[Produced by No I.D.]

[Chorus: Elijah Blake]

You niggas ain't real

I think you need to stop pretending

These niggas ain't ill

We know the deal

Niggas ain't on

Here today and the next you're gone

'Cause you niggas ain't real

And we know the deal

Yeah, we know the deal

[Verse 1: Common]

87 strip walker, I'm a shit talker

Fuck all night, yo, depending what I’m off of

Had a white girl I tossed her, black girl I lost her

Break bread with the Stones I'm the rock of Gibraltar

Salt of the earth for what it's worth yo from birth

I was first with a verse, live niggas don't rehearse

Wear the prophets on the shirt, yeah, yeah that's the creed

I can give a fuck if it's real or a weave

I tell you when you look good and keep it right there

I'm as important to the Chi as my nigga Mike Air

Jordan 3s on the feet as we breeze down Lake Shore

These are the days that we bake more to make more

I been living in the moment lately

It's like the love and the hate seem to motivate me

Lady lady, that body crazy

You been working out of this thing, if you're not

Tell me if you're really real

[Chorus: Elijah Blake]

You niggas ain't real

I think you need to stop pretending

These niggas ain't ill

We know the deal

Niggas ain't on

Here today and the next you're gone

'Cause you niggas ain't real

And we know the deal

Yeah, we know the deal

[Verse 2: Common]

I'm the sole controller, opposite of sober

Flow from the south side to south Angola

Mami wanna strip, then yeah, I'ma poke her

And go all in and stretch it out like yoga

I'm flexing, sexing, oiled up like Texas

Survivor, soldier, a child is destined

A star is born in a Chicago storm

The name is Common, I'm anything but the norm, uh

Six in the mornin' something warm informin'

I'm sweating like I'm performin' on tour and

Y'all fucking with this like porn

Put your fists up, 'cause you know I ride on

New planes and plateaus, made it through the black hole

I rhyme in a timeless capsule, I rap for

Niggas in the barber shops and broads that's hot

I run the town, I'm a fucking juggernaut

This shit is real

[Chorus: Elijah Blake]

You niggas ain't real

I think you need to stop pretending

These niggas ain't ill

We know the deal

Niggas ain't on

Here today and the next you're gone

'Cause you niggas ain't real

And we know the deal

You niggas ain't real

I think you need to stop pretending

These niggas ain't ill

We know the deal

Niggas ain't on

Here today and the next you're gone

'Cause you niggas ain't real

And we know the deal

Yeah, we know the deal