Strength (Redux)

To the 3:30AM waking up paperboys

Hate the job, you'll hate it more when you ain't employed

I say strength to you, this one is tailored for

All the night shift nurses at the hospital

Raise their families dressing up open sores

**** out of control messing up the neighborhood

Just an average boy till he got made a hood

Bad boys play for good casket maplewood

Shame when you bastards gotta face the music

He who pays the piper learns to play the tune

Strength to the guardians that pray for you

And bring a few packages to the prison too

The rat race claimed a few

That Mickey Mouse house trap made for you

To all them young ladies that made the news

Them charges don't stick like paper glue

Blame a pencil skirt, take a number two

On a person's worth what it's coming to

Ayy, strength to that dark **** Mamadou

They burn rubber like Fast & Furious coming soon

Strength to that other dude

Lost a child to substance abuse, the cops don't got a clue

She was Riri reading from the song book

Did it for the kicks got off on the wrong foot

This for the onlookers living for the RT's

Steep fees can't get schooled, so pricey

These chics undressed nude, y'all like it

E.g. less IQ, more IG

Strength for my auntie

Who's in a better place RIP

My **** Shaan ain't with his family

Strength to Melissa and Tyreeq

Tshidi got pregnant at 19

Stogie T scared for the laities

Strength to my country

We are now The Empire

Flight lands today, her man's running late

She clears customs, the officer didn't scan a trace

Palm touches face, the crown jumps a place

A near brush with a lady in a rush to her gate

Before she's in the plane, the count sits at eight

A mere cough all it takes to get more on the way

Beer bottle exchange, told him, "Here's a taste"

They been friends since before they called 'em college mates

A week later his date is blushing, all is great

Takes a shot with the babe, fuck it, wanna get laid?

The cleaning lady ain't safe, touching all of their waste

She bring it across the way, from taxi to home base

Happy warm embrace with family showcase

They blind to the slow-pace

Malady in those veins, one known case

Reports surface

Made in China, but this jumper wasn't no J's

A ticking time bomb with no clock face

Everybody masked up from what came out the bat cave

We fight AIDS, what's a flu to the old age?

Hotep **** like, "It's the food and the Colgate"

Snowflakes think the cure be in the toilet paper

And I'm stuck home-schooling a fourth-grader

But God's greater

I say faith over fear to all patients and physicians out there

I'ma stay in the crib

A song maker, I make jams for your ear

We'll talk later when the vaccine appears