One of the most bleak rap tracks I have ever heard, and you realize he wrote that the year he died, and it's pretty shocking art, real life, grief, tragedy in a 5 minute song.
Mercy is for the weak when I speak, I SCREAM
Afraid to sleep I'm havin' crazy dreams
Vivid pictures of my enemies and family times
God to forgive me 'cause it's wrong but I plan to die
You can take me to heaven and understand I was a G
Did the best I could, raised in insanity
Or send me to hell 'cause I ain't beggin' for my life
Ain't nothing worse than this cursed ass hopeless life
bars like that speak to something in me, they cut deeper, and in a different place than even the most poignant of Drake's bars about text ennui and late responses
I've been in that place of drugs, alcohol, reckless and death, when my boy died I was playing this a lot, I was like 18. I vividly remember being in a Navigator with this and Death Around The Corner on repeat, slouched in the backseat with a bottle, I just kept saying run that back.
you lose that sense of wonder and hope, and it's all just grief and nihilism. This track I hardly ever play. Too raw, even for me.
Mercy is for the weak when I speak, I SCREAM
Afraid to sleep I'm havin' crazy dreams
Vivid pictures of my enemies and family times
God to forgive me 'cause it's wrong but I plan to die
You can take me to heaven and understand I was a G
Did the best I could, raised in insanity
Or send me to hell 'cause I ain't beggin' for my life
Ain't nothing worse than this cursed ass hopeless life
bars like that speak to something in me, they cut deeper, and in a different place than even the most poignant of Drake's bars about text ennui and late responses
I've been in that place of drugs, alcohol, reckless and death, when my boy died I was playing this a lot, I was like 18. I vividly remember being in a Navigator with this and Death Around The Corner on repeat, slouched in the backseat with a bottle, I just kept saying run that back.
you lose that sense of wonder and hope, and it's all just grief and nihilism. This track I hardly ever play. Too raw, even for me.
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