That Power (Explicit)

All these haters
See you later
All that I could do
But you don't even feel me though
I know you know I know you got that power
That power
Oh  oh oh
So CG but a ni**a stay real
Though I'm fly I'm ill I'm running sh*t
3-points  field goal
Rappers used to laugh like I tripped and fell
Cause I don't stunt a gold cross like I Christian bail
Yeah  they starin' at me jealous cause I do shows bigger
But your looks don't help  like an old gold digger
Uncool  but lyrically I'm a stone cold killer
So it's 400 blows to these Truffaut niggas
Yeah  now that's the line of the century
Niggas missed it  too busy
They lyin' 'bout penitentiary
Man  you ain't been there
Ni**a you been scared
And I'm still living single like Synclaire
Lovin' white dudes who call me white and then try to hate
When I wasn't white enough to use your pool when I was 8
Stone Mountain you raised me well
I'm stared at by Confederates but hard as hell
Tight jeans penny loafers  but I still drink a Bodine
Staying on my me sh*t  but hated on by both sides
I'm just a kid who blowing up with my father's name
And every black "you're not black enough"
Is a white "you're all the same"
Mm Food like Rapp Snitch Knishes
Cuz its oreos  twinkies  coconuts  delicious
How many gold plaques you want inside your dining room
I said I want a full house
They said  "You got it dude "
All these haters
See you later
All that I could do
But you don't even feel me though
I know you know I know you got that power
That power
Oh  oh oh
Holla  holla  holla  holla at yo boy
Like yo dad when he's pissed off
Got flow  I could make a cripple crip walk
Niggas' breath stank  all they do is sh*t talk
People want a real man  I made 'em wait this long
Maybe if he bombs  he'll quit and keep actin'
And save paper like your aunt does with McDonald napkins
How'd it happen  Honesty did it
See all of my competition at the bodies exhibit
Yeah I bodied the limits and I get at them fakers
Motherf**k if you hate it  cremated them haters
So  my studio be a funeral
Yeah  this is our year  oh you didn't know
Uh  yeah I'm killin' you  step inside the lion's den
Man I'm hov if the 'O' was an 'I' instead
On stage with my family in front of me
I am what I am: everything I wanna be
All these haters
See you later
All that I could do
But you don't even feel me though
I know you know I know you got that power
That power
This is on a bus back from camp
I'm thirteen and so are you
Before I left for camp I imagined it would be me and three or four other dudes I hadn't met yet  running around all summer
Getting into trouble
It turned out it would be me and just one girl
That's you
And we're still at camp
As long as we're on the bus
And not at the pickup point
Where our parents would be waiting for us
We're still wearing our orange camp t-shirts
We still smell like pineneedles
I like you and you like me and I more-than-like you
But I don't know if you do or don't more-than-like me
You've never said  so I haven't been saying anything all summer
Content to enjoy the small miracle of a girl
Choosing to talk to me and choosing to do so again
The next day and so on
A girl who's smart and funny and who
If I say something dumb for a laugh
Is willing to say something two or three times
As dumb to make me laugh
But who also gets weird and wise sometimes in a way I could never be
A girl who reads books that no one's assigned to her
Whose curly brown hair has a line running through it from
Where she put a tie to hold it up while it was still wet
Back in the real world we don't go to the same school
And unless one of our families moves to a dramatically different neighborhood
We won't go to the same high school
So  this is kind of it for us  Unless I say something
And it might especially be it for us if I actually do say something
The sun's gone down and the bus is quiet
A lot of kids are asleep
We're talking in whispers about a tree we saw at a rest stop that looks like a kid we know
And then I'm like  "Can I tell you something "
And all of a sudden I'm telling you
And I keep telling you and it all comes out of me
And it keeps coming and your face is there and gone
And there and gone as we pass underneath the orange lamps
That line the sides of the highway
And there's no expression on it
And I think just after a point
I'm just talking to lengthen the time
Where we live in a world where you haven't said "yes" or "no" yet
And regrettably I end up using the word "destiny " I
Don't remember in what context
Doesn't really matter
Before long I'm out of stuff to say
And you smile and say  "okay "
I don't know exactly what you mean by it
But it seems vaguely positive and I would leave in order not to spoil the moment
But there's nowhere to go because we're are on a bus
So I pretend like I'm asleep and before long  I really am
I wake up  the bus isn't moving anymore
The domed lights that line the center aisle are all on
I turn and you're not there
Then again a lot of kids aren't in their seats anymore
We're parked at the pick-up point
Which is in the parking lot of a Methodist church
The bus is half empty
You might be in your dad's car by now
Your bags and things piled high in the trunk
The girls in the back of the bus are shrieking
And laughing and taking their sweet time disembarking
As I swing my legs out into the aisle to get up off the bus
Just as one of them reaches my row
It used to be our row  on our way off
It's Michelle
A girl who got suspended from third grade for a week
After throwing rocks at my head
Adolescence is doing her a ton of favors body-wise
She stops and looks down at me
And her head is blasted from behind by the dome light
So I can't really see her face  but I can see her smile
And she says one word: "destiny "
Then her and the girls clogging the aisles behind her
All laugh and then she turns and leads them off the bus
I didn't know you were friends with them
I find my dad in the parking lot
He drives me back to our house and camp is over
So is summer  even though there's two weeks until school starts
This isn't a story about how girls are evil or how love is bad
This is a story about how I learned something
And I'm not saying this thing is true or not
I'm just saying it's what I learned
I told you something
It was just for you and you told everybody
So I learned cut out the middle man
Make it all for everybody  always
Everybody can't turn around and tell everybody
Everybody already knows  I told them
But this means there isn't a place in my life for you or someone like you
Is it sad  Sure  But it's a sadness I chose
I wish I could say this was a story about how I got on the bus a boy and got off a man more cynical  hardened  and mature and sh*t
But that's not true
The truth is I got on the bus a boy  And I never got off the bus
I still haven't