Bloodline

Lyrics

Why do I stay up late like the clock owe me answers?
Fightin shadows in my room like they trained as dancers
Pen on the page like a blade on cancer
I ask why I chase when the chase don’t pay
Why I rap when they laugh like boy you lost your way
Focus on your job, leave rap alone
Kendrick ain’t in your lane
NF ain’t either
Better ride afro if you want believers

Friends scroll fast like the screen gon burn
Same ones call quick when the tables turn
I gave when I had none, gave till it hurt
But when I drop tracks they act blind
Act deaf when my lines online
Act like my grind don’t count
Act like my sound don’t hit
So I start askin, is it me in the way
Am I blockin my steps or scared of the stage?
Scared of the climb
Scared that I’ll waste all the years and the prime?
Scared that the mirror gon say “Boy you lied”?
Scared I been writin my own goodbye?

But if I fold
It’s my two hands that crushed the flame
My own voice that buried the name
Can’t blame fam
Can’t blame friends
Can’t point fingers when it all depends
If I stop now my kids gon’ ask
Dad why you quit when you had that path
And the shame gon sit where the love should live
I can’t hand that down to the kids of my kids

So I flip pain and loss into lessons
Doubt into drive, rage into blessings
I’m chasin the truth in the life I choose
I’m buildin a road with the hurt I knew
Layin bricks with the fight that grew
I’m doin this for me, for my bloodline too
So my son see fight when the world say lose
So my daughter know voice when the crowd stay mute
So the kids of my kids got proof in the roots
So my clan know strength when the walls won’t move
I rap cause I must, not cause I can
I rap cause the trust gon’ live in that clan
Cause the man I am ain’t the man who folds
I’m a man who builds with the pain I hold
They throw me lines, but I bend that line to a hook they quote
Turn that shade to a light that’s mine
They think I’m broke but I’m rich in grind
So I turn that mud to a clay I mold

But I know if I stop then it dies with me
All the nights, all the scars
All the lines with me
And my kids left with stories of what dad could’ve been
Not the path that he carved
Not the fight that he wins
So I keep spitting till the roots run deep
Till the name I built is a name they keep
Till my kids and their kids live free of the pain
Cause I took all the hurt and I turned it to gain

I’m not done
I’m not through
I won’t stop now
I can’t let go
This is blood, this is mine
I won’t fold
I won’t run, yeah

I’m not done
I’m not through
I won’t stop now
I can’t let go
This is blood, this is mine
I won’t fold
I won’t run, yeah