Dope

(album: Nothing But A Word - 2019)

(Looking out my window
I don't recognize the world I used to know)

[John Givez:]
I'm so underrated, underestimated (Looking out my window)
I'm still dope (I don't recognize the world I used to know)
And I got some folks back home (Looking out my window)
Questioning how I made it
It's 'cause I'm dope (I don't recognize the world I used to know)
I heard you talk behind my back (Looking out my window)
Behind my back
Just don't leave out the fact that I'm dope (I don't recognize the world I used to know)
And life ain't perfect (Looking out my window)
But it's worth it 'cause it's dope (I don't recognize the world I used to know)

[Propaganda:]
Let me tell you like, uh
"Why you always talking 'bout a home town
All that unity between the black and brown?" Uh
'Cause it's dope
"And why you never rap about a bad chick?
You be at the crib posted up with the wife and kids" Uh
'Cause it's dope
Hot wings and [?]
California sunsets, boulevard, I ain't got a set
Gangsta, like "Boy ain't you from the west?"
We was freezing on the street corners in down Tampa Mona
We was feeding instrumentals through the tweeters in your jeep
I ain't never served feen a unless you mean a sixteen
We were blowing all these trees with the G's from Pasadena
We were freely giving music pre-Spotify streaming
Believe me, despite all logic we billboard charting
You looking for a reason to be honest I don't see one
But if you need one it's 'cause I'm dope

[John Givez:]
I'm so underrated, underestimated (Looking out my window)
I'm still dope (I don't recognize the world I used to know)
And I got some folks back home (Looking out my window)
Questioning how I made it
It's 'cause I'm dope (I don't recognize the world I used to know)
I heard you talk behind my back (Looking out my window)
Behind my back
Just don't leave out the fact that I'm dope (I don't recognize the world I used to know)
And life ain't perfect (Looking out my window)
But it's worth it 'cause it's dope (I don't recognize the world I used to know)

[Propaganda:]
They never won no online contest but I spoke at the Congress
We need another sixteen to namedrop
East African origins, peaking through these cheekbones
Means I made a survivor, sitting in my chromosomes
[?]
Life can be a trip, buckle up and hold tight
Remind me I ain't crazy and the grace stay amazing
[?]
Remind me that the truth is not an empty tomb
Sealed the deal, love was so real
[?]
You could catch a glimpse of the fragrance and stay in power
No champagne showers
I'm just dope, I'm just dope
I'm just dope, I'm just dope