Bad Habit
Breaking Free: Confronting Bad Habits
Lyrics
Put the blunt down
Encouraging to stop smoking marijuana.
Pick Your life up
Emphasizing the importance of taking control of one's life.
Put the blunt down
Repetition for emphasis on putting the blunt down and picking life up.
Pick your life up
-Put the blunt down
-Pick your life up
-Put the blunt down
-(Bassman Beat)
-Pick your life up
Continuing the call to focus on life and expressing indifference.
Don't give a fuck
Asserting a lack of concern or care.
Fuck society
Rejecting societal norms or expectations.
As a child i looked up
Reflecting on childhood admiration for society, contrasted with disappointment in adulthood.
To it
-But growing up
-Adults are horrible
-Life kills I'm just tryna
Acknowledging the challenges of life and the desire to live despite them.
Live
-There you have it
Summarizing the acknowledgment of life's difficulties.
That's my bad habit
Describing life's challenges as a "bad habit" that is difficult to break.
Fucking bad habit
-Shit is bad habit
-There you have it
-That's my bad habit
-Fucking bad habit
-Shit is bad habit
-Don't give a fuck
Reiterating indifference and expressing a connection between breathing smoke and oxygen.
Fuck your Ovaries
-I breath on smoke
-I breath on Oxygen
-I died alot
Referencing personal struggles and facing challenges, including a relationship gone wrong.
Won't let it bury me
-My dream girl gone
-Give me STD
-First son of the Family
Describing the speaker's position as the first son and the responsibilities on their shoulders.
And my tiny shoulders bears
-A lot of responsibilities.
-Then it occurred to me
Expressing the realization of the speaker's role in liberating the family and continuing the father's legacy.
That am the one who's
-Gone get the key
-To liberate the family
-Together with the relatives
-The exact way my father did
-The figure of a philanthropist
Aspiring to be a positive influence on the sister's children.
Be a great uncle to my sister's Kids
-Though I am facing a lot of Challenges and obstacles
Acknowledging current challenges and obstacles faced.
That moment i came out from
Reflecting on challenges emerging after leaving school.
School
-My dream started closing in
-This no be Hip-hop
Expressing dissatisfaction with the music environment and switching to pidgin English.
Environment
-Then i come switch go pidgin English
-Been real no be an advantage
Discussing the challenges of making authentic music in Nigeria's music industry.
Coz i was spitting too much Sense
-Yet i wasn't making sales
-Making music for myself
-And friends
-Naija with their kind of brain
-Wey only pop music dey Entertain
-I no fit dey make dumb music
-In the name of going
Rejecting the idea of compromising artistic integrity for commercial success.
Commercial but
-Fuck that shit!
-I need ascertain my financial
Highlighting the need for financial independence to pursue music goals.
Independence
-Need money to record,
-Shoot some videos and host
-Concerts
-When I'm fully blown
Committing to returning and establishing the speaker's brand after achieving success.
I promise to bring back
-My brand in
-Brethrens, I'm sorry to
Expressing regret and failure in the hip-hop genre, feeling ignored by the culture.
Say this i failed Hip-hop
-The culture ignored
-Your favorite rapper
-Betrayed Hip-hop
-His flows were sick
Reflecting on the betrayal of hip-hop and the shift to Afro pop, possibly for commercial success.
And then he died and
-Buried himself in Afro pop!
-(That shit was hot)
Reflecting on the success of the transition despite personal conflict.
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