Ruth Williams

[Intro]

This one goes to everybody looking to the stars

Still trying to get that word from an unexpected loss

I feel you and I know your cause

Here's to what we learned

More or less, here's to what I learned

[Verse]

Uh, in loving memory of Ruth [?] Williams

Born in 1935, still survived by her children

Thoughts in Georgia crossing borders

Brought your brilliance to Florida

[?] baby girl, she caught your world and pray for diplomas

Other fathers have priorities outside of your home

Chase the dreams, protect the second families, I was judging

But you reminded us grandchildren who not to fuck with

Tried to keep us together even through all the ruckus

I got the news that you was on the tube

I was out in Cali paying dues

Mama rung the hammer like "Boy just do what you gotta do"

We praying for you when the stars would fall in line for the truth

We waiting for ya

I think I'ma stop on that sentence

Save the rest for another time

Let's get back to the present

California, blessed through my mistakes

Learning my lessons

Doesn't sober niggas up if you ain't getting the message

I dropped Apologies and sold out some shows

I tried to make it on my own, that's why I flew to the coast

I thought the city couldn't hear me through the mirrors and smoke

Come to find it was the other way around

Distant cousins that I haven't fuck with since I was 12

All of sudden, congratulations have been revealed

I used to watch and ask questions to everyone who sell

I take it back now, it's time for me to play show and tell

Got my start in Miramar, Florida then moved to North Miami beach, I was 7

Back when 99 [?] was role callin' and repping

A city divided but taken advantage of

I've heard how niggas talk about us

Boy, they'd rather walk without us, wow mane

Wise, wise, wise man

I'm here to tell you don't get caught up in a dream

Slip up and forget to remember who build you to this time, mane

Know your cause through these lies, mane

Hold down the fort

I miss the simple times when rap was a sport back in Miramar high

Raps with Drake John

Dialect and Jeff Rambo

Back when Will Notes was in the room cutting samples

Back when punchline was killing niggas in lunchtime

Ghost was even spitting with the craziest gun lines

I used to dream about killing shit in the future

I guess I thought I'd bring it back, show you how to get to that so we could kill it

Uh, yeah

So we could all kill it, you know ?

Yeah

I said I told 'em like this, I do it like this

Yeah

I'm reminiscing but I been blessed with a clear vision

I couldn't hear it out there, had to come back and listen

Too many gaps in the road I think we all need the bridging

Too many gaps in the road, I think we all need the bridging

Yeah, and if you feel it let me hear you say

Yeah

Should make the people say

Yeah

Should make the people say

Yeah

And if you feel it, ayy

Let me hear you say

Yeah

She make the people say

Yeah

She make the people say

Yeah

[Outro]

(I can't believe it)

Aight, so boom

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