[00:14.17]It's been a long way, but I made it here with love
[00:23.48]I made it here with love, love
[00:29.65]Said I've been and up and down and I've been through it all
[00:35.82]Took a while to know my heart
[00:39.49]Oh, yes, it did, yeah
[00:44.51]Before love like this, you go
[00:47.74]Through the fire and valley lows
[00:51.20]But if you just hold on
[00:53.82]Please hold on 'cause love is strong, it'll save yah
[00:57.93]Oh, please hold on, it'll save yah, save yah
[01:02.22]
[01:15.29]Truth can be the sweetest pain
[01:18.26]It can mess up everything
[01:21.34]It's the only way you know
[01:23.57]I'm payin' for it, I'm changin' for it
[01:27.32]Oh, oh, and it hurts
[01:30.36]But I'll make it work
[01:33.41]'Cause I'm no beginner
[01:35.31]I'm a winner, paid dues, I know my purpose
[01:38.83]
[01:40.30]Thought they'd put my life on hold
[01:42.74]But I knew somethin' they didn't know
[01:45.55]I know myself too much to ever fold
[01:48.66]Dark clouds are movin' past you
[01:50.67]
[01:51.14]Oh, you gotta love yourself
[01:54.81]If you really wanna be with someone else
[01:58.24]You gotta feed yourself
[02:00.88]Before you feed somebody else
[02:03.90]You gotta stay open, and don't be foolish
[02:06.94]'Cause everybody don't mean you well
[02:10.41]You gotta love yourself
[02:13.36]Before you love somebody else
[02:15.40]
[02:16.21]Yeah, gotta love yourself
[02:23.83]Uh, you know what I'm sayin'?
[02:25.14]
[02:27.12]I decided not to use my color as a handicap
[02:30.57]He a designer, artist, producer, and he rap
[02:33.25]Never found virtue from patience
[02:35.16]In a dark room just pacin'
[02:36.71]Precious time is just wastin'
[02:38.18]You do not know what we facin'
[02:39.73]I cannot be complacent
[02:41.26]In my job, be courageous
[02:42.79]Another kid just got shot
[02:44.21]They can't find the assailant
[02:45.79]Made it out of the ba*****t
[02:47.33]Made it out of the underground
[02:48.81]From a time where you outta town
[02:50.34]They might gun you down, blaow
[02:51.79]There goes another round, blaow
[02:53.21]There goes another round
[02:54.66]Came from the Chi and wow, look what the **** they found
[02:57.84]A young legend, comin' to shut the summer down
[03:00.81]You need to talk to me like you don't when your mother 'round
[03:03.56]
[03:04.11]Oh, you gotta love yourself, oh yeah
[03:07.60]If you really wanna be with someone else
[03:11.70]You gotta feed yourself
[03:13.92]Before you feed somebody else
[03:16.85]You gotta stay open, and don't be foolish
[03:19.92]'Cause everybody don't mean you well
[03:23.30]You gotta love yourself
[03:24.92]You gotta love yourself
[03:26.41]Before you love somebody else
[03:28.24]
[03:29.11]I don't feel no one's time
[03:31.92]Can't get restless in the soul
[03:34.96]Hold your heart, the world is cold
[03:37.24]Keep singin', don't you stop prayin', woman
[03:41.00]Yeah, it will come to pass
[03:44.70]Don't worry 'bout nothin'
[03:47.10]God knows that you're worth it
[03:49.60]You deserve it, can't nothin' else hurt you
[03:52.15]
[03:53.78]Thought they'd put my life on hold
[03:56.42]But I knew somethin' they didn't know
[03:59.30]I know myself too much to ever fold
[04:02.43]Dark clouds are movin' past you
[04:04.57]
[04:04.81]Oh, you gotta love yourself, oh yeah
[04:08.50]If you really wanna be with someone else
[04:11.96]You gotta feed yourself
[04:14.72]Before you feed somebody else
[04:17.61]You gotta stay open, and don't be foolish
[04:20.64]'Cause everybody don't mean you well
[04:24.23]You gotta love yourself
[04:25.69]You gotta love yourself
[04:27.21]Before you love somebody else