance that put the city on the map They try to dash us ‘weh we here to stay Father I pray You help us heal while you reveal these wicked ways Fam hear me say I got your vices in my DNA I got your vices in my DNA, yeah I checked I bet my life that we won’t be the same I bet my life that we won’t be the same, yeah I bet