If I Loved Me

[Verse]

If I loved myself, I wouldn't put the habits above myself

I wouldn't dumb myself down around cats who don't want myself

Craft more than a craft, I can't pun myself

I'm a human fuckin' being, I got human fuckin' feelings

I ain't admit I was sad 'til like eighteen

And that's only 'cause like three rappers said I could

Well, if you young and you listenin', I said you could

If I loved me, I bet I would be the best I could

Know that I'm bigger than a habit, we all doin' backflips

To figure out the math, it ain't rocket science

We've got to triumph with compassion

But my passion ain't calm, tell 'em fashion they bombs, I'ma have to stay strong

Occupation of the land, occupation of the souls, occupation of the songs

They say America, if you don't love it, you can leave

But I can't exit this body, this soul, this time, this me

But I'm inundated with more than I can grieve

The skin I'm in burns from the lessons that I've learned, I ain't less than what I've earned

And I'm more than what I'm worth on the market, I'm purgin' the darkness

We here to (Love), we here to (Trust)

Is that too preachy? I don't give a fuck

Can't relate? You ain't lived enough

Ain't talkin' age, I'm talkin' pain, I'm talkin'

If we loved each other, we just wouldn't

'Stead we let violent do what just couldn't

How I'm supposed to stay on beat without a heart?

If I loved me, I'd do the work

That post ain't permission to not do the work

You post for permission to not do the work

If you loved me, you wouldn't do that

First we say it to our parents, then we say it to our girls, then we say it to the world

But if we'd say it to ourselves, maybe we would have a shot

Wouldn't need to have a shot, wouldn't need to have an opp

Maybe we could be we and wouldn't need to have a prop

Maybe we could worry 'bout the tock of the clock 'stead of upticks in optics and profits

And not risk it all just for posturin'

Stop preachin', white boy

[Outro]

Nah, I'm just speakin', fam

For the first time in a long time, I ain't gaspin'

I'm breathin', fam

And I don't care if they believe it, man

'Cause I love me

So I wouldn't do that