STARS ARE BORN IN PAIRS

by Sefu

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STARS ARE BORN IN PAIRS
an album by seFu.

Executively Produced & Curated by Joseph Williams Jr.
Written by Joseph Williams Jr.
*Track 10 prod. aloisius

Special Thanks to: Jared Nelson, Artis Spiller, Issac Mapp, Brianna Coley, and Kurtez Kimble.

Recorded from Nov. 2020 - April 2021
Distributed by GAZO Sound
© ℗ seFu / GAZO Sound 2021. All rights of the producer and of the owner of the work reproduced reserved. ... more

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1.	Alton & Franklin 04:42	lyrics	buy track
I shoot my shot a lot so my form stay right Take back control over my damn life Quit that nine to five cause that ain’t life, I stayed nice I pray for the day we raid ice, the kids in cages I’m burning pages, with the same lighter I burn the sage sticks I reek of sage stench My father Christian, we remind me of Alton and Franklin Cancer ridden mother she battling stages It bother me her story finna end and I’m still turning my pages I make money with my tongue, so I ain’t ever over concerned with them wages I got accepted in my dream school and I ain’t concerned with the majors As long as I eat and fuck three times a day and night I’ll be happy and stable Two wrongs can’t even make a right I’m from the H so this is grape and the syrup isn’t maple My uncle Mario had fucking horses in stables I only seen him like twice but now he in the ground I never saw my papa and I still feel that pain by the pound, it’s astounding nigga I still feel pain by the- Had like three dollars in the tank I ain’t the type to act all good like shit don’t stink Man, how this gas but the shit don’t stink And when you down, ain’t shit around but when you eating it’s great It’s not a love scene me and she didn’t make Shoutout to Bri for holding me when it was tears in my face It’s hard being an actor in your own life everyday It’s not a black being I can’t even thank Black king, never lacking I’ll point this thing in your face I’m trying to buy my girl a pistol, maybe like a forty eight I’m leaving the state, and I’ll only feel relieved when she safe I need one too cause at times it’s like a solid being ain’t around Fucked up my ears from increasing the sound I fucked my heart and art up thinking she’d still be around I’ll feel sane when they lay my body deep and blood seep in the ground I feel this pain by the pound not an ounce or nothing They call me insane cause I ain’t never lit a strain a ounce or nothing My daddy say I make it harder for myself for fun And when the problems arise my son why you don’t run from nothing When the problems arise my son why you don’t run from nothing Cause that’s the easy thing to do And I always make it harder for myself I be closing off the world and then forgetting I got help I often burn my bridges cause I figured that my swimming would be on fucking Michael Phelps, my nigga
2.	Kwa Moto 02:09	lyrics	buy track
My soul on fire I’m in need of dire attention I’m a proud fuck up I’m done with trying repentance I’m unsure of what to ever say it’s always sighs in my sentence My mind on a mission My shoe size lock you for fucking life in the prison My birthgiver stifled decisions Me and my girl got chemistry, but our love fighting fissions I swear we on fire, we creating life with our mixtures I told her, get off instagram you living life through the pictures Her mouth top five like the senses Can’t lie, I’m insecure so you know I slide through the mentions Ultralight beaming through my life like a rifle extension My mother pick a fight she now reigniting the tension Round the time when the ravens and titans was securing playoff position Back when my steelers was winning, with big Ben The grin above my chin hides feelings when life feeling grim My lights getting dim Find god, start the search from within Fuck rough, she hurting the pen I write blunt, so it hurt when I pen I pray my queen intervene and pick me up when my heart bleeding again My ego playing hide and seek when I sin I never lost, but at what cost Even when I win I’m weeping again, my nigga I- fuck
3.	Satchel Paige 01:13	lyrics	buy track
Can't force it that’s when it go wrong Torch the paper, coping through the smoke fog I text you later, hope the flames ain’t go off Go out sad, never that Go out bad, I never swing when at bat She crossing boundaries, why I reward her for that I get hypnotized when the ass is as fat as my ego When you kill yours that’s when we grow But until then, I’ll play the bullpen I don't know if I’ll ever pitch Searching for knives when life was a bitch Remember, burdens and trauma strikes my mind lies in abyss I try to strike love at the right time but I miss I try to resist day to day the lips that I kiss Try to empower my people, we’ll rise with the fist Underground top five, why am I not on the list Why my, father meet my jaw with his fist Why my momma got the cancer like papa that we miss Can’t hug my granny cause of Covid and shit Can’t hug a dollar cause money and time ain’t real I hope before nirvana I find time to heal Find time to heal, my nigga
