Love Me Nina / Semiautomatic - Wale

And to me, we have a culture that, uh, is surpassed by, by, by, by no other

civilization, but we don’t know anything about it.

So again, I think I’ve said this before in this same interview

I think, my, my job is to somehow make them curious enough

Or persuade them by hook or crook

To get more aware of themselves and where they came from

And what they are into and what is already there

And just to bring it out.

This is what compels me to compel them

And I will do it by whatever means necessary.

Detroit red flow

East coast, west coast

Used to leave MoCo to hit Ledroit with Bo

I dated women with poppin' albums, they got spouses

I dated strippers that trap loud inside they Challengers

To be black and talented, all I’ve ever been

Took a tour de France while my partners was somewhere peddling

Yeah, we make depression look so effortless

We desensitize while America tryna kill our kids

So it’s weighin' on me, Nina

It’s weighin' on me, Nina

They playin' with me, Nina

Send 'em on they way to meet ya

Look at my skin, look at my nose, I’m grateful for my features

Like I made a CD with Mrs. Knowles and ain’t pay a G

I’m on my way to GA, magazine in the BM

Imagine the nazis see me, a MAGA hat he can bleed in

Nina, we just wanna be black and legendary

Be us and be proud by any means necessary

Nina got me feeling like I never have to walk alone, Nina

Nina got me feeling like I never have to walk alone, Nina

Yo, yo

They playin' with me, Nina

You stayin' with me, Nina

They hatin' on me, Nina

Send 'em on they way to meet ya

I misunderstood

Under your spell, perhaps

Ain’t no lookin' back

Young, gifted, black

Everybody avoids everybody, all over the place

In most situations, most all of the time

I know, I’m one of those everybodys

Yeah, a semi-automatic

A scatterbrain, I’m shooting out of aim

Since I’ve been famous, it’s hard for me to hit up a target

I’m sorry, I was humble on all them red carpets

I got embarrassed, GRAMMYs carried me for Sandra Bullock

Photo ops the paparazzi was opting out of

Was doing drops for jockeys that ain’t bother my album

Telling me you honestly the best nigga

Though I believe that you one welling-ass nigga

How many niggas with jobs feel like they underpaid?

Let’s say it’s that, plus you rhyme and 'bout to have a baby

Let’s say they calling you bipolar

Not feeling you, your rhymes legend, but personality complicated

Shoot at whoever, that’s your only defense

Had a job, you was poppin', now you lonely as shit

Mental blocks, every shot was harder than before

Like bootleg shoppers, see, I was rockin' my label wrong

But I digress 'cause this isn’t that song

This just my plight, I am no different than y’all

Speak to your boss, me, I speak in these songs

I speak how I feel, I feel like a gun

Yeah, a semi-auto with a novice aim, uh

A lot of thoughts and a lot of pain, yeah

My ammunition come from all your hate

My brain a loaded semi, I’m too offended to concentrate, yeah

Everybody gets sprayed, nigga

Ayy, move, get out the way, nigga, yeah

Under the surface, we the same nigga

But my aim different, I’m way too brilliant to shank niggas, yeah

Everybody gets sprayed, nigga

Move, get out the way, nigga, yeah

Under the surface, we the same nigga

I got that loaded semi that stain cement and paint pictures