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Understood

from Pieces of a Man by Mick Jenkins

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Pull up, puffin' on the indo
Chevy sitting up on Lorenzo's
Old head hit me with the head nod
Understood a ni**a like ten four
Ten four, ten four, ten four
Ten four, ten four, ten four
Old head hit me with the head nod
Understood a ni**a like

Deep conversations about language, which one you speak?
A lot of ni***s claim bilingual, lie through their teeth
Tryna talk money, it's on the tip of they tongue
You know the feeling when the word's just outside your reach?
Take a few steps in you outside your territory
Make em lean back like Terror Squad when you're telling stories
Or even like you got the ac'(activis) in ya
So many different vernacular perspectives and points
Went from selecting electives, to collecting the coins
To rejecting investments, to connecting with legends
And stressing acceptance
To fuck it I write with my left, I'm finessing this joint with my right
To bring the light, like a key on a kite
The rolling thunder make them pee on they self
I see the fire, I've been drinking Freon
I'm on the corner feel like Deon, with these Cowboys
Don't speak snake with these Malfoys though
No sweat on my towel boy flow
Brought the funk like an outhouse
The bumps like a bounce house
And spit like the beatbox the heat rock the Pete Rock Headnod'

Pull up, puffin' on the indo
Chevy sitting up on the Lorenzo''s
Old head hit me with the head nod
Understood a ni**a like ten four
Ten four, ten four, ten four
Ten four, ten four, ten four
Old head hit me with the head nod
Understood a ni**a like

Verse 2
We say a lot to say a little
And sometimes we say the most when we really ain't saying shit at all
Cotton mouth, I swear I spit it all
I spit it all on the paper, I'm twisting all of this paper
I'm spending all of this paper for retail therapy
Brim low, they can still tell it's me
They say they want the kid in Tel a Vive
And what that tell the world?
I know you're smelling me
My fingers recently wrestled the evergreen
Been 100 Proof, the message is Everclear
Speaking for the crew, I'm playing Mrs. Everdeen
Peculiar?
Yeah I study Ms. Peregrine, my pedigree?
Duke Nukem, yo Eukanuba just let it be
Falling out of harmony, we singing different melodies
Really ain't spoke the same language in a long time
Both like to claim it's just only cause the different latitude
Long lines at shows got me distant with my attitude
A matador, I know you're mad at me I ain't even mad at you

Aye, Pull up, puffin' on the indo
Chevy sitting up on the Lorenzo's
Old head hit me with the head nod
Understood a ni**a like ten four
Ten four, ten four, ten four
Ten four, ten four, ten four
Old head hit me with the head nod
Understood a ni**a like

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from Pieces of a Man, released October 26, 2018
written and performed by mick jenkins
produced by kaytranada and alexander sowinski

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Mick Jenkins Chicago, Illinois

Mick Jenkins’ writing is rich with hard-won perspective and dotted with impressively specific, naturalistic details. But on a thematic level, it digs deeper than the here and now, the bus stop in front of him, the string of tour dates looming ahead. His music explores things that humans feel on an intuitive level but struggle to fully understand. ... more

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