4.	R(EVOLUTION) 03:58	lyrics	buy track
Keep faith black being Shoutout my queen she taught a king how to love right I brought bars to a gunfight Dimes like Steve, he can bob and weave ‘til his luck out Imma call my cousin Tre to blow your brains all the fuck out Growing pains like sore thumbs we was stuck out She give me brain ‘til I pump out, uh yeah And I guess I got my karma, for eating niggas lunch up Remember when my auntie crashed the truck that shit was fucked up Maybe that’s why my mind perceive and read so fucked up That may be why everybody green to me like the weed I never crushed up Remember when my engine wouldn’t start my shit was fucked up Momma said I wouldn’t get too far with all that tough stuff Daddy backhand to the cheek, uh Feel it for a week, my nigga I guess his love tough Baby said I beat her guts rough and she like it I seen my god in some trees when I was biking It’s usually ‘bout some business when I’m typing I’m not surprised I measure baby love by her throat She only trying to drive the boat, shoutout to Meg Momma I’m fighting titans like Mavi said And I’ll be damned if I die before my mission led And I’ll be dead before my brother take that lead Love to Chimezie, love for a brighter day Revolution lit my lantern in the dark and showed me brighter ways I’m inspired by Jay Cinema Inspired by Jay Electronica You talk down, we up the aim a beam at your yamaka Baby, I ain’t get your dm cause I don’t follow you My nigga, why you worried ‘bout me and I don’t bother you, uh Women who ain’t seen me in a minute say my stance look different Say I stand a bit taller, guess I stand up bigger I’m a stand up guy, I’m a stand up nigga You a fan my guy, you a fan fuck nigga
5.	STAR FORM 02:30	lyrics	buy track
I know what I stand for Eyes burning from harsh burdens and sandstorms Came out the womb quite soon I wasn’t what my momma planned for Plan b was never an option Never will I stop on this journey seeking what I lost or Gas pressure in a cloudy space that’s how a star form And I’m a star boy I stopped hooping Remember me and T was in star form Winters was cold she knew how to make a heart warm But she knew how to make a stark turn and burn rubber out my visions and mind The kitty chasing me luckily the mouses was blind, see no evil Tore down my easel wasn’t good enough Fuss she putting up ‘bout to make me leave and put it up Luckily she good at getting the wood stood up, Pinocchio nose All the way down she poke me with her nose Tears in her eyes, say your goodbyes Load off, now she out my mind Pro moves when she arch her spine So I could not leave even if I tried If deep stroking give you piece of mind I will not fold for a piece of mind Not a piece of pussy, or a piece of ass If she coming first, then I’m coming last Kush was OG, put her on her ass Puss was OD, after I hit I crash into my thoughts and outside of the box schemes Christian churches sold me hope I bought dreams Crabs in a barrel the pot steams, who put us there The root of all evil, they skin fair they don’t play like it My skin brown, I’m in the sun so I stay like it Sitting on clouds thinking how I’m a star but don’t get paid like it Uh, Gas pressure in a cloudy space that’s how a star form And I’m a star boy I stopped hooping Remember me and T was in star form Winters was cold she knew how to make a heart warm My nigga Because I love you
6.	Chained by Pairs 03:05	lyrics	buy track
I’ve mastered the art of hiding sniffles and cries I’m masking fear for when my father dies Traumatized , mind plagued, taught lies Hope was sold and we bought, or should I say I And DOOM gone now my room on dark , I’m looking for pride but I happened to swallow mine We living on borrowed time, that’s what he said And baby I’m an artist, that’s why your messages always say read You should instead find someone- with a chemically balanced brain in they head Keep pace even when the race isn’t led Queen keep mace, in case I ain’t there to turn the whole place fucking red Momma almost lost the home we living in, it’s in her name now ‘cause faith wasn’t dead I cover my wrists and thighs depending on the state of my head She lay in my bed, I need more than u playing in my dreads Taste ‘tween her legs, climaxes met She want monogamy, that’s European not Kemet My guy pretty like a girl frank was correct I stare at the sun I swear to God Horus Ra was who I met, my nigga
7.	Me & Your Mother (Interlude) 01:43	lyrics	buy track
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8.	Out 222 The Sky 01:40	lyrics	buy track
And I’d be lying if I said my head always reaching out to the sky Every nigga a star, said Sly I read the lines I redefined myself by I’m reaching out the same hands in which I cry I split my brothers up a piece of the pie, cause it’s fat enough Point out all her imperfections ion think she know she bad enough But best believe, she gon’ leave, the second she think she say she had enough And I remember wishing I would’ve died, in that accident I was fed up I had had enough Remember sharing that air mattress when we ain’t have enough Now I’m up 40 Now I’m up 50 Now up I’m 60, and look who fucking with me, man I can’t brag enough And I remember they said I wasn’t hood, ‘cause my pants ain’t sag enough I remember thinking I was too good to ever pack it up, my nigga
