Up Late

Yeah

Uh huh

I'm up late

You late on the uptake

I texted my best friend

Guess they phone ain't update

Grandma was upstate

Ain't never see her enough

Guess when you're living your life

You forget what you're giving up

I've been fishing in waters

With bottoms I'll never touch

Hoping to God that I don't

Hate what I'm reeling up

Cycles of trauma left wounds

Never been healing up

Your demons are in the room

Hope that you been shielding up

I'm coasting the updraft

Enjoy the breeze

The ground comes up fast

I'm upping the contrast

That mean it's black wherever I'm up at

I spent all these years just swimming upstream

Told bro I want a career; I ain't tryna up streams

I got too many morals that's been hard to uphold

Can't settle for bronze or silver when I'm holding up gold, nigga

I think I grew up too old

I took the re-up I'm owed

Ain't tryna be up

'Cause to be up

Makes them niggas unload

And I ain't speaking in code

I was up tryna upload

When I was down, way down

From where up wasn't known, nigga

Where they might bury your bones

Right up under your home, nigga

Yet and still

The one they look up to

Damn

Yet and still

I'm up tryna cut through

Damn

Y'all really cracking me up

How you praying for my soul

But you ain't backing me up?

Yeah, the acting is up

And big ups to my niggas

That's forever, truly

Know they back me up

When shit gets too unruly

Fuck ya doing

'Cause me?

I'm keeping my head up

Been keeping my bread up

You know how this shit goes