don cook (rapper) - gates lyrics
[hook: rg]
let ’em all know, let ’em all know
we’re not our mistakes
letting mom know, letting mom know
we are who you raised
i know we don’t always end up on the same page
i’m not a saint but i’ll walk the gates
[verse 1: don cook]
i took a lot of time to think about this time around
and who i’m introducing to this crown on my head
i honor none of my promises, even if i’m dishonest
y’all always hop on my johnson like i’m a star or something, my mom’ll hush me i get to talking about my brother
and how i’m nothing compared to all of what he’s gotten up to, but part of coming up’s parting with
what you’re taught at younger ages
i started stuck at the base but now i’m off and running
it’s all for one, and i’m one for all in your faces
i took a bump to relate but my faith, it wasn’t on crutches
my paint, it wasn’t on brushes, i put my love in the days
and i put my trust in the pages, my rage is all but redundant, my prayers are all but reluctant
i went from f-cked-up relationships
to loving up my bank, any hesitation is money
revelations on what i’ve needed
got all these people in a shlump because of what i’m speaking
but i agree to run it
[hook: rg]
[verse 2: rg]
ever since don cook, zae, and oshea
i been making some adjustments to the way that i pray
yeah, i know i’m not perfect, i got changes to make
but i ain’t never been afraid to put my faith on display
i’m a product of lecrae, ye, lupe and andre
my mind state’s not in one place, i’m always
trying to maintain my faith in yahweh
but i’ll say, jesus walks besides me
and i’m not afraid of breaking a commandment if i have to
any rapper coming out with chatter then it’s clack-boom
d-mn dude, really rg we don’t understand you
how you see the gl-ss half-full when it’s bad news?
you just wouldn’t understand
i don’t get it either, i’m just trusting in his plan
i don’t got a reason to be tripping when i stand
cause even if i fall, i’ll be fallin’ in his hands
[hook: rg]
[verse 3: don cook]
i’ve met y’all one at a time
and so many trying to learn my nature
they call me exterminator, no snakes in my garden
don’t pardon all the mistakes i’m been making
i ain’tn started to change to station
just pop my tape in, the radio’s garbage
i’ve made it part of sundays to pay my regards to the father that beared the heaviest cross and made it so possible
for me to say my part, cause my aim isn’t set for target
since obama’s inauguration
i’ve been pacing in these hallways
talking like i’m the greatest, cause compliments aren’t as racy, i’ve been craving for starvation
cause lately, i’ve been too full of myself
i’ll take a break from this music
when you step the inside of the booth
and just spit the truth in this b-tch
instead of just proving you can’t
i pray your roof doesn’t split
cause i’m tired of using my strength
to hold y’all together, i told y’all, this isn’t it
i’m growing with my credentials
with gold inside of my pencil
your potential is a joke if i wrote your entire script
trophies inside my bedroom
my home is beside a rental
my motor resides in mental, i hold onto to what i can
loading my mind with pent-up frustration
i’m tired of staying put, just take a look around you
my made-you-look got you hating your setting
my confetti dead presidents
let it rain from the heavens
some benjamins and my pen’ll catch ’em
the pennies i’ll let you have ’em
i’m ready for steady action
y’all betting i mess around and let you finesse your sound
i’m way too petty to let you on records with me
cause ever since you set your dream to be better than me, you’ve been tested through features
several divas in your posse, i promise to seat you
you’ll steer into oncoming traffic when i pop out your speakers
[outro: don cook]
now you wonder why i’m hard to read
wanna keep christ out of my songs
i’m not trying to preach him
i know from prior experience it’s harder to reach him
and i’d be lying to myself i said i wasn’t either
see, i got rg to speak some
he spit with a verse with a purpose, now i feel like the feature
the only reason that i’m bringing up jesus
is i was raised in house where i was taught i had the freedom
to believe in whatever i wanted and for that i feel eager
to seek a whole ‘nother perspective and respond to the fever
i think i’m caught up feelings
and never truly realized i could see god as a leader
he knows i tried reading the bible and got lost in the readings and never tried picking it up cause i was not for repeating
i’m always –
knee deep in mud, and i’ve been calling for years
and i could see it when your eyes
that you ain’t stopping to care
like i give a d-mn
it’s best you not interfere cause i’ve
made up my mind for me to hop off this pier
and when you hear me hit the water, i’m too far to appear
just know i finally got it started cause i’m dropping this year
no more excuses, my music is my thoughts in your ear
so moving forward is the motion but i’m already here
you shoulda known i’d be placeholder for your song of the year
i stay reloading, toe to toe, my oldest-
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