Started with a dollar and a dream
Ended with two pennies and a nightmare
But that’s enough sense to know
Don’t expect the enemy to fight fair
They slept on me for a price
I gave ’em everything but timeshare
We’re sippin' Hennessy and wine, cheers!
Feel each others pain, but everything is fine here
Right? I mean you feel me, don’t you?
Don’t fail me now, the fam’s really hopeful
They wanna see me take the city global
But I got different motives, here’s what my MO is
I told them I’m more than a business mogul
Blame that on the school that I didn’t go to
A teacher said it once, past tense
She told me rap was my intelligence half-spent
Now all her students listen to me in her class
So in a sense, I’m there now more than I ever was back then
Back then she couldn’t reach me, and we both knew
To learn about the world, I see it with my own two
See, I learn from every place I go to
And where I lay my head is home
I guess I was home-schooled, uh-huh, so true
Long nights and short days, long flights and gross food
Hot women and cold brews
Chopsticks for the potstickers, a long wind or a short fuse, lit
Less talkin' and more music
Drop gems, when there’s less options it’s more bullshit
Full clips in the pen to educate these fools wit'
What good’s a king with a fool’s wit?
Spark a flame to massage the brain
Part ashamed, I dream of you
But when I’m awake you aren’t the same
Art imitates you, and this body was made from hardened clay
In light of that I’ve seen darker days
This vision is vivid, I live it, don’t get it twisted
Light this Swisher in my ear, put that shit up in the air
Give me "Spitter of the Year"
I used to want it, now I’d rather have you give it to my peers
I know, I’m so contradictory; I’m hit-or-miss
I’m this-and-that—use what you want against me!
I’m in and out the city
I’m on a mountain with no service on it
I’m out of touch, stackin' paper
For this album, yeah, I’m workin' on it
Show me how to slow it down
In any case I’ma smoke a pound
Then I’ll take my pennies saved and throw 'em out
At any rate I’m broken down
But I’ll catch a break when it’s broken down
Probably catch a case and go to trial
The lawyer estimates legislation throws it out
We celebrate every day, FBA hold our ground
Watch the mess you made get swept away, it won’t get found
We demonstrate, and threats are made
To pepper spray and hose us down
Man without sin, religion without lies
Success without struggle, prison and cloud nine
They seem to go together, I figured it out, why?
It’s coexistence, though the difference is miles wide
I’m honestly cold and spiteful
Take my problems, prop them on my shoulder
How they taught me to properly hold a rifle
A prophet with no disciples
Man made his image in God’s when he wrote the Bible
To profit, I know the cycle
Every day I see it, get locked away for thinkin'
All in the name of freedom
This ain’t a place for a creative bein'
Praise the people and slay the kingsmen!
Smokin' tree out Fiat currency
Burnin' down his paper kingdom
I’m not gonna join ’em, I know the way to beat ’em
Operate outside of the system—the way that they competin'
Revolvin' doors, a spiral staircase
Pullin' thoughts from airwaves
Anything above my brain’s sovereign airspace
The celly’s hot, there’s lots of hearsay
Meet at the Mexican spot with the chips
I’ll bring the salsa verde
I'll shoot a clay pigeon just to stop an air raid
That means the sky is ours, ’cause they’ve gotten their day
Dropped Skrill Talk and made improvements since
Just wish I could give you music in its newest tense
Not scared of losin' if I grew from it
Shit, they’re about to lose the house that I grew up in
Every loss is an opportunity to win
Every ending is potentially where you begin
I’m losin' it, 'bout to break out of this human skin
No longer seek the admiration of these foolish men
This is not a goodbye—hell no!
This is a moment in time before the next hello
Hello? Hello? Hello? Is anybody listenin'?!