Verse 1:

Here we go, there’s another post

For my sticky soul

Gimmie, smoke

Ego feed it, no

Gotta knock the lows

Pivot step, doubt is on my left

Praise is on my right

Running wreck lemme catch a breathe

Then I’m outta site

I just know, compliments ago

Nigga still was dope

Pusha past, verbiage shoot the hash

Tagging with the grammar

I be sad, algorithms trash

Socials in a stammer

Know it’s vain, pull me out the game

Matrix get the dagger, ugh

Putting in work to be timeless

I gotta, I gotta, I gotta

Give em the greatest no matter my climate

But it gets colder when you keep on rising in levels

And God is the pilot

So you keep searching the waters & fishing for compliments

Even if bias, then gets tideless, uh//

You can say it if you want

Cause I won’t ask you for it

My circle give me the critiques so I can stay in orbit (whoa !)

No, I can’t live off the hype

I gotta find it inside

Keep it in sight, hoping I like what find

Hoping I love what I find

Chorus *2:

Validation (validation)

I don’t need your validation (validation)

I don’t need your — whoa! (validation)

Compliments appreciated

But I don’t need your validation

Verse 2:

Been over insecure

Issa Rae but missing more

Cause I leave my gifted core

Disappear to reinsure, private place is in my head

Memories I had to store

When the doubt becomes allure

I remember what they said

If your motivation, applause dawg

It’s all off, take a moment think of your cause boss

The long haul

Speak on stressing over the call laws

That’s small talk, dodge the heart attacks

With your guard on, that spar chalk

And as I reflect

Your opinions decked

Need a Percocet, circumspect

Always need a check, marking your respect

Gimmie space, moving out your way

Dodging every day, my mistake

I just need my peace, never need the fray

I don’t chase, comments for the sake

Of approval, they tend to fade

Sometimes even sway, on the rainy days -- aye

I forget my purpose and I lose the vision

But then I focus on the value that my soul was given