Shadowman's Interlude

Acknowledgment or expression of attention

Admission of not living life as one should

Rhetorical question on the choice between stubbornness and making life easier

Encouragement to face challenges directly

Observation on repeating negative patterns

Metaphorical reference to dealing with challenges akin to handling fish and water

Assertion that familiarity doesn't determine outcomes

Metaphor about the inevitability of facing consequences (shadow)

Reiteration of the idea that consequences will catch up eventually

One day it's gon' catch you

Expression of determination to confront challenges

Narrative about personal experiences, relationships, and decisions

Bad bitch she gon' let me hit, no Ken Griffey

Mad G how she sucking, no I-N-timacy

I ain't had to have no Fear of God pants

To get rid of the Vicky's

Poof mixing up the goose in the hand

Got bird bitches on my line, because they seen me in the coupe with my mans

Usually incognito, my ego get a boost from the gram

So I had to cut the top off, like man we used to be friends

Reflection on changing social circles, challenges in saying no, and self-awareness

I'm just a man, it's getting hard saying no to all these hoes these days

It's hard to tell a friend or foe these days

Ain't nobody telling me no

So it's kinda hard to know these days

Reference to musical harmony and comparison to influential figures (MLK, Trayvon)

We singing the same song

I'm Martin Luther King and Trayvon

Reflection on life choices, career shifts, and trusting the timing of life

Just in case I get Marshawn Lynch'd cause I ain't forget where I came from

My brain be on two different mission that shit be crazy dawg

See I got all of this talent but I be lazy dawg

And I be going back and forth in my head

I probably still be up at my old job if they ain't laid me off

Emphasis on patience, caution about envy, and hindsight

Meanwhile I shifted my mental, I got my mind right

Niggas that see the God in me, envy I got some advice

Watch those who turn green, when you in the limelight

Play on words (2020 vision), reflection on the past, and coping mechanisms

All 2020 I spend my past

Like becoming one with the Henny liquor all of my things

It help me take the mask off

When I'm sober I'm Bane

Ironic when the bottle is empty is when I pour out my pain

Observations on changing relationships, self-blame, and acceptance

And tell me who am I to judge now

Just cause my surroundings done changed

They got kids to feed

So come through flexing rocking that chain and that Fendi

He robbing Fendi, he got love on the brain

Lot of niggas be out here bugging get a slug on the brain

I remember when me and you shared a brain

But as of lately it's different, I can't explain

All I'm knowing is the love ain't the same

But who's to blame for everything that done changed, me?

Acceptance of challenges, counting blessings, and valuing lessons

With tryna' make it off the block like playing Tetris

Part the questions, I can't entertain them thoughts

It's what you say counting blessings

We might have come up with less but it was worth it for the lessons

Exclamation expressing strong emotion

Anecdote about a bizarre incident with a box containing human toes

We going 20 East

We see a car at the end, you know what I'm saying in the highway

You know what I'm saying, it's a truck with a box on the end of it right

The box falls off the end, and it slides up under the car and shit

Right, this shit really, shit really insane

The box slide up under the car right so we pullover

Like what the fuck going on

But the box, simple box right?

The box got a lock on it, so we break the locks and shit right

We open up, it's human toes in that bitch

Like legit human toes, bro

(Nigga like walking toes?)

Like human toes, bro

(What the fuck? wha-what)

My own dudes is like, "Let's call the police"

I was like, "Fuck that shit, let's call a Tow Truck"

I'm tryna smoke whatever that nigga is smoking

Casual remark about rolling another joint

Ay roll up another spliff