9.	Baby, Yeah! 01:40	lyrics	buy track
I pray that god wait til I get right But this god right here gon praise me all night We started at 3 pm, but I can see we gon be all night Gon’ need all night Remember women I won’t out telling me take off the protection you’ll be alright Best believe I was checking if it was burning when I pee all night Her skin glisten from erections in dark stairway sections Banned from deerbrook for tryna start a family in the family bathroom They knocked on the door before I reached the gates of heaven, perhaps that was a blessing And, toxic pussy is the best pussy nigga Remember tryna reason like- nigga we all fight, right Heavy breathing releasing kids and semen on her ribs, demon time is what it is Rocket soaring, lion roaring But in the cage, ‘cause ion need no wife and kids, my nigga
10.	Bill O'Neal 02:46	lyrics	buy track
And I be feeling like the worst son Told her I’m a Scorpio I seen her reaction she acting like I got the worst sun sign Watching Daniel Kalluya and Judas on the TV screen Look at Fred like damn he 21 that could’ve been me And his Brain filled with lead, two bullets in his head While his wife was in the bed, it was a baby in her belly And Tamir was just a baby, why they kill these niggas You a Bill ass nigga, that’s why ion feel these niggas, fasho Killed the old me he stumbled back to the floor He had braces, now he got a goatee and some more Thank god my teeth stayed straight ‘cause i lost them retainers And baby we graduated they steady tryna retain us Built the easel up I write for the painters Don’t get it twisted I also pen for the niggas wrapping white tight in them packaged containers Remember when the opps had threatened to stain us Me and my sisters often struggled with different living arrangements But I can’t say I seldom struggle now Barely see my brothers now, I’m hiding under covers now ‘cause brothers undercover now Tez hold me down like no other nigga In and out of anxious mental states when Ken and Kay was fucking other niggas Can’t believe my parents seams split, they seeing other niggas It’s hard reaching for the sky when your hands on the ground And this music how I cope, so don’t you tell me turn it down I know when John and Justin on the court they never turn me down FaceTime with granny she said I never let her down Said you always hide your dimples through the hurting with the frowns And Kincaid I’ll see you soon, my dude ascended to the clouds I still feel pain by the pound ,it’s astounding nigga I still feel pain by the pound ,it’s astounding nigga It’s insane and wild how the fuck I’m still smiling nigga But I can’t say I seldom struggle now, barely see my brothers now I barely speak with mother now I know it hurt cause I’m her only son, it’s not personal she understand I’m on the run from sum Had to understand life not a track meet Daddy wasn’t there at times, I swear he not a deadbeat I got a heavy heart so imma need my art to carry me, prepare for me
11.	we gon' tear it up! (Outro) 03:05	lyrics	buy track
Alright alright, uh, uh, here it go If ion know you don’t talk to me If you don’t talk to me you don’t know me Couple friends but not too many homies I been plenty lonely all my life I been tryna deal with what’s real in the black plight I’m still tryna deal with my friends being killed but it’s alright Remember it was days I ain’t wanna see the next night Remember parked car conversations, when she stayed ‘til the next night Remember hitting push ups and shoulder presses preparing for parrys in me and father next fight Remember standing on 141st with Jay in the sunlight Remember when they locked my cousin up he let it spray, and won the gun fight Remember burning my black back running on that red and black track My head was fogged, I couldn’t run right Tell my momma it’s above her now, tell my granny that I love her now Tell my granny that I love her now, tell my momma it’s above her now Tell my momma it’s above her now Tell my granny that I love her now, tell my momma it’s above her now I know the life I live is wild And I know you can’t believe, that this your son but I’m standing on my ten toes now Momma be having a hard time breathing and shit Daddy can barely see or hear now I fear how shit will be when I’m gone cause I am indeed leaving this bitch Stars are born in pairs like fucking lilo and stitch But they die alone With that being said, when I’m dead and gone I hope I’m actually missed Remember the teacher asking what’s wrong after the whole class was dismissed Or when she laughed in my face and I spazzed on her shit Ion got no problem spazzing on a Karen in front of some friends Used to scribble this rap shit for fun in Thursday classes Now my shit bring people together like Easter Sunday masses Hallway passes and twin size mattresses Hooping and tracking now I see was distractions I was often ashamed of my blackness, but not no more Not no more