ROOTS

By Bata!

On FIFOOT

Released on March 13, 2020

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[Verse 1]

Plant bloom, seed the soil I was born from the dirt

Pole’s tomb, he really spoiled ville of my family birth

Only two feet from the street is where his head met the earth

And only two blocks away my parent’s marrying church

Guty and his cousins steady immigrated like birds

Shawties waiting patient until the day that he return

Nineties shit was crazy, lucky cops ain’t shoot at him first

Shaved his head to get a job

Well I guess, whatever works

Now it’s East L.A

That’s where Coyote Tony stay

In and out beat his shawty almost every single day

King put crowns on his daughters, swore he love em’ to death

But shawty didn’t love the father so she took em’ and left

Chella and her fella sipping Stellas by the sunset

Eldest daughter yelling at her brother, lighting up a cigarette

Bowsher bitches instigating, they like to act rock

But fucking with the wrong girl, got them smacked by a pad lock

Now it’s fuck this and fuck that

Fuck dreams and fuck thoughts

Think I’m uncreative

Listening to niggas say they fuck thots

Baby momma plant a bean by the edge of her foot

She just wanna see a Phoenix rise from the end of the soot

She seen a daffodil grow from all the pressure it took

So she cut off the head, let it lay next to its roots, nigga

(Let it lay next to its roots, nigga)

(All our lives, they intertwine, forever now and until you-)

Shit ain’t been the same since Reuben died

Sing Kumbaya for our kindred who reside on the other side

Noelia feeling angry, perform a coup de’ etat on her state of mind

Let her bear a child, the world’s end came in the knick of time

There’s only one year left, so take a deep breath and hold that bitch tight before you even take your last step (x2)