The Essence

Yeah, it's the calm before the perfect storm Kept on writing, it gets worse the more that I try to suppress the fact that I'm not the right person for her But I could've sworn that when she called me from her dorm Looking for some loving or a reason to have something on her sweetheart back home when he wasn't informed It's been a dozen or more, sorry I missed your calls Too busy tryna convince 'em I'm 'bout to lift us off, never flip or switch at all Cut out from a different cloth Values I held close came splitting off and ended up in verses I never finished but this was all DIY I'd be surprised if you were ever realer than I billed you as 'cause so far, you like CSI Only with the drama and the surface-level tea is why you'll never be eating fine as I when you eating fine Rising above you, to me, a piece of pie Don't let her call you easy, guy Don't let me give you film noir visions of me and some women sipping tequila after the pinot Mi casa, su Casamigos I gave what you need most On Beastmode, on Deebo, on anyone who try to be frugal in this casino Every .wav from me feel like a heat stroke To me, it's light as free throws Nearly thirty-three, she need a freak though Own a biz but steering in a leased though Ever since you went out like Olivia Rodrigo, the sweet and sour hitting instead of the spicy miso She hold it down from Rox and the cherry on top is a maraschino Recording sessions are very much Tarentino Grew up bumping Ali and Gotti and Jay and Primo Back when everything was always all about bragging to 'em It's only right I'm paying homage with my ego, but who knew? Put some U2 on the Bluetooth It's a million things she glued to and not a single one of 'em I'm new to That's too true for YouTube On the verge of ending my stream of consciousness here but the numbers doing JuJu When life gave her lemons, she went to Lulu Another day of to-do's and posing in my mirror, they closer than they appear to be That being said, not a single would shed a tear for me Even with our history, I'll pull up to the pier and I'll guarantee you sincerity Knew when I was claiming this vision, we lost our clarity Besides, I'm not about to be out here taking your charity I find my ideas my ideal form of therapy You deal more with paralegals, I deal with la musica, my vocals on some kerosene I was not aware that our fragile lives weren't a guarantee Until I moved to Dot and dawg, honestly, it's been scaring me And this is all before they try to tear at me, rip me up and embarrass me The time is coming, I'm becoming something they won't dare to be Apparently, the kid got his zone in it momentarily Just wait on it, my head perked up No thirties, just love verse lust It's been "fuck them" since it's been "fuck us" (Mm) Right, so you have to have this knowing that Okay, it may not work today, it may not work tomorrow But, this is the right thing and this what I'm doing and this is what's feeding me So, I would, that would, that would be the best advice that I can, I can give you That knowing, just, just believe in what you're doing And if it's, and if you don't believe it then you're not doing it You, then you haven't figured out the thing that you do best yet When you feel it and when you know, no one can tell you, it You only have to be right once