[ Featuring TINO ]
Barely got a high school diploma but art should be in the MOMA
Been pennin an odyssey I'm a modern day homer
No misnomer, If they still sleep then that is a coma
Cause the flow like smelling salts perk you up with the aroma
Aromatherapy's clearing me for my takeoff
I don't need anything for the beef like a steak sauce
Mentally free, I can see through all the fake talk
I laid the game out for these squares this a cakewalk
Walked before I crawled flew before I ran
No wonder since a boy I knew I was the man
It's all going to plan god showin his hand
Knowin you can't lose ain't no better feelin
Landed on the top ten years ago, and I'm still here
And I knew it since Jimmy was in that wheelchair
I feel there, ain't nobody here my path but me
And if you pass me, I wasn't slackin', you was lucky
Lucky for a brand only works for some genes
I been in the trenches after mine by any means
But ain't a spot on my record yet as hard as that seems
It's effortless flippin this work balancin on the beam
Yeah, beam on the scope, you know it's dope
I'm givin' notes to those that know to hold it close
So be the future and stand up, this ain't a joke
I wrote, direct, so don't act like you run the show
Showdown wit showstoppers that's a curtain call
Without showin em up but it's just as certain to y'all
We best in show you know number one overall
Like showtime in it's prime it's magic the way we ball
Balmain is what I wanted, but never needed,
I never succeeded, worryin' about who else competed,
I completed every task, that was thrown at my feet,
And been the reason for the tweakin on beats with the rhyme and reason
Reasonable doubt like our debut wasn't a classic
No stretch we'd bounce back with somethin as elastic
Safe, ironic what's cautious bout this approach
Money, iconic frankly known for the notes
Notes taken like remembering a wifi,
It's not magic, they say, wala we say, why lie
We speak the truth from the roots, haters, bye-bye,
So when he say I'm the best in the booth, I say, likewise
Wise guys know to stay clear we made men
Lightnin struck twice we Odin and Raiden
Divinity in every line like words of a hymn
Don't need to know much just know that we really them
Them boys gonna be the one to change the culture
Dodge the vulture's ready for war with a mic in a holster
You hope to ride a wagon on the road to the promised land
And when we do, don't say we never told you
