Love Is Love

(album: In Celebration Of Us - 2018)

Love me like fighting thru yellow tape
'Til you find that the face ain't mine and it set you straight
But you find that the face was in line with your other name
So you repast, front of the line to get a plate
Or love me like a purchase on 47th and 6th
And the Russian jeweler knock off $100 off what you pick
In the middle of February your sleeves up off your wrist
And you add another $100 when discussing what you spent
And the discussion hit a switch
And it turns to where you tucking your wrist
Or you get to untucking your suspense
And all the suspense of it leads to adrenaline running
And it's orchestrated all from the other side of the fence
And then love me like that side of the fence love bottom lines
While their kids call their friends kids and they holla "slime"
And they don't get the gist but they get what it can provide
And they still don't know how to pronounce "collards" but it's fine
Love me for not assuming that you see me and assume
I'm pursuing how you see me tryna lead you out your gloom
Or maybe you assume that you see me in the scenery you knew
And I ain't never did a scene but it's cool, right?
Love me for overlooking what I ain't have to
Chose you when you didn't choose you when you had to
Pretend it never happened if mine should ever ask you
Wouldn't take much to revert to what your past knew
Love me like Harlem loves Pan Pan's memory
Standing on display off of hand to hand symmetry
Cameras get in play while you handle what the ticket be
And candles on the way if you ain't handing out dinner seats
So love me like I introduced you Dominicans
Whether it was Ayisha Diaz or her kin and them
Talking bout a price and what it's worth to be the middleman
Fitted for a crown and how it works and the expense of it
Love me like the drummer, love me like never running outta runners
Love me like what we sung before they hung us
Hymn's getting lost in the clouds when they was flung up
Or shells getting caught in the crowd by the wrong "others"
Like, other than you, and other than him
Until they learn those exceptions turn to others with them, right?
Or, otherwise shooting for the other side
'Til they box you without a trial on a 1-5
And then love me like you was Venida Browder
Pickets outside and you just tryna ease the crowd up
Knowing your heart died makes your heart beat louder
Until the speakers blow and it lift you up from around us
Love me like we-loved the legacy that her youngest would become
And the illusion of no reruns
Love me like turning down a plea when you need one
But knowing that your word is worth more than what a plea does
Love me like getting pussy off a DM
The turn around time at her door before the week ends
Caution she ain't throw out before, but now she in
And her heart beat sitting at the door that let you leap in
Love me like pictures on the wall not resembling
You so them pictures on the wall start trembling
And you got pictures for the wall that can fit on it
But dude start thinking bout his wall and that's the end of it
Love me like '88 3s, Nike Air heels
Dropping $220 will take away how fear feels
I'm $700 first day, word to the steering wheel
Kites for who bleeding but this a hype we believe in
Love me like not understanding the hype of it
But you love it so there ain't no one else who might love it
Or loving it since you understand cause you was there
When it was misunderstood at $100 a pair, yeah
Love me like the moment that the jakes leave
Knowing that's another 24 with no the state greens
My man said his aim dirty but his name clean
Tried to tell his mother the difference before the day leave
Told her love him for every chain that he wore
Every serial number scratched, every tre in the drawer
Every feeling she ever had where she awakes to a call
That he's gone, it never happened so don't blame the allure
Love me like Jada love Sheek love Styles
Love LOX lovers all geeking thru the crowd
Love me like me at 14 geeking out
Or 20 years later still screaming who it's bout
Love me like a J dub's dedication
Following their lead 'cause they seem to have better patience
You fear what you don't understand or levitate with
I say that with a pint in my hand, that's regulation
Love me like my son on the way when I see his charm
And by the time you hear this he'll be in my arms
Same arms forever here where he belongs
Is the same arms that Ima bare if you mean him harm
Love me like all of the above in a bag
Singing "fuck 'em all!" when you in love with a stash
Or singing "fuck 'em all!" when you in love with a flag
That takes what you want, or loves what you had, love is love