Up & Down - Tunde Olaniran

See I been up, and I been down

Roads unpaved, and voices loud

Scold me once, I never learned

They had their chance, now it’s my turn

Don’t let a mirror stop you

Your body taught to fight you

At every turn you doubt you

There’s just one way to go

Learn to love all of me

Even when I’m ugly

Painful and so tough we

Bend into the sun and grow

My body ain’t too much to love

She said: «Is this… how you really wanna look?»

Running through my town

With a name that’s known

But at home I could never define the right zone

Now I don’t even have to weigh it

Beating on my chest all day

Getting to the raw, I’d fix my eyes

Never look down, make believe no sight

Praised my mind, but disliked the outside

I had a complex but then I burned through it

What test left?

I’ll come do it

Blazing hot, but they into it

«He a phoenix!

I knew it»

Robbin Tunney when I come through

Visionary witch in full bloom

My big hair and these slick moves

No hype needed, just sick tunes

So wavy, where’s my trident?

Keep it wetter than a hundred hydrants

Head cocked at all this vibrance

You can just watch me and be silent

Bars and bangers in my holster

Your whole persona: Rube Goldberg

I’m sipping on ginger soda

Imperial with Miz Korona

One day, I’m ugly

Next day, I love me

Fat first, swag surf, around

The shame that hunts me

«Where he come from?»

Left field

Ye’en know?

I been trill

These appetizers like Benadryl

I’m the main course, and a good meal

The oil is coconut

A royalty surrogate

The aura be powerful

Breathe it in, soak it up

My blade is sharper you might call me Sonya

There’s plenty of fish but syke I am not wanda

They lurk on my twitter but I am unbothered

They keep a tab on me:

Malia Obama

My blade, sharper

Call me Sonya

Plenty of fish

But I’m not Wanda

Lurk on my twitter but I am unbothered

They keep a tab on me

Malia Obama

Malia Obama

Malia Obama

Malia Obama