[Intro]

One, two

One, two, three, four

[Verse 1]

I just take it

They've been waitin' for their time, contemplatin'

Dealin' with latent issues

Dealin' with other shit that ain't come into fold

'Til they went too far and they had already done sold they soul

It’s all gangster shit they're doin' from the top down to the bottom floor

Sea level

Low pass when I see treble

Third life, how I see eras and be rebels

Be focused

I mean, I've seen enough to know when they ain't bein' honest with me

I'm honorary, fallin' outside of a box

And if they try to put my back against a wall then the problems vary

Enough is enough, rollin' up on me

Then I'm rollin' up my cuffs

If we scrap I'd rather lose, than I bluff, tough

Hard act to follow in this little shop of horrors

You ain't promised tomorrow

I'm just getting started

Old head still gettin' carded

Never written off or disregarded

Guess I'm just an artist

I still paint like it's different drawings

It's where the art is

Locked in to get my pardon

[Hook]

Pardon me

Pardon me

[Verse 2]

I ain't good with sixteen, I need some more to spit

Beat bleedin', I ain't over it, nothing corporate

Incorporate what I learned and pay the mortgages

Never forfeiting or forbidding what the greatness of my aura is

I'm orbiting, my son gave me more livin'

Needed time to get it right 'cause I was tour-ridden

Played the backseat just to get more driven

Cut a rug and cut more ribbons

Grand openings, celebrations

I ain't walkin' nothin' back that I said

Only accelerating, moving forward

Goal that I'm moving toward

Where I wanted to be is where I fell in place in

Existence, speak it into

On my Yoda, on my Guru

Hard to earn, but I make my quota

Learned my lesson, cheffin', no bakin' soda

The time that I'm investin' make me take it over

[Hook]

Pardon me

Pardon me (Pardon me)

Pardon me

[Outro]

You know, there's the, there's the three stages I talk about

The creative, the creative, uh, sequence

The first stage is imitation

I don't care who you are, where you come from

I don't care if you're a artist, poet, I mean musician, poet, you a painter, sculptor

There's somebody that you see and you say, "Damn I want to do it just like that"

So you pretty much imitate, that's your first, that's your first guide

Then somewhere along there you develop, uh, what I call a passage to emulation

Now what, what do I mean by that?

You still have that other person

You know, that is your main influence

But you're startin' to find a little bit of yourself

And if you're fortunate enough, you go to the third stage, innovation

That's when you establish who you are