Because (feat. Joey Bada$$, Russ, and Dylan Cartlidge)

Because it's hard to find your love, I found it out

Because you better not stay, you better not stay

Because it's hard to find your love, I found it out

Because this love is so non-desirable, oh

I'm from where too many lives twenty-five years or fewer

Nothing we receive is brand new, it's just newer

While brothers drop down to their knees and make dua

Popsicle sticks race down the curb into the sewer

The next American hangman sketched in crayon

Gangland all a façade that you can spray on

Killin' birds with one stone is what we stay on

Wingspan never too wide for you to prey on

The ways never cease to amaze or inspire

Illiterate, the signatures been forged in fire

Broken spirit, some assembly required

It confirmed the door of no return at Elmina

Screamin' into the ocean for emotional support

We never won awards, we was wards of the court

Puttin' swords to umbilical cords to cut 'em short

Translation: vacation is at a last resort

Because it's hard to find your love, I found it out

Because this love is so non-desirable, oh

We took shoestrings, lemon drops and chips from the deli

Knocked 'em out the box with spinner tops and skelly

"Do it, you'll get to it," what Mr. Womack would tell me

I was locked, my celly read Niccolò Machiavelli

This inheritance was negative, beverage is the devil's piss

State's evidence, give us anything instead of this drama

In the mirror like Yayoi Kusama

Had me turnin' to Muhammad, to Buddha, to Dalai Lama

If I would snatch a shoulder bag from somebody mama

Am I cancerous? Can't discuss what the short answer was

Hungriest ones take the money and run

Sometimes simultaneously taking one of your lungs

What I mean is, I've seen everything that's under the sun

Niggas below the poverty line live under the gun

We all schemin', savages ain't vegan, what the fuck is love?

Don't need a reason to die, we die just because

Because it's hard to find your love, I found it out

Because you better not stay, you better not stay

Because it's hard to find your love, I found it out

Because this love is so non-desirable, oh (Uh)

I was on thirty-four cruisin' through Medina

I was just a Neo 'fore I had the nina

I had the snapback with the t-shirt

Practicin' my ollie, I could hardly get my feet up

Had to hit the staircase just to roll the reefer, uh

Now I'm smokin' big Cohibas out in Costa Rica like pura vida

Havin' flashbacks of niggas gettin' clapped at in front the cleaners

On 34th Street, until this day it haunts me

It's why I had to move raunchy

I know killers in Marcy, so please don't taunt me

I spent some summer times in Canarsie

Me and Quan gettin' stopped and frisked by Hutch and Starsky

They was lookin' for hard drugs an' armory

Mama told me not to let that shit bother me

Poppa said to move cautiously

So the streets would never father me

But you don't know that part of me

Because it's hard to find your love, I found it out

Because this love is so non-desirable, oh (Yeah)

My girl told me I should watch my tongue

My skin gets red too easy

Sh don't wanna change her name like Washington

Wonders where I got it from

My parents' marriage was a toxic one

Mm, oh well, I'm 'bout to cop a gun

Hope I got to use it, it'll help blow up the music

I know somethin' slightly off with me, drama is therapeutic

Ego hates feeling futile, sometimes I move without scruples

Like havin' Mrs. Perfect with me and still chasin' approval

From other women, I'm a glutton, I can't run from who I become

Dad's around the corner, haven't seen him in like three months

We don't speak much, I don't handle balance well, got a fragile shell

My money split the king and queen up, then the castle fell

The tension in the air is still crisp

Sometimes I wish this game was over like I'm Lil' Flip (Flip)

Sometimes I'm wishing that my brain came with a kill switch

I don't vacation, dawg, I guilt trip, real shit, yeah

Because it's hard to find your love, I found it out

Because you better not stay, you better not stay

Because it's hard to find your love, I found it out

Because this love is so non-desirable, oh