[Intro]

Damn, another beat, another EP, it's another thing

Y’all better listen to it, because I'm tired of being irrelevant in this place, come on!

[Verse]

Lately, as of recent

I've been feeling I’ve been going retrograde in my ways

Need a helping aid, ‘cuz one step forward

Takes me back a couple decades

No fade, the 2003, birth year of I

While watching Stanley Kubrick with the sound off

Lacking clarity, but mastered brevity

To the masses with funny rhyme schemes under hidden pain living

But the chicks, they dig it

On a constant daily grind, by God

Try to get approval from my peers and parents

That stuff be hard, but

The process of a young black kid working ass off

For a couple lousy co-signs be harder

Just to make sure I ain't working as cashier at a big chain job

Or a squatter near a gas station selling drugs to the youth for a quick buck

Providing money for the family, but instead, I'm in my room

Making beats and blunts do run

Low-key wishing someone with enough gats come could Big L me

But I know God got me in his plans

So while I'm here, I ain't fronting

Catch me sticking middle fingers up to White America

Made me hate everything I stood for

And tried to turn I into a good negro

The media perception haunts us

Stick up kids don't last long

Imma tell it to you twice, these stick up kids don't last long

Imma tell it to you right now