#LTM lyrics

[Intro: Angela McCluskey]
I brought you something close to me
And left with something new
See through your head
You haunt my dreams
There's nothing to do but believe
Just believe

[Verse: Ab-Soul]
And please don't confuse me with dot, I'm different
Long Term Mentality, still remember them cheap wood benches
How could I ever forget, I never could get
How n*ggas couldn't get up and get all they could get
Man I done seen a thing or two of things that he or she will do
To fit in with each other nitpicking at each other
Killing each other, bringing each other down, crustations in a bucket
f*ck it, roll your windows down in your bucket, play this loud
Soul brother number f*cking two, my time on these 1's and 2's
I'm on this track like running shoes
I dedicate this one to Cletus Anderson for working harder
Than the average man, or bend over backwards for his family
Doing whatever is you ask for him
sh*t, I know he f*cking tired, he should be somewhere retired
Still trying, bills still due and between me and you
Until we get a mill, life smells like mildew
[Chorus: Ab-Soul and Pat Brown]
Long term (This is long term!)
Long term (I hope you studied, cause I'm thinking long term)
Long term (I came, I saw, and conquered)
Mentality, mentality, long term (And it's an honor)
Long term (To share this with you, wait no longer)
Long term (Mother f*cker this is long term)
Mentality, mentality, long term

[Outro: Interviewer and Ab-Soul]
This situation is to relay how to make other people's lives, uh...
Better
Better because of—of running into what you had to say
Exactly
Of them finding your words
And they need to know this I've been doing this since Black Community Freestye Chapter
That's probably like, what, 2002-3? You know what I'm saying?
And I kept at it, I kept at it from there
And you're only—
24 I just turned 24, I just turned 24 it's crazy. You know what I'm saying?
So I dropped the — you know, Long Term came out
I dropped that finally, that didn't work out
Then I came back with the Long Term 2 sh*t they was like "oh!"
That's kinda cool—that's kinda cool right there
Then dot dropped the O.D., Kendrick dropped the O.D
That sh*t was like—
It went over everyone's head
Everyone's head
But they were still able to connect with it
Exactly
But it was like you hadn't heard this in a minute
It was like a rejuvenation...Exactly, exactly...you know?
Almost like, saved hip-hop
And about preaching, none of y'all are trying to preach like—
Like you're the new cats but it's just—you're not—
You didn't ever look at it like it was dead but you're bringing it back
Exactly
You're bringing it back to life
Real sh*t
Then Q dropped the Setback sh*t and that sh*t was like—
You know what I'm saying? Like, you know—and you already know, groovy
So, Top—Top talk to me like, he said, you know—
"You gotta go ahead and try sell something"
I'm thinking to myself it's a little too early for me to try and sell something
I'm still fresh but he said, "You need to go ahead and try it out
Everybody else selling
You gotta do Long Term something n*gga, you know, I don't care what it is
But that's your brand. You know, long term is your brand"
I didn't even want to do Long Term 3 yet until I'm rich
That's what Long Term 3 is about, being rich
So, I'm like you know
Damn, okay
So this is kinda, you know, just kinda like a—I wanted it to serve as like a summation of what Long Term is about and what it really meant
You know what I'm saying?
You a cool cat Ab, for real man
I mean f*ck I'm on tour now dog
I'm in Minneapolis, dog
People know you, when you go to a place—
You know what I'm talking 'bout?
I'm in Minneapolis bruh, cold as f*ck people know who I am over here bruh
I'm on tour with Murs right now, the Paid Dues tour
Like what the f*ck is going on?
That's long term!
You know what I'm saying?
You're on the Paid Dues, he just said it by putting you on it
(Soul!)
[Outro: David Icke]
People talk about a soul
To me what we call soul -- the highest expression of ourselves
Is pure love
I don't care who you are, what your background is what you've done
I don't care if you're Henry Kissinger or George Bush
Or David Rockefeller or the Queen of England or any of these
Guys that have been manipulating the world and still are
At that level of yourself, you're pure love
Everyone is but you can become disconnected from that level
And manifest in that disconnection anything but pure love
But that's what we all are, all of us