Nova vs. Hoyas, in '85
The underdogs victorious 
Purpose has voided
Weapons meant to destroy us
The crowd cheers but the homies are joyless
People we used to call friends
Changing on us, we ain't even pop yet
Kind of feeling make you think you got next
What a disappointment
I couldn't give two birds bout what ya heard
Ain't no vs, flip it, one verse and you got served
I do my own my bidding
You Lay-ing, I put my chips in
So in a few years tell me how you living?
You said you bouta to blow but all I see is smoke
Did it sink in? Because you hit me like you need a boat
Meanwhile my people are crying until their eyes are tearless
Texting their dearest like end is near us
Needing clearance 
If you hear this in my sincerest I hope speared ya spirit
Y'all do it for peers and peerage
Y'all doing it for appearance

What does it take to be
Everything you thought about
Action when you call it out
Or else you just talkin
If they don't hate you then you're not a threat
You plain but I'm a jet
They read tales bout how I lost'em
Workin past exhaustion
Workin til the sun up
And I am still looking life like its a 1up
It ain't about where it's at, it's where you should be
You talkin like you're the man that you could be

Look, I been through it
I been under
I been on top it
I been seeing the blind move and how it has robbed them
I've been played
And I've benched like there's nothing in me
I'm still standing, I'm still here, and I'm still marching
Almighty I be, you cannot find me 
I'm writing through darkness inside me, don't take me lightly
Y'all tryna incite me
But I've been fighting my way to the spark, igniting
A generation
Look to the skies, and see that we up