Family Ties.

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Family Ties.

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I keep the family so close to meCan’t fuck with bitches emotionally24 for 8 like it’s Kobe8 in my hand bitch Frobe

House of a broken home I hear daddy ain’t shitHe’s on the phone on the way saying moms a bitchI’m in the room at 9 plotting how to get richI got my ass whooped too cause my sister snitched

I gotta keep it close too cause the life we liveThey say we all come in two cause we bound for shit

Are they bound for youAre they bound for himAre they bound for her

I know some people in the back can’t ride with hearseI know some people that’s lying said they heard it firstAnd my unc just told me put the family firstAnd I respond back and I know it first

Like mhm mhmm

I keep the family so close to meAnd sometimes I feel like I don’t do enoughAnd that’s the life we live and that shit is tuff

Like Mhmm mhmm

And I keep the family soAnd I keep the family soI keep the family so

Mhmm mhmm

I was on white women GrandeThey said I can’t sing I dropped PompeiiNiggas ain’t here call it parlayI’m proved the wrong like what’s next ye

And this that all we got what we here forNiggas just capping and faking what we hear forThey said how you even know that nigga, I said that’s been broNow shit is going down like it’s limbo

How these niggas Change on the family

I just might hit on Natasha in LondonWhat Travis said? What it is bitch it’s 10’4I just copped a sweater and it’s pink call it pepto

Now go back give it to my team that’s my fam thoughThat’s my fam thoughI keep the family closeKeep the family close

Like Mhmm mhmm

I keep the family so close to meAnd sometimes I feel like I don’t do enoughAnd that’s the life we live and that shit is tuff

Like Mhm mhmm

And I keep the family soAnd I keep the family soI keep the family so

Mhmm mhmm

How can they not love the family?How can they not love the family?How can they not love the family?

Man this shit is uncanny

How can they not love the familyNiggas undercover like randyGot the Goldlink on with the some girlFuck that Goldlink with the crew girl

Gold links on me she said she know the homieShe took the ring off she want the alimonyShe took him to court she want the alimonyNot the child support she want the alimony

And that is the sum of that familyNot my familyNot yo family, not his familyThat is the sum of the familyAlways got me like

Like mhmm mhmm

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Kobe Bryant

Kobe wore 8 for his first ten seasons with the Lakers and 24 for his last ten, and both numbers are retired. Together they make 24/8, a day more than around the clock, which is how much he's there for his family. Frobe is young Kobe, with the afro he had back when he wore 8.

The storyLines 5 to 8

He opens on the house he grew up in: two parents at odds, him at nine already scheming about money, a sibling getting him in trouble. He tells it plainly and with a little humor, which makes it hit harder.

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A twist on ride or die. Some people won't ride with you all the way to the end, the hearse.

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The hook is the center of the song: holding his family tight, and the worry that he's falling short for them. He doesn't settle it. He just names it as part of life.

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Ariana Grande

The pop singer, named by her last name.

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Pompeii is one of his own songs, a single that's out on streaming. When people said he couldn't sing, he put it out.

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The London

Young Thug's 2019 song with J. Cole, named for a hotel in West Hollywood, with Travis Scott singing the hook. London in one line and Travis in the next point at it. 10-4 is radio code for message received.

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Pepto-Bismol

The bright pink stomach medicine. His new sweater is the same shade.

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Randy Cunningham

The hero of Disney XD's Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja, a freshman who's secretly his town's ninja. People acting undercover are like him.

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GoldLink

The Washington, D.C. artist whose 2017 album At What Cost includes the two songs named here, one of them his biggest hit. Then his name turns into the gold chain links he's wearing.

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The last verse widens from his own home to a marriage ending in court, where the fight is over money, not the kids. Then he steps back and says this is how families come apart in general, nobody's in particular.