New Flower! (feat. Leon Thomas)

You've grown yourself a flower

In the garden

See I was like 18

With nothing to my name but overdraft fees

Jealous of the rich, trynna get cheese

Cause I always knew this life wasn't no breeze

And my purpose, like Amerie it was one thing

But where I'm from they called it a "farfetched dream"

Cause baba don't believe in a sure thing

But now he do, cause my wrist like the west wing (Prezi!)

I had to grow my garden

Planted the seeds, but I was faint hearted

The courage it took to get this shit started

Meant a new flower had to get sprawling

All my friends was having college fun

Me? I didn't have the college funds

In my head's where I be at

Couldn't let the petals die just for a Fiat

Believe that!

You've grown yourself a flower

In the garden

Look

I was on 145th & St. Nick

Taking that A-train down to the mix

Complex wasn't really paying me shit

And Def Jam had me getting sandwiches

Got one for Big Sean but at least he tipped

At that 20 saved my life that week

In New York but I feeling Memphis Bleek

I was eating plain rice and I'm far from cheap nigga

Bury me before I'm a burden

DIY till my conscious certain

But the Garden can't grow if it ain't got purpose (True)

Caring for this seed since 2014

I've been watering this motherfucker every damn week

I didn't know where i'd be at

Growth came slow but it bloomed now we see that, believe that!

You've grown yourself a flower

In the garden

I used to do gardening

It's grandpa Aminé

He forced you to plant

And keep it maintenance and everything

So after he come from school then he go to the garden

Maintaining it, giving it water, uh stuff like that

This is how I grew up

And when the sun hits your skin

I hope you know you belong where you've been

And we'll grow that's fasho

But in the end we will be back in the ground

Once again

Yeah, look

We all want success

But can you grow up more with less?

Cause money changed everything, I see the effects

Life time friends think I think of them less (No nigga)

I am depressed

If people don't like me, then I don't get a check

Which means both my parents are staying in debt

And I prefer to be the only one that carries the stress

Shit, if I'd never got rich, maybe Sunset wouldn't have me sick

Cause that crash almost toe tagged my sis

Is it my fault that she even had that risk?

But fuck what I can't control

The best advice I get from myself alone

And after all that Portland rain is combined

All I need is 13 months of Sunshine

And when the sun hits your skin

I hope you know you belong where you've been

And we'll grow that's fasho

But in the end we will be back in the ground

Once again