#LTM

[Intro: Angela McCluskey]

I brought you something close to me

And left with something new

See through your head

You haunt my dreams

There's nothing to do but believe

Just believe

[Verse: Ab-Soul]

And please don't confuse me with dot, I'm different

Long Term Mentality, still remember them cheap wood benches

How could I ever forget, I never could get

How niggas couldn't get up and get all they could get

Man I done seen a thing or two of things that he or she will do

To fit in with each other nitpicking at each other

Killing each other, bringing each other down, crustations in a bucket

Fuck it, roll your windows down in your bucket, play this loud

Soul brother number fucking two, my time on these 1's and 2's

I'm on this track like running shoes

I dedicate this one to Cletus Anderson for working harder

Than the average man, or bend over backwards for his family

Doing whatever is you ask for him

Shit, I know he fucking tired, he should be somewhere retired

Still trying, bills still due and between me and you

Until we get a mill, life smells like mildew

[Chorus: Ab-Soul and Pat Brown]

Long term (This is long term!)

Long term (I hope you studied, cause I'm thinking long term)

Long term (I came, I saw, and conquered)

Mentality, mentality, long term (And it's an honor)

Long term (To share this with you, wait no longer)

Long term (Mother fucker this is long term)

Mentality, mentality, long term

[Outro: Interviewer and Ab-Soul]

This situation is to relay how to make other people's lives, uh...

Better

Better because of—of running into what you had to say

Exactly

Of them finding your words

And they need to know this I've been doing this since Black Community Freestye Chapter

That's probably like, what, 2002-3? You know what I'm saying?

And I kept at it, I kept at it from there

And you're only—

24 I just turned 24, I just turned 24 it's crazy. You know what I'm saying?

So I dropped the — you know, Long Term came out

I dropped that finally, that didn't work out

Then I came back with the Long Term 2 shit they was like "oh!"

That's kinda cool—that's kinda cool right there

Then dot dropped the O.D., Kendrick dropped the O.D

That shit was like—

It went over everyone's head

Everyone's head

But they were still able to connect with it

Exactly

But it was like you hadn't heard this in a minute

It was like a rejuvenation...Exactly, exactly...you know?

Almost like, saved hip-hop

And about preaching, none of y'all are trying to preach like—

Like you're the new cats but it's just—you're not—

You didn't ever look at it like it was dead but you're bringing it back

Exactly

You're bringing it back to life

Real shit

Then Q dropped the Setback shit and that shit was like—

You know what I'm saying? Like, you know—and you already know, groovy

So, Top—Top talk to me like, he said, you know—

"You gotta go ahead and try sell something"

I'm thinking to myself it's a little too early for me to try and sell something

I'm still fresh but he said, "You need to go ahead and try it out

Everybody else selling

You gotta do Long Term something nigga, you know, I don't care what it is

But that's your brand. You know, long term is your brand"

I didn't even want to do Long Term 3 yet until I'm rich

That's what Long Term 3 is about, being rich

So, I'm like you know

Damn, okay

So this is kinda, you know, just kinda like a—I wanted it to serve as like a summation of what Long Term is about and what it really meant

You know what I'm saying?

You a cool cat Ab, for real man

I mean fuck I'm on tour now dog

I'm in Minneapolis, dog

People know you, when you go to a place—

You know what I'm talking 'bout?

I'm in Minneapolis bruh, cold as fuck people know who I am over here bruh

I'm on tour with Murs right now, the Paid Dues tour

Like what the fuck is going on?

That's long term!

You know what I'm saying?

You're on the Paid Dues, he just said it by putting you on it

(Soul!)

[Outro: David Icke]

People talk about a soul

To me what we call soul -- the highest expression of ourselves

Is pure love

I don't care who you are, what your background is what you've done

I don't care if you're Henry Kissinger or George Bush

Or David Rockefeller or the Queen of England or any of these

Guys that have been manipulating the world and still are

At that level of yourself, you're pure love

Everyone is but you can become disconnected from that level

And manifest in that disconnection anything but pure love

But that's what we all are, all of us