Outside (feat. Marsha Ambrosius, Robert Glasper)

(I was also gonna ask about your fear as an individual)

(You know, it's plenty of people, feel a sense of security around you)

(And kind of lean on it)

(Do you ever feel like a certain amount of pressure from that?)

(Do you ever get afraid?)

(Of course I do, I mean everybody gets afraid sometime)

(What possibly can make you afraid?)

(What are you afraid of?)

I'm afraid, I'm afraid

Sometimes I'm even afraid to admit I'm afraid

I'm afraid, I'm afraid of the weight of my problems

Haters working overtime, eight or nine jobs worth

All these wanna scheme ass **** old basketball shorts

Under jean ass **** need to know

I'ma product of a dead poet, grind at it slow

Equals Maya Angelou

My emphatic flow could rock status quo

Lyin' on the padded flo'

Attic had asbestos eradicated from the barricade

Afraid of the thought of releasing music

That's indicative of where I'm at in life

Will they like? Will they hate?

The better question is, if they hate it, is you down to pay the price?

I'll look you right in your eye

And say you motherfuckin' right

Don't bother me with adversity

I can't get more ground and get conquered

All I think about today's is Mom good?

'Cause she diabetic, my Daddy just had a cancer scare

And do we still work at the post office? The answer's yeah

I'm introverted, knowin' that's it's not about Oz

Bigger problems outside

There's a war goin' on outside

That no man is safe from

You see you can smile, but that won't change

The color of your skin

But I'm the sin

Yet you kick me, punch me, say you don't trust me

Shoot me down like I'm up to something

Fuck with me

And say I've deceived you

But how's that legal?

Am I that evil?

Why do you hate me?

I'm afraid of you going to college and not acknowledgin'

I'm your father 'cause you not proud enough

But I fought hard to make sure you never see certain things

That I'm a product of

It's easy to confuse bein' a father with bein' a provider

But all we got is us

And I'm afraid to lose you

You the coolest kid I ever saw, she did a good job with you

Sometimes I hesitate to take credit for raising you too

'Cause all I did was discipline

I never taught you to ride a bike, but we still a lot alike

And you makin' music now

I wonder what made you want to give this a spin

You know what I'm about to say next right?

I'm afraid of you drinkin'

Though I never taught you to swim, I'm afraid of you sinkin'

I know I taught you to fight, you ain't in condition to win this

You wired different

You just ain't the **** your friends is, it's scientific

Not my opinion, so you know you genetically pre-disposed

To more than just eatin' soul food

So I'm afraid of you to try to risk it

You in a gene pool with a lot of sick fish

And I'm the sickest of them all

Alcoholics die when they stop from symptoms of withdrawl

Look out the window, tell me what you see

Police shootin' brothers the color of you and me

And they actin' like they hate us, so you may just want to love yourself

Enough to compensate it

If I could say this

Say this one thing, this one thing non-related

You were never, ever, ever, better than me at basketball