Rise Rashid - Dear Rise lyrics

I'm starting with that man in the mirror I took my hands to wipe it off and see that man clearer Fully bearded I'm looking like my big brother's spirit Fair skin and my hair's did when I pull and pin it I will admit it yo, you one handsome fella But yo I'm looking below the surface and yo I'm seeing Thriller You know read all your verses but yo I think you're iller Maybe If you kept it realer some of these folks would feel ya So I'm taking off the filter Ayo Mal, remember rapping back in high school You thought you was aight, I you really wasn't that nice dude Thinking you bout make it and be up in them bright lights soon Spending all of your time writing rhymes giving your life to This sh**, you should've been praying day and going to night school But you was hard headed and never letting that advice thru You had to learn the hard way, paying the full price due Falling for them curve balls that life thru thats strike 2 You was confusing love with lust, thinking that meant they like you F***ing up with trust and luck and letting that s**t excite you Going thru it facing the music gave you something to write to You came back improved but still wasn't that nice fool I remember it well, you parallel to hell Depression started to settle in You was dwelling feeling you failed Trying to keep it quiet but inside you wanted to yell Running telling your wife k**ing yourself would probably help, damn Ayo let's Keep it real, you was a b**ch for that You wasn't meant for that, that whole s**t was wack That's why they took your whip, right before they took your crib And You was looking stupid you was clueless looking shook as s**t We hit the bottom between a rock and a hard place And when them akhis turned against you it left sour taste Talking bout when it went down you took a coward's place They said that s**t behind your back but never to your face Look at your face and see the scars from the shingles When I almost went blind I crying I couldn't see you Remember the times I ain't even wanna be you Now between me and you there's nobody that's equal, yo I'm Talking to that man in the mirror, I took my hands to wipe it off to see that man clearer A couple grays in my beard I'm like my Daddy's spirit Married and happy here, Sharing these savvy lyrics, apparently Daddy hears it Tear in my eyes but I, know that's a tear of joy I got the same smile you got now looking at your boy On every stage and every track I made that I destroy I say we made it cuz my face in places they enjoy Seeing, read em and weep defeated foes Razor blade between my brows and tweezers in my nose Stepping back and pose, checking out my clothes Please at what I'm seeing the reason being, heaven knows One of the flyest even without a stylist I stand as a straight up man, never spineless I opened up my eye lids, and I'm probably being bias But in Virginia I'm your highness and one of Carolinas finest I am Rise