Pusher Man: BWI

(album: Reason To Smile - 2022)

FaNaTiX
We just talk, huh

Stuck between a rock and a hard place
Stones in my timepiece, please don't watch face
This room got elephants in it, tough crowd, hard day
Can't please everybody, can't trust anybody
This game wasn't ready for me
Still got some readies for me
School, man, I'm ready for it
Path wasn't steady for me, I walk different
Ain't code-switching, I talk different
Revolutionary, my thoughts different
You man are old spice with the horse missing
Fucked up my transmission, waiting to transition
Lost in translation while feeding the damn nation
You really think the change were free?
The same kind of pain that you came to see?
Well I put a stack up on my trauma, 'cause my trigger finger itch
Chatty patty on the plate, I had to make a meal of it
Pick another brave face, start my day and deal with it
Think they want another hit and I'm the dealer

Pusher man, I'm your pusher man (Pusher man)
Pusher man, I'm your pusher man (Pusher man)
Pusher man, I'm your pusher man (Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yo)
Pusher man, pusher-pusher man (Yeah-yeah-y, uh, woah)

If he got it for 20, I could get it for 10
Connected to the plug and not a friend of a friend
Too many middlemen and now the pot getting thin
What's another butterfly to a pimp? The plot thickens
Aeroplane mode, I'm ignoring every phone call
It's popping when it's popping, when it's not then they don't know yo
Still a dirty fella, when I'm spitting I got no rules
Of course them want a seat at the table, I got no room
Spud me when I'm local, salute me when I'm global
Hate me out loud, I can't hear you at that volume
I think the agents wanted pop hits, but this ain't dat
You ain't been around the fiends to tell me this ain't crack
Now the room smells fishy like the cling don't wrap
Man, you really think they lived those raps?
Always wondered how it gets like that, 'till it gone like that
Think they want another hit and I'm the dealer

Pusher man, I'm your pusher man (Pusher man)
Pusher man, I'm your pusher man
Pusher man, I'm your pusher man
Pusher man, I'm your pusher man (Yeah-yeah-Pusher man, pusher-pusher man)

My mother's voice always felt like home
But eventually you're outside, on your own
The scariest thing about raising a boy is
Learning that when you become a man, that target on your back is a little bit more permenant than a tattoo
You have to learn quick, real quick

Nothing more dangerous than a black man with intelligence
Even worse when he got some relevance
They give drugs to my people and turn a left, I'm fucked
They like you better when you sell a bit
You ain't a bust if you ain't never got your hands dirty
Good with the .15, your honour gave a man 30
I just paint a picture like I'm Stan and Curvy
Not like I ain't did it, I just did it early
Before the cameraphones, certain youtes were never certi
Before the therapy, a trauma that was reoccuring
Felt the energy around me, tryna switch and curse me
Only family in my will, I write that shit in cursive
You're lucky I'm a different person
I was cleaning up my act while you were still rehearsing
All that slick talk ain't rich talk
I knew gangstas moved in silence when I was piss-poor
When the road to success, this stress a pitstop
Once I got me some money, my bitch was hip-hop, and she look pretty now
When we're walking down the aisle, I pray we diddy-bop
I tried to leave the game, but it cost a lot
They always tell you, "Read the small print"
They said "Love is free until you're getting dropped"
Used to be family, now we're orphans
Shit was all good just a week ago
And shit was looking pretty just a deal ago
Swerving out the dealership, looking like a ton of gold
Feeling like I sold my soul before I even touched the roads
Ends is unfamilliar, now I gotta come and go
Used to have a couple bros, united by a common goal
Planting seeds of doubt like they didn't want to see me grow
Think I worked this hard to stay the same? Then I can't keep you close

I know too much
And there's nothing more dangerous than a black man with intelligence
Especially with some relevance