Cleaning Out My Closet – Angel Haze (originally by Eminem)
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Now, this might get a little personal. Or a lot actually. Parental discretion is advised. Yo, look, look.
When I was 10, shit I believed I could fly I would just flap my fucking arms And try to meet with the sky And in my mind I’d envision that I was speaking with God And then I’d chop his fucking fist off and beat him with mine
But this is just a fucking portion of the war with my mind So I’mma take you fuckers back into the vortex of time When I was 7 Envision me at the bottom of stairs And I solemnly swear that this is the truth No fallacy here
See I was young man I was just a toddler a kid And he wasn’t the first to successfully try what he did He took me to the basement And after the lights had been cut He whipped it and sodomized and forced his cock through my gut
See it was weird because I felt like I was losing my mind And then it happened like it happened like millions of times And I would swear that I would tell But they would think I was lying And now the power that he held was like a beacon in mine
So now I got used to it I put up with the shit And now my hate was so volcanically eruptive and shit But this is nothing ’cause I guess he told his friend what he do And they ate it up Shit I was like a buffet for 2
And then it happened in a home where every-fucking-one knew And they ain’t do shit but fucking blame it on youth I’m sorry mom But I really used to blame it on you But even you By then wouldn’t know what to do
And now it happened so often that he was getting particular And I’m more scared every time worked on my speed and ventricular One night he came home and I was ‘sleep in my bed He climbed on top of me and forced himself between my legs
He told me, “Hey ray, I see you like them Popsicle sticks So put your mouth on my dick And suck and swallow this spit”
And I was confused But I was scared So I did what he said I had no idea the affect it would have on my head
My heart was pumping It was thumping with like tons of my fear Imagine being 7 seeing cum in yo underwear I know it’s nasty but sometimes I’d even bleed from my butt Disgusting, right? Now let that feeling ring through your guts
I thought of offing myself I thought of killing these niggas Wanted to take a fucking brick and push their teeth through their liver Wanted to smash the fucking world and burn its leftover parts Wanted to rip it out and just Fucking step on my heart
Then I grew up and I wasn’t within a reach of these men But that didn’t keep out of motherfucking reach of my sin And psychologically I was just as fucked as they come I was confused I had to prove I wasn’t fucked from the jump
I was afraid of myself I had no love for myself I tried to kill I tried to hide I tried to run from myself
There was a point in my life where I didn’t like who I was So I’d create the other people I would try to become
Sexuality came into play And with as scarred as I was I was extremely scared of men So I started liking girls I started starving myself Fucked up my bodily health I didn’t wanna be attractive to nobody else I didn’t want the appeal Wanted to stunt my own growth
But there’s a fucking reason behind every scar that I show I never got to be a kid so that’s as far as I grow My mental state is out of date and that’s as far as I know My biggest problem was fear And what being fearful could do
It made me run It made me hide It made me scared of the truth I’m not deranged anymore I’m not the same anymore I mean I’m sane But I’m insane But not the same as before I had to deal with my shit I had to look at my truth
To understand that to grow You gotta look at your root I had to cut off the dead I had to make myself proud And I’m just standing living breathing proof Look at me now I made it through everything I made you look like a clown
I’m fucking great Can’t fucking hate you nigga Look at me now And I’m just saying this to tell you there’s a way from the ground The makings of a legend are often hidden in trials So just be strong And just move on And just accept what you can
Because it makes your story better when you read it The end
There’s a story behind every single scar that I show I made it out This a me nobody’s gotten before
I had to open my wounds I had to bleed ’til I stop Thanks for joining me here As I cleaned out my closet
I said I opened my wounds I had to bleed ’til I stop Thanks for joining me here As I cleaned out my closet judge