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Back Off

from I Am Water by Jesse Abraham

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“Jesse you’re a wigger / Put your hat on straight / Your pants are getting bigger? / Still in that rapping phase? / Your earring isn’t cute / Why’d you shave your head? / Is that your dad’s suit?” / Bitch, my dad's dead / They try to give me shit / They don't know what's in me, shit / A fire burnin / Smoke comin’ out my mouth / I'm on some chimney shit / Coaches had jokes / Teachers had jokes / Parents had jokes / Pack your bags folks and back off / My pants gone sag and I ain’t takin my hat off / "Yo, you look like Asher Roth" / Hilarious. Mazel tov / Should I complain? / "They're mean and rude" / Should I refrain from stayin true? / Should I behave the same as you? / What's lacrosse? / Who's Dave Matthews? / I didn't have two parents whose style I could inherit / So I cherished independence /Found merit in my spirit of rebelliousness / So listen close when I tell you this / Your opinions about my way of life they really don't mean shit / When I was a kid I ain’t never fit in / And no matter what I did people said I was wrong / But I ain’t throw a fit / I ain’t really give a shit / Only thing that I said was back off / Don't worry bout me, just worry bout you / And back off / “Jesse you’ve got money / And you’re from Manhattan / You’re probably just a yuppy who wants to try his hand at rappin / Jump off the bandwagon / You’re fake, a disgrace / Whatchu know about the struggle?” / Aright, listen up shitface / First off, life ain’t about the surface, it’s bout what’s underneath / Second, take a second, learn about me before you suck your teeth / Yeah I got dough / Wallet ain’t delgado / I work for all my guap though / Oh my God, bro / Back off / I bust my ass for everything I got, you jack off / 
“Yo, you’re probably mad soft” / Shit like that I laugh off / No point in comparing you and me / What, you mad about the UMA? / Truthfully that lunacy wasn't new to me / When I was a kid I ain’t never fit in / And no matter what I did people said I was wrong / But I ain’t throw a fit / I ain’t really give a shit / Only thing that I said was back off / Don't worry bout me, just worry bout you / And back off / “Jesse you’re annoying / Promote yourself too much / I’m over here enjoying Twitter at my job at lunch / And you just keep on yappin / Blah blah rappin rappin / I unfollowed you by accident / Oh, 
that’s what happened? / What / I'm gonna make an album and not tell heads about it? / Whisper it, not shout it? / Picture it, I doubt it / Blogs have red tape / "You should sound like Blu's tape" / "New York needs a purple tape" / Help good music circulate or back off / Lose that badge and take your journalist mask off / "It's my opinion, that's all" / Most of y'all are mascots / Ok, look / I'm an artist who is happy making art / Some websites just copy paste and in their haste they're breaking hearts / But me, I just wanna write, record some shit and share it / I don't care if I make carrots / Just want you to hear it / People ask me / “Jesse, what are you tryin to do with this music shit?” / Umm, I'm tryin to make some music, shit / When I was a kid I ain’t never fit in / And no matter what I did people said I was wrong / But I ain’t throw a fit / I ain’t really give a shit / Only thing that I said was back off.


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from I Am Water, released January 29, 2014
Prod. K.O. Beatz

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Jesse Abraham Brooklyn, New York

UMA Lyricist of the Year Jesse Abraham was born in NYC. His debut LP, One Day, spent weeks on DJBooth’s Top 5 & was nominated for Album of the Year at the 2011 Underground Music Awards. In '12, HipHopDX declared him their “DXNext” artist, right at the start of Abraham’s push towards his next full-length LP, the project entitled I Am Water, scheduled for a 1/29/13 drop via Fat Beats Records. ... more

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