Promised

[Intro: Wiki] Uh [Verse 1: Wiki] Judged by people that don't care about me either way Done with pleasing people who ain't aware, when I feel that way I just need to breathe for a second, need to pray Try and make sense of what I made Not the money, every sentence You can't touch 'em, but put a bunch together, make a record I'd say I stayed neglected in the game, but I stayed invested At least I maintained my message And when I changed and I realized the pain I caused, confessed it All my flaws is on my setlist Every bar, I was direct with All the travel days where I missed the city Sitting on my saddle on the Mississippi On my trustworthy steed Or out in Europe smoking some untrustworthy weed The only way to stay high, how I prefer to be On the bus, every day you wake, a new way to say hi, a different currency It's too early for all the urgency My brain feels like been in and out of surgery Open up the curtains, see Everything the world conceived, left to me Not no unnecessaries, only necessities The bare ones, have you cherishing your sense of Qi Set you free, just don't take a turn down the wrong street But what's the loss cost me, nothing too costly As long as I end up back on Mott Street Know I got me a spicy chicken sandwich from my akhi, that's all I need But after all I've seen, I had to stop it After all the years of being toxic In every unity, I got it Every opportunity, he lost him But either way, community still got him Everything you did for profit I've hardly counted what I got yet This just was the only way I could be honest Uh, the only place I could keep my promise [Verse 2: MIKE] Woke this morning, had to pray that I could see beyond this Show me somewhere where it's safe, that's why I need a job A sheer product of my race, so it don't need a concept And you remind me of my ace 'cause I just be alive Sometimes I be obnoxious With the money making gang, how niggas think we locked in Why niggas think they slime? Why niggas jump to make a name and not to leave they options? Why niggas be behind? I peeped them triggers be the same when niggas reek of gossip Fast and eager type I keep it running in the rain, know when those streets is godless Last our leaders died I keep my mother in my prayers and I believe she watching Don't believe the hype I seen my brother's in that phase and how that creature got him See some brothers wishing, hey, I wish I'd leave they conscious Hope they see they prize Them assumptions just the game, I know we synchronized I'd rather be in front the flame than be the one besides it Some shit you leave to God Some shit I really had to say, but I ain't mean to promise It's hard to speak a lot [Outro: MIKE] Yeah