love for you

just gotta get these thoughts off real quick

see i'm a thinker

it's like thinking shit

it's when you got. you sittin' there reflectin'

thinkin' shit

i peep it though

look

you liked me better before you knew my history

before you knew who i was

that's when reachin' our potential felt likely

nobody like me

besides see if i stop bein' who i am

i'm straight to it

who i might be

but you gotta look inside each song

that's where i proved it was really in sight all along

bear it all so the privacy gone

grab the pen

sit down and write these wrongs

just how i right these wrongs

but look

you liked me better when i spoke usin' censorship

before you knew i was really insensitive

that was back when it was you and me

then curiosity killed you

you had to google me

now i won't call the headlines a liar

some are true and some are false

that's for y'all to decipher

but look

on rare occasions some of what they say'll bother me

i liked it better when the 'net was still a novelty

cause now people who ain't found themselves

get an outlet

yet don't know how they sound themselves

they like me better when i'm silent and don't have an opinion

pretendin' to blend in like i'm a minion

say if joe keep talkin' that shit

he'll get him shot

but if rappers can't tie my shoes

how can i not?

thought i had my city's support

i couldn't believe

jersey city liked me better when i couldn't leave

i take it back

that ain't set in stone

they moreso had weapons drawn cause i left alone

i liked it better when i had nothin' to lose

the days when i felt like i had somethin' to prove

shit

even for me that's unusual

if you don't give a fuck then who you gotta prove it to?

just the world that i was born in

you gotta learn to form wins against the storm wind

they like me better when i fuckin' never call again

without it

they don't know what type of box i belong up in

they like me better without reality television

guess they didn't need to witness the hell i was livin'

in my shoes

you too would seal a fate

poppin' 20 pills a day

somebody gon' feel a way

and so these hoes just to pass time

after the past time

they don't even pass my mind

you liked me better way before you got lied to

but that don't really matter when you want me inside you

your friends sayin' leave

they don't know that you tried to

you can't speak to them

i'm the nigga you cry to

i liked it better when nobody ever heard of me

'fore pop had to get that knee surgery

guess that effected his bladder

so when jackie called me nothin' else really mattered

was scared

sounded frantic

i ain't want no parts of that

said the ambulance came

might be a heart attack

was leavin' work nearly cryin' on the phone

i'm in rush hour traffic

just seen you dyin' alone

look

i just pictured all the places that we never went

all the texts that were never sent

all the words we never spoke

time we never shared

rewind so we can repair

such an inspiration

all the holes that you dug through

then you got released

god was watchin' above you

i'm thinkin' you healin'

i don't wanna disrupt you

so i'm right back to never tellin' you that i love you

and i don't wanna act that way

if i take somethin' for granted

i don't wanna give it back that way

forreal

that's how shit get lost

let me chill

i like it better when i'm not talkin' over my thoughts

now listen

i've done been down

been down

it's all for you

how you feelin' out there?

and i don't wanna get in your way

how everybody doin'

alright?

get you somethin' to drink

and i don't wanna get in your way

get you somethin' to smoke

get you somethin' to light up

whatever your vice is

we here though

this love is all for you

that shit don't be for everybody

man

this love is all for you

now the singers wanna rap

the rappers wanna sing

personally i liked it better back when rappin' was a thing

cause now if you wanna get the high notes

when that hook come

you gotta hit the high notes

the label wanna sell singles

i'm sellin' a story and that'll just taint the message

bad marriage

we ain't got the same objective

still i'm here cause real niggas in the game respect it

look

they like it better when i let 'em live rent free

i never knew that once it stopped we'd be enemies

and though i come off as heartless

nigga

in spite of yourself

got love for you regardless

nigga

now listen

i liked you better when you wasn't in the spotlight

was too addicted to it

said some shit was not right

so when you work so much i couldn't complain

'til i learnt she was gateway escapin' from the pain

the strippers talk to me like i'm their therapist

that scares the good girls away

don't know the hell i get

whatever thoughts you contrive

i can't help you with

but you've been tossin' it for a year and i derail the shit

i'm self made

i don't do what i'm told

the type that needs free reign

to be out of control

forreal

cause when that's gone i'm lost

let me chill

i like it better when i'm not talkin' over my thoughts

word

i've done been down

been down

it's all for you

y'all don't understand me

i don't think they get it though

and i don't wanna get in your way

don't know why you don't apply like

our experiences and shit

and i don't wanna get in your way

to like

my experiences with other people

said his love is all for you

this love is all for you