Life is Verses

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Life is Verses

SyWavy

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I started to feel likeNiggas don't know how I really am orWomen in general like how I carry myself, how I am as a personI just wanna say that

I'm the Shundor, pretty nigga what you don't get itSmoking strong call it Popeye, I'm chiefing spinachHad to leave go M.I.A Khalifa with itFriday, on my twist, Felicia with itRemember some days, Jersey on acheiva with itShe want a trip to Miami, Caresha livingNext month she want Vegas, stunna trippingNext month she want Vegas, stunna tripping

My Life is full of VersesI wrote this shit in cursiveI dropped the pen in furnaceNow will you care it's urgentMy Life is full of VersesI wrote this shit in cursiveI dropped the pen in furnaceNow will you care it's urgent

Whitewashed black bitch told me not to make thisI'm sorry she confused need Marcus GarveyTwo-faced dent up on her, her face is HarveyAnd I peeped it hands up this shits malarkeyI'm working down the stretch but not pilatesAnd she's mine, beautiful to her, BazziAlways saying Mashallah I'm never cockyI know sinned Astaghfirullah, I'm sorry mommyI can see us Inshallah I don't pray off bodiesYeah Inshallah one day you can see us together, you knowProbably gon write a letter to itIt's probably gon' be likeMy Dear, but hold on stopDear Wavy, but this isn't venison andI just want you with me I'm not menacing andI feel like my drug is probably your medicine andJust listen to meCause the same bitch from last week wouldn't even listen to meI cried last night on the phone you ain't hear from meBut, you ain't hear it from me

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Shundor

Bengali for beautiful, and one of the names he calls himself. The rest of the line translates it.

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Popeye

The sailor cartoon who gets his strength from spinach. Strong is slang for potent weed, and spinach stands in for what he's smoking.

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Mia Khalifa

Going M.I.A. means disappearing, and with Khalifa after it the letters spell Mia Khalifa, the internet personality who first got famous for adult films.

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Friday

The 1995 Ice Cube and Chris Tucker comedy, home of the famous goodbye to Felicia. He sends someone off the same way.

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Achieva Credit Union

The credit union based in Dunedin, near St. Pete. Its name was on the soccer jersey he wore as a kid.

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Yung Miami

The City Girls rapper from Miami, whose real first name is Caresha. A Miami trip puts her name and her city in one line.

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Stunna 4 Vegas

The North Carolina rapper who came up with DaBaby and signed to his label. Vegas and stunna in one line put his name together backward.

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The hook explains the title. He describes a life written out longhand, then the pen tossed into a fire so nothing gets rewritten. He ends by asking whether that makes it matter to anyone.

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Care and urgent turned around make urgent care, the walk-in clinic.

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Marcus Garvey

The Jamaican-born leader of the 1920s Back to Africa movement and a lasting symbol of Black pride. He prescribes him for someone who's lost touch with her roots.

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Two-Face

Batman's villain Harvey Dent, the district attorney with half his face scarred. His names are spread across the line in pieces.

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The home stretch is the last part of a race or a season, where the work counts most. Pilates is the other kind of stretching, and that's not the one he means.

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Bazzi

The Michigan singer whose 2018 hit Beautiful was remixed with Camila Cabello. He names the song and then the singer.

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Mashallah

Arabic for what God has willed, said to admire something good while giving the credit away. He pairs it with staying humble.

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Astaghfirullah

Arabic for I seek forgiveness from God, said after a mistake. He follows it with an apology to his mother.

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Inshallah

Arabic for if God wills it, said about anything hoped for in the future. He uses it about a future with her.

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The verse turns into a letter he keeps restarting until he addresses it to himself, and he catches the dear and deer pun on the way. It ends on a late-night phone call where he let his guard down and nobody heard it.

Life is Verses