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TRUST by NF

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NF

TRUST

Release date: 26th March 2021

From CLOUDS (THE MIXTAPE)
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About This Track

'TRUST' appears as the ninth track on NF's 2021 mixtape 'CLOUDS (THE MIXTAPE)', featuring Tech N9ne. The collaboration pairs NF's introspective intensity with Tech N9ne's technical precision across a runtime just over three minutes. The lyric adopts the structure of a confrontation with self-doubt personified as the devil, NF recounting a descent into hell to interrogate the source of his headaches. He describes being told he doesn't feel like a winner, being called a sinner, being urged to give up and live in a kennel. The track pivots on his refusal: he meets his ego, starves it deliberately, and rejects the invitation to remain trapped. The internal argument unfolds in cascading cadences, NF switching moods and vocal approaches as he catalogs his damage, his sanity, his vantage point. The performance leans on NF's habit of treating his music as inseparable from himself, a posture he acknowledges when he raps that he can never walk away from what he does. The devil sequence reads as allegory for the recursive nature of creative self-criticism, the artist aware he has often been the cause of his own headaches but unwilling to let the voice win.

"TRUST" is a track by NF, from the album CLOUDS (THE MIXTAPE), released 26th March 2021. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

NF

NF

Lyrics

TRUST

[Verse 1: NF]

Focus on it every single day, I wanna figure out a way

To get ahead of what I think I know is comin'

It's obvious you got a problem if you always tryna make it seem

As if you've never been afraid, then why you runnin'?

I could never look at what I do the way that other people can

And walk away, I can't be separated from it

Stickin' out my neck is how I made it where I'm at

You wanna cut it up but can't, man, they can never take it from me

(I'm) Outlandish, take chances

Gotta get it while I can with my damage

My sanity could leave but if it vanished

Don't matter to me, I'd still manage

Gue-guеss you could say I'm at an advantage

My vantage point can be quitе lavish

Got so many cadences, no way to pick

One, which bag is my hand in

Depends what mood I'm in

Oh, no, I'm in a mood again

Lord knows I'm a hooligan

Losin' it, who can get gruesome with

You if it comes down to it?

You can bet I shoot direct, defuse the threat

And they wonder why the music has a huge effect?

Could it be 'cause I've been the go-to when it comes to depth?

'Cause I'm the one that they be callin' when the people get fed up

And want the music with the visuals, I got a vendetta

For any part of me that wanna make it hard to get set up

But take away the happiness, it can be kinda pathetic

But when I look at everything that's tryna give me a headache

I gotta be honest, I really been the cause of it, get it

'Cause I can see a side of me you'll never see, you can tell

When I'm at the breakin' point, I finally had to sit with the devil

I went into hell and I asked him what the problem is, yellin'

He tried to get me to live with him, even called me a sinner

And told me everything about me doesn't feel like a winner

So why continue when he's tellin' me I might as well give up?

I took a moment, thought about it, feelin' caught in the middle

But got offended when he told me I would live in a kennel

And I can never leave it, even if I made it to Heaven

He'd find a way to get me back and send a demon to get me

I'm like, "Woah (Woah), hold up, I don't think so"

Skin and bones meet my ego

How's he look? He don't eat much

Let him starve, I don't feed him

I just beat him, I just leave him in his womb, in the fetal

Let him cry, let him yell, let him scream, I don't need him

Lift off when I'm ticked off, my pitfalls I latch on to like a pit dog

I sit calm with a sick thought of a sitcom of the life I live

Life I live's more like a sci-fi flick

I hide in, wanna watch? Dive right in

My silence doesn't mean I'm dyin'

Just means I'm careful with the time I spend, so

[Chorus: NF]

(Look, look) Look what I, look what I done (Ayy)

Helpin' 'em people I love (I love)

My life is not what it was (No)

I'll do whatever I must (Woo)

Count on one hand who I trust (Ayy)

Count on one hand who I trust (Yeah)

Count on one hand who I trust (Ayy)

