Killer before the shine, I came up, that nigga I´m born to rhyme, make more, the corporate line These chumps operatin´ on overtime This is my quarter dog, you eat what you slaughter We all can dine, it was fate I fall in a hole again, I was supposed to climb Heavy the fortunate, New York in this bitch Yeah, we torchin´ shit, we enforce to quit Bought in a ticket if I´m talkin´ slick Made it a Porsche to whip, fuck out the way ´fore the horses kick This is where the bosses flick Bitch with the rings, once they all convicted The hood´ll damage you, you got thrown in the game with no manual Back on my feet after the scramble, got all the intangibles
So pass the man on, Louis Vuitton my handle (Uh) Whether the weakest struck a sandal, I´m holdin´ up like a man do, nigga (Yeah) Light up a candle, there´ll be opps leavin´ the state A block season, the city made me cold, I don´t think I´ma ever stop freezin´ Filet Mignon for no reason, too many days of chop cheesin´ Move like I´m under surveillance, but not for schemin´, uh
When you thought it was over, another one´s out the chamber When you come up in the boroughs, you comfortable ´round the danger They ain´t gon´ do nothin´ for you, nigga, help´s all oughta fade us
´Cause we never had much Learnin´ survivin´ with what they gave us, a hundred-one razors Shit gon´ stay the same, you gotta go through the stages (Uh) Careful how you move, they want you livin´ in cages (Uh) Stay away from sucker shit, they hatin´, it´s contagious (Yeah) I been gettin´ the money, dog, the money won´t change us
Legend before retirement, you? Just a Busta before the Rhyme You primadonnas like a virgin Madonna, but borderline Bunch of borin´ lines no one fallin´ for, so fall in line
The punchline, I´m like a freestyle slime, stay off of mine Get it? Off the mind, some of us get it But off a crime, the offer´s off the table Public defendant gon´ offer time When they thought I was subbed in, I thought sublime Now I see since 2020, I clearly thought I was blind, yo The streets is watchin´ ´em, they want ´em with Biggie and Pac in ´em Resort to poppin´ ´em, but how is that solvin´ the problem? I got a lot of ´em, I also got dreams, I follow ´em I´m not concerned with rappers who can´t spit, so swallow then, uh This ain´t for lil´ saints, so pardon then (Uh)
You see them pearly gates? That´s where them saints go marchin´ in So shall we start again? Method and Banks, this marketin´ ´Cause ain´t no bargainin´ with the demographic we targetin´
When you thought it was over, another one´s out the chamber When you come up in the boroughs, you comfortable ´round the danger They ain´t gon´ do nothin´ for you, nigga, help´s all oughta fade us ´Cause we never had much Learnin´ survivin´ with what they gave us, a hundred-one razors Shit gon´ stay the same, you gotta go through the stages (Uh)
Careful how you move, they want you livin´ in cages (Uh) Stay away from sucker shit, they hatin´, it´s contagious (Yeah) I been gettin´ the money, dog, the money won´t change us