Released: September 4, 2020

Featuring: Wale Earlly Mac Anderson .Paak

Songwriter: Nicholas “Sunny” Race Corbett Rogét Chahayed Hit-Boy Earlly Mac Wale Anderson .Paak Big Sean

Producer: Rogét Chahayed Corbett Hit-Boy

[Intro: Anderson .Paak]
Yeah (Oh yeah)

[Verse 1: Anderson .Paak]
I'm broken in pieces down to the soul
I know the whole world can feel it
I know that they can see it (Oh), uh
Oh, I hate to admit that I need you, I need you, I need you
Next to me
You said that you would ride for me
And I hear you
But right now I need to feel you right next to me
'Cause this is all I got, prove that you got me
(Oh yeah) Oh yeah, yeah
(Broken pieces)
'Cause this is all I got, prove that you got me

[Chorus: Earlly Mac, Anderson .Paak & Both]
Yeah
So if you say, "Nigga," then I'ma say, "Is that a Ritz?" Mmm
Ooh, fifty niggas deep (Deep), hundred niggas step
Million Man March (Mmm), cracker, don't you start (Yeah)
Hold yo' head, guard yo' heart
Hold yo' head, uh
Nigga, get yo' bread, uh, light yo' spark
Strike yo' mark, life don't stop
So hold yo' hеad, guard yo' heart
Hold yo' head, yeah

[Verse 2: Big Sean, Anderson .Paak & Wale]
Conflictеd in this free-based world of give and take (Take)
'Cause I always rather give than to be the one sayin' thanks (Woah)
Conflicted like bein' signed to Ye and managed by JAY
Conflicted like bein' cool with Pusha and Drake (Damn)
Conflicted like reppin' a city where I hardly stay (Stay)
Or knowin' that you wrong but it's too hard to say
Hold yo' head (Hold yo' head), guard your heart (Guard your heart)
In my life, those were the hardest parts (Yeah)
So many dark times, I wish I caught a spark
Or learned not seein' eye to eye could be fixed with a heart to heart (God)
So many lost, I feel lost, got me feelin' like a real nigga, Holocaust
Got me mournin' while it's dark (Dark)
Life'll eat you alive, we know how to be a meal
Shit, rather than see a mill', to make it out, you need a skill (Yeah)
Thought I was past my past, but let's be clear (Clear)
Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear (Swerve)
Regrettin' everything in life is my only fear (My only fear)
And you know what they say about not conquerin' fears (What?)
If you don't, then they'll always be near
As that reminder in your ear, shit that I ain't tryna hear (Nah)
Hold yo' head (Hold yo' head), guard your heart (Guard your heart)
In my life, those were the hardest parts (Swerve)
Oh, you mistake me fallin' down for fallin' off (Woah)
Or mistake me bein' soft for speakin' from the heart
I guess life hasn't taught you as much as you thought
Instead of pickin' up your missin' pieces, you pick me apart (God)

[Verse 3: Wale & Big Sean]
Boy, hold your head but guard your heart
Got tired of white silence, so the riots started
And the robbers robbed, you wylin' 'cause yo' product gone?
We mad that Eric Garner, Breonna, Gianna father gone
Yeah, a lot of trauma, we tired, exhausted
Ermias the prophet said it'd be a marathon, look
Seen all my dawgs shown me God was watchin' (Woah)
Pandemic slowin' 'em down, they fastin', Ramadan
The land of fifty stars, on Hollywood marchin'
White friends don't got us, I promise you, I'll block 'em (Straight up)
I'ma count my bread, I defied the odds
And fuck the Saint quarterback 'cause he ain't Saint Laurent
Boy, from here on out, we on Peyer Moss
If we leave Reebok, we still bring 'em pumps and all the broads
Yeah, I motivate (I motivate), I don't divide (I don't divide)
The 45 a coward for practicing otherwise
A burnt nation, still it's under God
Not gonna throw the towel in, I'm by my brother's side
Your niggas be yo' niggas when you level up
You see that yo' niggas and brothers different when luck is up
So I trust nothing, this industry's something
My biggest rival is my mind protecting my thoughts
As well as my heart

[Chorus: Earlly Mac]
It's fifty niggas deep, hundred niggas step
Million Man March, cracker, don't you start
Hold yo' head, guard yo' heart
Hold yo' head, uh
Nigga, get yo' bread, uh, light yo' spark
Strike yo' mark, life don't stop
So hold yo' head, guard yo' heart
Hold yo' head, yeah

Big Sean

Sean Michael Leonard Anderson (born March 25, 1988), known professionally as Big Sean, is an American hip hop recording artist from Detroit, Michigan. Sean signed with Kanye West’s GOOD Music in 2007, Def Jam Recordings in 2008 and Roc Nation in 2014. After releasing several mixtapes, Sean released his debut album, Finally Famous, in 2011.

Fresh off one of the coldest features of the year on Drake’s “All Me,” Sean released his second studio album, Hall of Fame, on August 27, 2013. Sean’s third studio album, Dark Sky Paradise, was released in 2015 and earned him his first No. 1 studio album. The album featured hits like the banger “I Don’t Fuck With You”, which peaked at #11 and went quadruple platinum, and the Drake-assisted “Blessings”, which went double platinum.

TWENTY88, a group composed of Sean and Jhené Aiko, released a self-titled album on March 28th, 2016. The group was titled as such as both artists turned 28 during 2016, as both were born in 1988.