Truth Be Told - Intellectual

Marqui Rasheed’ll black on any track

Take heed to that, believe in that

Went from egregious acts to reading Acts

I work so hard but yet I’m flawed

Cause sometimes I don’t even rap

Told my writer’s block it’s on sight so I’m keeping tabs

Over the years I gave you my two cents 10 times to make a paradigm shift

Over these drums, my truth is what I pair lines with

Doing my thing working on this rollout, I was paralyzed when

I learned that the place I’m in, they couldn’t care to spare lives in

Once upon a time I seen a little old kid in a YungManny video

He was litty in all of the visuals

His cameo really was pivotal

Got me thinking I hit the pinnacle

How one day Imma reach all the children tho

Life is short, Fast forward 2024 he was murdered where I shot a video

It makes no sense, and then Big Winn, I’m praying for you and the city bro

Got a brother of mine that’s a little grown

He starting to go through the typical peer pressure

Wanna be a reflection of what God can do once submitted tho

So Him and his friends have a visual

My album can’t come any quicker tho

All this weight on my brain, it’s a challenge

And the ways of the Lord, I can’t fathom

Am I sure what’s in store, I imagine

Been through way too much to doubt him

Tru-Tru-Tru-Truth, be told

Lord, you you you, you know

Mom think I’m hard on myself

I think I’m way too lenient

That man in the mirror defeating him

Maybe sometimes should agree with him

At the end of the day gotta sleep with him

Maybe should watch how I’m treating him

I swear sometimes I’m starting to see a lil Marqui Rasheed in him

I’m seeing ‘em live out my dreams, feeling very vicarious

I wanna drop too, I want my props too

Temptation is doing it my way and ignoring how God moves

All of these musical years of writing led to a cubicle spending my time in

Feeling like I should be further along

All I got to show for it is verses and songs

It’s keeping me up till it’s early and dawn

Like what will I be when the curtains are drawn?

The risk, invest in yourself, Look dumb till it works

Suddenly it ain’t so silly, A milli soliloquies

Vent to myself and it’s obvious that I feel God in the audience

I hope you feel me,I know you hear me, Make sure I live and die as just the real me

Make sure I’m still me when you reveal me To the world and know I couldn’t conceal these words

The urge to burst through the surface with these verses