I Promise Video (MV)

Yeah I promise
It's gon be my last summer slummin
Yeah I promise
Next summer I will prosper
And you know I'm honnest
It's gon be our last summer poor
Son I promise
And you know I'm honnest
More than Tony Jeffers

Don't you see I'm a Sphinx
When you look at my posture
You cannot see the Mix
Of emotion in my heart
Scared Telling me to fix
Your entire world on some self type risk
You know that you are witnessing a free soul
Though life is just a game of expectation
Between the will and the skill no correlation
For students tryna work no consideration
Rather see your diploma than have a conversation so
Before the light was
We were on the porch smoking backwoods
Chillin, deep think, conversing
That's what weed does
When you high
All day starin at the sky
You looking for that divine fire
So you prayin Râ
Last month been incredible
Told all those demons adios
Thanks to my
Gland Pineal
Melatonin produced so I can't fall
A sleep went to his funeral

Yeah I promise
It's gon be my last summer slummin
Yeah I promise
Next summer I will prosper
Yea I promise
With the seasons thangs will get better
Mom I promise
And you know I'm honnest
Like you told me when I was six
I promise
It's gon be our last summer poor
Son I promise
With the seasons thangs will get better
I promise
And you know I'm honnest
More than Tony Jeffers

I'm sorry ma
Didnt mean to ignore you ma
Sorry the dial tone became your brutha
I was in a tunnel vision
This whole summer
Tryna get my first check with a real job
Just to show you that I'm able
But truth is my situation is shaky and unstable
Cause in my realm my dream more important
They was trying to get millions
I was trying to fit in like chameleons
Always introverted, ah too bad
Not a big entourage
Always in camouflage
In my realm feelin free but it's a mirage
Fell in love with hip hop so I pay hommage
Some emcees made me feel less crazy that's why I recognize
Talent when I hear it
An artist when he lays it
All down on the track
This feeling that only you can get it
But a true illusion turns into a vision when you share it so

Yeah I promise
It's gon be my last summer slummin
Yeah I promise
Next summer I will prosper
Yea I promise
With the seasons thangs will get better
Mom I promise
And you know I'm honnest
Like you told me when I was six
I promise
It's gon be our last summer poor
Son I promise
With the seasons thangs will get better
I promise
And you know I'm honnest
More than Tony Jeffers

I never demanded nothing
I Always felt like the man
Cause my daddy embodies "Somedy's parent" by Cody Chestnutt
And I get it it's hard to be a father if you already a father with another baby mother on another continent but still I'm counting nah
Well i guess not
That was how I felt in 09
Cause I see mom working more than a 9 to 5
And We done been through some stuff
We moved from uncle houses, to friends couches, to Torcy places
Now we complacent
Own flat feelin like we made it
But I got a greater vision
So pay attention cause
I'll never speak as loud as you want me too
I'll always speak my mind with the calmest voice
The choice is in y'all ears what y'all gonna do
Listen to the truth or hear the noise

Yeah I promise
It's gon be my last summer slummin
Yeah I promise
Next summer I will prosper
And you know I'm honnest