Don't T.I.P.

[Intro]

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[Verse]

So intense, thinking too deep

When they say that it ain't, but it is to me

Where do I begin this story? A couple years before Year 3

It's 2000 or 01 that time in Year 1 when I was picked on

Ever since then been one to roll on my ones most times

Probably why I'm so overprotective of my son

Would dread to know such things happened to him

And history repeat, luckily they tried to defeat me but failed

So I didn't have to get back to my feet, 'cause I'm like MBJ

Or more so MJB

Emotional being; equivalent to an elephant or a whale

Never forget the effects that it had on me and what it leads to

Now I've got all this PTSD like Mrs Mickie when she was bullied too

And called Piggie James, that wasn't cool

They aimed shots at me some missed but however many on target pierced the skin and now others I don't let in so easily because I bruise and refuse to endure and suffer or be subject to anymore open wounds and let them attack like Emily

Spent so much time tryna impress 'em like Lacey

Ended up tryna walk away like Macy

Since they didn't take to me

Hoping I'd end up seeing brighter days

But it wasn't my golden hour yet like Kacey's

Pent up all this anger that forever chased me

Like I was chaste and feeling frustrated

Made me triggered as I was taking all the sly digs

Like I was Taye, see

It's not just Ls I be taking and claim as this namesake for me

I be taking it personally on a regular basis

Everybody goes through something

Even the greatest, Ali or the son of Afeni

Even the rose that came through the concrete

But every so often, I feel so depleted

For the love I rarely received it

Wasn't reciprocated from family to friends

Made it a duty to be there and sing their praises

Never fall 'til they're faded, so elated

Never to be debated

Octaves high but felt silent when it was me up

As if I dropped the re-up

So many lost loves left me jaded

But I thought to myself a couple months ago:

Is this all because I wouldn't do the same to them?

Maybe so

The same things they do to me, they probably do to many others

So why take it personal?

Don't take it personal – Jhené said it

Don't take it personal – Monica said it

Don't take it personal – about time I learned not to take it personal and let it go, 'cause it hurts, I know

[Refrain]

So I pay no mind, I don't tip (let it go)

So I pay no mind, I don't tip (let it go)

So I pay no mind, I don't tip (let it go)

So I pay no mind, I don't tip (let it go)

Don't take it personal