VERSE ONE

I grew up the inner-city, surrounded by bad boys, nothin' like Diddy

Where dudes would punch a stranger in his face for something shitty

Like getting dropped in front of your friends from a girl that’s pretty

All because she wanna date a dude considered much more gritty

Where jokers step to you to stab you cos they hate your brother

All because he's dating some chick that they failed to make they lover

Where two friends as teenagers got each others back

Fast-forward, now one is supplying the other with crack

Where children kicked out of the class because they didn't listen

Fucked they education to become a guest inside a prison

Where beautiful chicks with infinite prospects

Tagged themselves to a loser like inanimate objects, yo’

I was surrounded by this bullshit all day, everyday

But didn't stop me doing shit ...Lemons? fuck it, Lemonade

Cos I understood that my decisions were forever made

By the brilliance that I was given just to levitate

CHORUS

Like magic

Levitate (scratch)

(yo), like magic

Levitate (scratch)

Like magic

Levitate (scratch)

(yo), like magic

I don't stop (scratch)

VERSE TWO

I came up in a time of street altercations, dudes fighting chicks

Prepared to beat a brother with a loose wall brick

Bust his eye, put him hospital, got my tooth chipped

Where chicks caught reputations as a scandalous bitch

Forgot to mention, two days suspension, no intervention

Teachers could fuck around and give the wrong kid a detention

So this student put a bag over the teacher's head

Beat him with a metal pipe then went home

Left him for dead, crazy fucka

I'm from a place where the olders sent you out there

To steal a sports jersey, but I tell em' no without fear

Without apprehension, hesitation or reluctances

Weed smoke and pill popping led to other substances

No trust funds, no imperial materials

The only silver spoon I had was sugar on my cereal yo'

I was surrounded by this all day everyday

But I put my head to something bigger so I'd levitate

CHORUS

BREAKDOWN

Scratching (breakdown)

VERSE THREE

I’m raised up from a place where rappers wanna fight you

For being frightfully nice

For every time you made a beat and grabbed the mic

When they pull you in the corner, tell you change your name

Cos there’s another DL on the DL and you doused his flame

"oh I'm sorry"

I’m just trying to make it out the hood just like the rest of them

Took a bunch of beats and now I'm verbally molesting them

You can call this a walk in the park like a pedestrian

So I'mma live it like the man I am and fuck your estrogen

I'm here to be the best of them, I guess I’ll be a pest again

Until my life's a testament to every living specimen

And yet again just when they thought I wouldn't pass the test again

I gathered with my tribe and so I guess I'm on a quest again

Autonomous prominence, I am synonymous with dominance

I'm never doing nothing with incompetence

Cos we surrounded by it all day every day

And that's a good enough reason for us to wanna levitate

CHORUS

BREAKDOWN