[Verse 1]

Welcome to the 9th Dimension

Where ya dreams come true, put you in the right position

Gotta set the mood, roll somethin’ nigga light a incense

This that Badu meets Ja Rule

This that praying with the ahkis in Istanbul

This that I ain't got a dollar but at least I'm cool

I keep a level head

My father raised me a thoroughbred

This a moment to say the shit that I never said

Cut from the cloth of love it's woven in every thread

This street life unspoken don't catch the heavy lead

If this the life you choose, you gotta move appropriate

And my advice to you, is stay away from opiates

Stay woke, stay focus, stray away from hopelessness (huh)

I know the greener grass is hard to choose

And when you deep in concrete it make it hard to move

And when ya habitat is trapped it make hard to prove

That you could break the chain, and make a change in all the views

Of this land we occupying cause it's all illusion

Defying all the rules just to promote inclusion

Oxymoron, never left the hood but driving in a foreign

But just to see you live, I'll trade in all my organs

I just really need more time

To organize the team, and immortalize the dream

And that box logo never signified supreme

I'm dignified and well positioned on the larger scheme

I practiced to be an author, but I was born a king

And we all are, and we all sing

And we all are, and we all sing

[Hook]

We slicker this year, we slicker this year

We just tryna maintain, without a nickel to spare (yeah)

We slicker this year, we slicker this year

We just tryna maintain, without a nickel to spare (yeah)

We slicker this year, we slicker this year

We just tryna maintain, without a nickel to spare (yeah)

We slicker this year, we slicker this year

We just tryna maintain, without a nickel (a nickel)

[Verse 2]

Word to 9th, we all certified kings and queens

If I don't ever sleep, then tell me whose in charge of dreams

My momma talk to me bout patience, what does all it mean?

And they always doing maintenance but it's hardly clean

Street soldiers dying martyrs in the name of green

They arrest us on the basis of a racist theme

Got my niggas beating cases, what a wasteful thing

I'm tryna take us different places to escape the scene

Yeah, I'll set the precedence

And I'll take us all out of the hood and cop a residence

And I'll hit a lick wit you and get rid of the evidence

Remember skipping school, and rolling up, and sipping medicine

We was sick of rules, unruly niggas, ain't know better then

We were truly rookie niggas, but we felt like veterans

Couldn't wait to get the cookie just to go and tell our friends

Committing hella sins

Getting high to reach the heavens, then it’s back to hell again

I'm just tryna restore the broken pieces

I'm just hoping that freedom is close enough to reach it

I just hope learning life enough to go and teach it

Why you think I write this stuff, ain't for no other reason

But to empower a legacy with some power

To go and conquer the world and take reign like a shower

And build an empire like the tower

[Outro]

"I don’t think they hear you Cyph, say it louder"

To empower a legacy with some power

To go and conquer the world and take reign like a shower

And build an empire like the tower

I’m tryna make my family proud and make God prouder