Count on one hand who I trust (Ayy)

[Verse 2: Tech N9ne & NF]

Tech N9na, next king up

Everyone knowin' that I'm a death bringer

That lingua vexing ya

Leavin' a regular rapper resting, bruh (Chyeah)

This is what, I give it such

An incredible wicked rush, a vivid gush

Of poetical livid stuff to rid his gruff

Said, I better go rip it rough and I lit it up

The prestige I gather from people lovin' the Tech speed (Whoop)

Lyrically elect me, Jet Li

The beat, it got ya bobbin' until your neck bleed (Whoop)

That is tellin' me "Let's feed"

On the bitter the bogus the hitter will focus

Deliver the doses and give a critter the dopest

Spitter to flow sick and now the quitter corrosive

A swig of the roguish'll give your liver cirrhosis (Chyeah)

The boogie monster reppin' with NF in the hoodie

Want to step into the session and fully conquer

The weapon to lessen our profession go bully bonkers (Chyeah)

Left in a wreck, never checkin' nor could he stomp us

Take his crown

Thought he was gonna make us run away in a battle with his fakeish frown

Shake his ground

Like I'm the Mechagodzilla, I'm such a killer when I break it down (Uh)

These flows are the cheat code for the weak Joes

That need those elite bros with the heat, so

They can eat on the D low

Off a beast yo' ego, got it vetoed (Chyeah)

Please close your beak foes, delete scrolls

Taken from me, thieves chose to try to decode (Chyeah)

Reload the beat, so I can reach each soul

No cease, no finito, release (Go!)

I am the chosen and everyone is beholdin'

My energy is golden 'cause dominion is being broken

From enemies in the open approachin', I'm never jokin'

The remedy bein' spoken, I'm hopin' that you're soakin' it up (Chyeah)

I'm in the motion, I'm dope and I'm never chokin'

My devotion to floatin' like an ocean, the Holy Ghost and

I'm scopin' the evil folk and revokin' the wicked notion

I'm croakin', I'm really floatin' and quotin' that I'm closin' it up (Chyeah)

Talkin' behind my back

End up where N9ne is at see me and say

Kinda wack, you could not find the knack

Hit you with a rhyme attack freely and spray

I'ma beat you 'cause I'm greedy and slay, if you're creepy and cray

I'ma eat you like PB&J, kiwi and grapes

I'ma demolish 'em when the T be in play, pray!

A stunna recordin' in my number three Jordans

Dungaree sportin', the tongue on me is gonna be scorchin'

The punishin' hunter eat like a hung-ary orphan (Chyeah)

T9 and NF are elephants

In the room without a closet for skeletons

Quit embellishin', a demon from hell is sent

Yell it went, Donny, you're outta your element! (Ayy)

[Chorus: NF]

Look what I, look what I done (Ayy)

Helpin' 'em people I love (I love)

My life is not what it was (No)

I'll do whatever I must (Woo)

Count on one hand who I trust (Ayy)

Count on one hand who I trust (Yeah)

Count on one hand who I trust (Ayy)

Count on one hand who I trust (Ayy)

Look what I, look what I done (What I done)

Helpin' 'em people I love (I love)

My life is not what it was (No)

I'll do whatever I must (Woo)

Count on one hand who I trust (I trust; ayy)

Count on one hand who I trust (I trust; yeah)

Count on one hand who I trust (Ayy)

Count on one hand who I trust

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Track details

From CLOUDS (THE MIXTAPE)

2021
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CLOUDS (THE MIXTAPE)
CLOUDS (THE MIXTAPE)
NF
26th March 2021
Release year
2021
  1. —PRIDEFUL
    3:26
  2. —THAT'S A JOKE
    3:50
  3. —CLOUDS - Edit
    3:50
  4. —LAYERS
    3:15
  5. —DRIFTING
    3:20
  6. —CLOUDS
    4:04
  7. —JUST LIKE YOU
    4:11
  8. —STORY
    4:40
  9. —TRUST
  10. —LOST
    3:55

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