Negotiations

By Wale

On Self Promotion

Released on April 6, 2018

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[Intro]

Cash Mohammed, McGreggor Conor, Folarin


[Verse 1]

Yeah, mind racin', negotiatin' my situation

I burned bridges I can't repair so been fly lately

I've been peddlin' rhymes so much my calves hurt

Fly pelican fly, Tony Montana work

Yeah I'm comfortable, tell my other label I love 'em

Create a record, collect a check, take my name from it

The face on that plain Jane can replace budgets

Princess cutter shoe pop singers that can't cut it

The ghostwritin', both pockets is pulsatin'

For the reign of power, I'll put you with Raina fifth season

These niggas streamin' they shit, they weak but they entertainin'

Don't ever confuse being great with being famous

I'm that nigga fa'sho, I'm that nigga fa'sho

Some of you niggas was humble with me, look how you switch up

Look how they talk to you different like you ain't better than them

You niggas go up in Ellen, forget your Melanin quick

Niggas need a new legend, the people never forget

I mean a rebel that take the Devil on one-on-one

And pray a lot with God, well now his confidence in a gun

I know a lot of rappers who spot 'em after I take it from 'em

So whoever doubt me gone need a balcony and a jump


[Interlude]

Look at me! You see this motherfuckin' face?

You remember this motherfuckin' face

Cause you don't never want to meet a motherfucker like me

You understand?


[Verse 2]

Mind racin', negotiatin' my situation

I'm bad business, the rap industry thinks I'm crazy

The gatekeepers, they hate me, say I'm militant

Really​ niggas don't feel you unless you doin' that nigga shit

No Folarin, never change never give up your soul Folarin

And do your thing 'cause you givin' 'em hope Folarin

You know they say they only love you when broke or dead

But I can't count on that and I'm in my ghoster car

Nigga done wrote some bars

My shit is boastful, always for the culture

Got on by my lonesome, you Sofia Coppola

Y'all might be dope but you on cause you know somebody

Uh, yo, my opposition ain't no competition

What you call a booth I call a kitchen, I'm fryin' different

Eyes lower than Shyne numbers

But my vision God-level cause I focus every four bifocals

Sixteens is unmatched

Pistols in y'all hand like Brita, they untapped

Bitter niggas be reckless, they disrespectful and envious

And so you niggas is breakfast, where Desus and Mero at?

Margiela apparel, what Virgil say he ain't sent me

This shit was a retail so don't check where my check is at

Ain't playin' with little niggas cause I ain't with tit for tat

But throwin' subliminals make your woman a widow fast and then I dash

Jerry Lorenzo, I'm finna blow a bag now

2007, the rappers had no swag now

All of these niggas Supreme, nothing is different with me

When I played receiver, I perfected the fly route

Highly respected, tell these labels I'm iced out

I'm feelin' like Beckham, I tell them let the price out

I'm lyrically celibate, any status y'all want

Motherfuckers ain't fuckin' with a nigga from Nige'

Woo, yeah, Baba Folarin

Untapped potential but still tap your woman

Yo, yeah, okay, Baba Folarin

My side just might tax you like Mike Rotunda

Ayo, yeah, I never fumble

A Betty Lennox in a Bentley with the Helly on me

Bammas think I'm with the locals, come on, tell me something

Dreadhead get scoped and soaked 'til it's Shelly color

Woo, heh, that's the MC

DMV about to peak, it ain't just me

I dare seven niggas step to me, OC

Sleep, how they peeps at a wake for the whole week

Funeral crowd, keep runnin' your mouth, nigga

The reaper within your reach, you keep reachin' for clout

Cloud of mine, I'm high, I'm tired, I'm tried, I tried

Goodbye my love, the fourth time's a charm, I'm signed

Heh, or nah (Olu)