ATM, Six The Don - Essence lyrics

The definition of being a man
That's a long one
But i think what it boils down to is just um
Being thorough and um
You know I read in the bible
That women and children can be careless
You know what i mean men can't be careless
So i think being thorough and um
Whatever the opposite of carelessness is
Defines what being a man is at the core
Streams

What you know about us? (Uh)

Insane in my membrane i’m off my rocker
Need to shock my chakras
My sister goes to Hofstra
I wish I went to college
I could of been a doctor
The way I chop rocks up
What you know about us?! On my sons momma
We flourished in the drama
Sinning from the start up
But nigga God got us now I’m a father
You gotta think farther
What you know about us?! Fuck the gossip
I’ll tell you all about her
My last girl missed the target
Nigga I’m a marksman fuck all the nonsense
Peep all the progress that I got In progress
Fuck you know about us?!
Too busy slinging O’s to shoot a video
And have my face all in it
Nah, I never did it
Imagine hustling for whips
Just to limo tint them so the boys can’t
See who’s sunk up in them nigga
What you know about us?! Ignorance is bliss
Thought I was living half my crew is dead
The other half the was in prison i
Escaped the system shots skinned him
Fuck algorithms
I swear I could feel the world spinning
Nigga what you know about us?!
When in doubt kill the doubters
May the strongest one in the room
Be the loudest jewelry shouting
They gon’ whisper about us anyway
Might as well go and take their power
Nigga fuck you know about us?!
You let the news tell it
We in a noose fellas whats a cool sentence
Without a few felons?
That’s how they do fellas
That’s how these fools dead us
We got write the ending
Fuck you know about us?!
I say, let there be light
Means the darkness is is the essence in
Which all is started so
Let’s go start shit let’s tear apart shit
To gain knowledge we must go retarded
Fuck it what you know about us?!
Uh what you know about us? Uh

Who I am is rather complicated
And why’s that?
What I do is a different conversation
Besides that i’m a man in a timeless Matrix
A big heart, a big chip i speak soft
And carry a big stick a Brooklyn mind
With a Queens heart and Bronx gat
I’m the pirate manifest
I’m Captain Hook in the flesh
Cause time took a chunk from me
But above that being aware is this luxury
And what it gave me back
Was the wisdom to proceed
Knowing I can fall flat
Sailing these concrete seas
But ain’t no looking back my inner child
Has seen too much to smile in fact
The Chief I am had to heel him
And bring my conscious back
To this God like stature the creator himself
The Elohim for my children
I’m branding them well
Letting my inner light shine boys
Soak in that and let your melanin glow
You know kings are black
At my essence I’m the father himself
As I strive to be more like him everyday
Which keep me hotter than hell
And it’s harder to fail
When you a father of males
You me bartering well
I freed my heart from it's cell
And connected it with my intellect
As I’m networking it now
Through this internet
I’m in tune on these tunes
Feel these Tidal waves i sing my BQE blues
Through the night and day the righteous way
By speaking truth to my bias face
At my essence I’m a judge
I got to light my way
Corona, Queens on my face
Say, fuck out my way queens King all day
What more can I say?
What you know about us?!