Great Ones - Gabe 'Nandez

I don’t socialize too much

Probably cause I talk in my mind too much

Maybe I’m too much

Maybe I don’t care maybe I do but

What do I know cuz?

Think I know a lot, think a lot of you does

Some of ya’ll bright

Some of ya’ll know me

None of ya’ll might

Most of my life I been trouble

Every time I look in your eyes I see double

Lay on the grass, get my ass up

Blade full of hash, weigh the stash up

In the cut, started off strings

Rock ‘n' roll black boy caught it off wind

People criticized me ever since I was a child

Like you talk look dress weird you a weird guy

Never paid it much mind over time though

Memories collide, animosity climb up

Feel like imma lose it on somebody if he talk to me badly

Let shit slide too much now I’m angry

As a kid I had imaginary friends

Come to find out they still imaginary man

I will take a sword into my adversary’s head

I will make sure that my adversary…

Never was broke kid always had food

Always had a roof over my head to go to school from

Went to a couple in a couple different countries

You could say I’m super lucky you could say the truth is ugly

It could sound real nice from the outside

Looking in from the inside

And I’m not alright man

The world for what it is ain’t all that nice and

I have been a tourist to the poor

Been in houses where you wouldn’t open doors

I seen roads that ain’t never been paved

That old women walk barefoot everyday

Seen from the window of an SUV

All these scenes made a mess you see

Cause I was all good in my third world standing

Not from the hood or the hood where I landed

Fuck all that, your boy start wilding

Flipping off expats in they own houses

Diplomat brat was the stamp that was granted to me

So I ripped it off like don’t hand it to me

Tanzania to New York to Canada b

To Jerusalem, Haiti and lands in between

The world’s so fucked up the planet it screams

Every time I talk to it comes answering me

I been a great one since day one

Imma be the great one when my day come

Brave ones, stray ones, same ones, great ones

I been a great one since day one

Imma be the great one when my day come

Brave ones, stray ones, same ones, great ones

Fast forward 24 years

Got two passports is anyone here

Tell me why the airport feel like the crib

Cardboard boxes, my cardboard skin

Time holds hostage everything that it will

My own offspring aborted with a pill

That might cost him, like imma have to pay

I ain’t talking cash money son I’m talking fate

What you know about Gabe been an addict since thirteen

Sniffed K in the elevator with elevated beings

Ain’t nobody could separate me from who I’m trying to be

Nigga sharp as a razor that’s just the nature of a G

White women debating niggas on who we trynna free

Night vision accelerating on us at top speed

Anybody could get it debit or credit for the fee

If I said it I meant that means I gotta get a piece

I been a great one since day one

Imma be the great one when my day come

Brave ones, stray ones, same ones, great ones

I been a great one since day one

Imma be the great one when my day come

Brave ones, stray ones, same ones, great ones