Yeah this line wasn’t bad, but I still can’t see the context you’re reaching for with the Latasha line, breh.
It doesn’t matter what he was trying to convey, even if it is about spirituality.
Let’s be real, it ain’t that much different from George Floyd’s sister “forgiving” Derek Chauvin or from Botham Jean’s family “forgiving” his killer.
I'm not reaching with the Latasha song.
Will I survive all the fights and the darkness?
Trouble sparks, they tell me home is where the heart is, dear departed
I shed tattooed tears and couldn't sleep good
For multiple years, witness peers catch gunshots
Nobody cares, seen the politicians ban us
They'd rather see us locked in chains,
please explain
Why they can't stand us, is there a way for me to change?
Or am I just a victim of things I did to maintain?
I need a place to rest my head
With the little bit of homeboys that remains, cause all the rest dead
Is there a spot for us to roll, if you find it
I'll be right behind ya, show me and I'll go
How can I be peaceful? I'm comin from the bottom
Watch my daddy scream peace while the other man shot him
I need a house that's full of love when I need to escape
The deadly places slingin drugs, in thug's mansion
The above part of the song is a representation of reality. It is a question of how we can be peaceful when all we know is suffering on earth.
The passage that follows:
Dear Mama don't cry, your baby boy's doing good
Tell the homies I'm in Heaven and they ain't got hoods
Seen a show with Marvin Gaye last night, it had me shook
Drinking peppermint Schnapps, with Jackie Wilson, and Sam Cooke
Then some lady named Billie Holiday
Sang sitting there kicking it with Malcolm, 'til the day came
Little LaTasha sure grown
Tell the lady in the liquor that she's forgiven, so come home
Maybe in time you'll understand only God can save us
When Miles Davis cutting loose with the band
Just think of all the people that you knew in the past
That passed on, they in heaven, found peace at last
Picture a place that they exist, together
There has to be a place better than this, in Heaven
So right before I sleep, dear God, what I'm asking
Remember this face, save me a place, in 'Thugz Mansion'
Is fantasy, a dream, where the dearly departed move on to a better place. He's not saying he forgives Latasha. He is dreaming of an afterlife where she is able to grow and her death is something that can be forgiven.
That's not a reach, it is right there in the fukking song.