[00:13.910]It's been a long ride but I made it here with love
[00:22.980]I made it here with love love
[00:29.170]Said I've been and up and down and
[00:31.190]I've been through it all
[00:35.440]Took a while to know my heart
[00:39.160]Oh yes it did yeah
[00:44.180]Before love like this you go
[00:47.510]Through the fire and valley lows
[00:50.520]But if you just hold on
[00:53.810]Please hold on 'cause love is strong it'll save yah
[00:57.570]Oh please hold on it'll save yah save yah
[01:14.940]Truth can be the sweetest pain
[01:17.890]It can mess up everything
[01:21.020]It's the only way you know
[01:23.360]I'm payin' for it I'm changin' for it
[01:27.080]Oh oh and it hurts
[01:30.010]But I'll make it work
[01:33.130]'Cause I'm no beginner
[01:35.110]I'm a winner paid dues I know my purpose
[01:39.790]Thought they'd put my life on hold
[01:42.300]But I knew somethin' they didn't know
[01:45.270]I know myself too much to ever fold
[01:48.290]Dark clouds are movin' past you
[01:50.960]Oh you gotta love yourself
[01:54.290]If you really wanna be with someone else
[01:57.770]You gotta feed yourself
[02:00.530]Before you feed somebody else
[02:03.560]You gotta stay open and don't be foolish
[02:06.640]'Cause everybody don't mean you well
[02:10.060]You gotta love yourself
[02:13.080]Before you love somebody else
[02:15.900]Yeah gotta love yourself
[02:23.560]Uh I'm sayin'?
[02:26.740]I decided not to use my color as a handicap
[02:30.320]He a designer artist producer and he rap
[02:33.040]Never found virtue from patience
[02:34.790]In a dark room just pacin'
[02:36.360]Precious time is just wastin'
[02:37.870]You do not know what we facin'
[02:39.370]I cannot be complacent
[02:40.780]In my job be courageous
[02:42.330]Another kid just got shot
[02:43.800]They can't find the assailant
[02:45.410]Made it out of the basement
[02:46.860]Made it out of the underground
[02:48.470]From a time where you outta town
[02:50.080]They might gun you down blaow
[02:51.510]There goes another round blaow
[02:52.980]There goes another round
[02:54.520]Came from the Chi and wow look what the **** they found
[02:57.630]A young legend comin' to shut the summer down
[03:00.340]You need to talk to me like you
[03:02.060]Don't when your mother 'round
[03:03.920]Oh you gotta love yourself oh yeah
[03:07.290]If you really wanna be with someone else
[03:10.720]You gotta feed yourself
[03:13.470]Before you feed somebody else
[03:16.510]You gotta stay open and don't be foolish
[03:19.580]'Cause everybody don't mean you well
[03:22.900]You gotta love yourself
[03:24.670]You gotta love yourself
[03:26.080]Before you love somebody else
[03:28.590]I don't feel no one's time
[03:31.590]Can't get restless in the soul
[03:34.630]Hold your heart the world is cold
[03:36.940]Keep singin' don't you stop prayin' woman
[03:40.770]Yeah it will come to pass
[03:43.770]Don't worry 'bout nothin'
[03:46.620]God knows that you're worth it
[03:48.790]You deserve it can't nothin' else hurt you
[03:53.520]Thought they'd put my life on hold
[03:56.160]But I knew somethin' they didn't know
[03:58.990]I know myself too much to ever fold
[04:01.950]Dark clouds are movin' past you
[04:04.630]Oh you gotta love yourself oh yeah
[04:07.960]If you really wanna be with someone else
[04:11.500]You gotta feed yourself
[04:14.220]Before you feed somebody else
[04:17.270]You gotta stay open and don't be foolish
[04:20.340]'Cause everybody don't mean you well
[04:23.720]You gotta love yourself
[04:25.380]You gotta love yourself
[04:26.930]Before you love somebody else
[04:28.750]Somebody else