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Mmm… make a plan, make a plan, yeah

When you try to make a plan, that's when God laughs
Try to follow your path usin' the wrong map
It can be scary, beware, you can get lost fast
He can carry you there, you gotta walk back

God laughs at your plans if you haven't noticed
That's the folly of man, we can't grasp the notion
That we follow the path that his hand has chosen
He sets your path in motion and you can't control it

Growin' up I seen the struggle breed ugly scenes
Lunch meat and TV dinners were a luxury
I wonder if my mother had other dreams
Two jobs to make sure my sister and my brother eat
And she didn't get paid for another week
The money she makes is too much to get the lunch for free (What!?)
That's something that always stuck with me
Like the fact that drug money bought your son these jeans
Nothing's free it seems except these hand me downs
Addiction runnin' deep in these genes that you handed down
It's tragic how people I sat around can't stand me now
I'm the black sheep, I can't seem to make my family proud
I was a bad student, no cap and gown
I always had music, never had a doubt
With my background, my Future wasn't Grammy bound
Like Pluto, I planet out; that's what God laughs about

When you try to make a plan, that's when God laughs
Try to follow your path usin' the wrong map
It can be scary, beware, you can get lost fast
He can carry you there, you gotta walk back

God laughs at your plans if you haven't noticed
That's the folly of man, we can't grasp the notion
That we follow the path that his hand has chosen
He sets your path in motion and you can't control it

It's cold in these heartless streets, I know to keep a scarf with me
Sometimes you need to spark the heat when it's either starve or eat
Frozen but my heart still beats, Covid made it hard to breathe
I can feel the blues in my soul like some R&B
I grew up on that Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
My role models sold drugs like a pharmacy
It feels like I gotta keep a gun in the car with me
To be safe, just in case someone try to martyr me
As a teen I craved a method to release the pain
Obsession in my DNA, depression made me sleep for days
You could see the change reflected in my GPA
Blood and sweat mixed on my necklace and Adidas chain
I'll ink it on my flesh so the message can never be erased
From the second we were born, we were DOA
Get on my knees and pray and let the Lord lead the way
If I gotta fall on my sword, I'ma be okay

When you try to make a plan, that's when God laughs
Try to follow your path usin' the wrong map
It can be scary, beware, you can get lost fast
He can carry you there, you gotta walk back

God laughs at your plans if you haven't noticed
That's the folly of man, we can't grasp the notion
That we follow the path that his hand has chosen
He sets your path in motion and you can't control it

God laughs at your plans if you haven't noticed
As I stand there broken, I hope he grants atonement

God laughs at your plans if you haven't noticed
As I stand there broken, I hope he grants atonement

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from Feast or Famine (The Second Helping Deluxe Edition), released September 20, 2022

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A Rapper Named Nati Three Rivers, Michigan

Three Rivers, MI, based hip-hop artist A Rapper Named Nati has been penning rhymes since 1996. He met Dutch producer Rob Maestro in high school, circa 2004. Fifteen years later, the pair have been anointed Self-Proclaimed Kings. (Pronounced “notty.”)

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