Show Up

[Intro]

Yeah

[Verse 1]

I been in and out of pocket like a wallet

I only come out when it's time to pay

The grinder's wage, the cost of every line I say

Appreciates with time, it's like a stock or a bond I save

And if words were dollars, I'd be rich, but they ain't

And if thought or scholarship was dope, I'd be dank

If the smoke was the pain that I feel from all the hopelessness, shame

From the wokeness I gained, you could roll me up and toke me away

Shit, I just been tryna find a groove with it, yeah

In my slippers on the stoop sittin'

New chick got me stiffer than a new fitted

Told her you an escape for me and she was cool with it

And I don't wanna need, need, need my vices

I just wanna free my mind (Yeah, yeah)

But if I'm gon' believe my life is mine (Yeah)

Baby, I'm gon' have to redefine

[Chorus]

My mama told me one thing about you, baby

Is that you always show up when it's time

But I been takin' L's all month

I been win-free, I'm feelin' like Oprah

I'm on my grind, though, and if I fuck it up, fuck it

If I fuck it up, fuck it (Fuck it)

'Cause when it's time to show up I'ma show up (Yeah)

Sure enough, baby, matter of time, matter of time

[Verse 2]

And if I fuck it up, fuck it, at least I wasn't a puppet

I'm warrin' with the money like Buffet

I don't wanna need or want it, I ain't budgin' for your budget

That's a luxury of luck, it's a lot of folks out here starvin'

I pour my OJ in a glass, I said, "Mom

What if I do my best and it don't last?" I said, "Mom

What if I'm to crass or too passive or blasphemous?

Or if I get too nervous to act?" She said, "Yo, hold on

You forever been different

When you ain't in the room, baby, the elephant's missin'

When it's your time to go, you in your element

They forever been tellin' Craft to leave, but somehow every diss miss him

You got that type of strength that look like weakness to the untrained eye

But you gon' be above these feelings, baby, one day, I

Know you don't need 'em when the lights go on

Now man the fuck up and go write your song," one time like

[Chorus]

My mama told me one thing about you, baby

Is that you always show up when it's time

But I been takin' L's all month

I been win-free, I'm feelin' like Oprah

I'm on my grind, though, and if I fuck it up, fuck it

If I fuck it up, fuck it (Fuck it)

'Cause when it's time to show up I'ma show up

Sure enough, baby, matter of time, matter of time