Black Beetles

By Joey Bada$$

On B4.DA.$$

Released on January 20, 2015

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[Chorus]

Low on self-esteem, foes been out for me

Someone's watching me, this world ain't proper, B

Thinking I could be dead

Low on self-esteem, foes been out for me

Someone's watching me, this love ain't proper, B

Thinking I could be dead


[Verse 1]

And I guess we them little black beetles

This won’t attract the singles and that flow is mean

But it lacks tacs and needles

I spend my days sharpening my skill wills while it's still legal

Reading through cathedrals applied to my cerebral

They ain't built they feeble, driven by the ego

The vision of an eagle, see the vision in my people

How many lives will they take today? We ain't equal

Another world war sequel and doomsday prequel

This ain't the world we thought it was when we was in pre-school

Sometimes it's hard to be cool, sometimes I feel like I'm see-through

Sometimes I really wish, yo I wish that I could be you

Away from all the Hollywood acts and record contracts

I won't say I take it back, because I worked hard for that

But this life ain't turn out to be what it seem

Ever since I woke up I been living in a dream

Got me


[Chorus]

Low on self-esteem, foes been out for me

Someone's watching me, this love ain't proper, B

Thinking I could be dead

They got me low on self-esteem, foes been out for me

Someone's watching me, this love ain't proper, B

Thinking I could be dead


[Verse 2]

Who would've thought a marchin' Martin could spark a starvin' artist

Spit art, at heart young Marcus Garvey

Ponders on it, hardly, rap wonders fondly

Smoking herb with just Marley & Me

This one is for my dogs barking up on the tree

Sometimes that wind blows eventually she gon' leave

That's mother nature for ya, uh

Patient and sagacious

I ain't gon pay shit watch she ain't gon say shit

Now that's respectable cause most women expect the dough

Accept it though, words of the wise through them rhythm-wrecking professional, exceptional

Half man, half extraterrestrial

They got me


[Chorus]

Low on self-esteem, foes been out for me

Someone's watching me, this love ain't proper, B

Thinking I could be dead

They got me low on self-esteem, foes been out for me

Someone's watching me, this love ain't proper, B

Thinking I could be dead

They got me low on self-esteem, foes been out for me

Someone's watching me, this love ain't proper, B

Thinking I could be dead