[Sampled Intro: Will Smith]

Where I excel is ridiculous! Sickening work ethic!

You know, while the other guy's sleeping, I'm working and while the other guy's eating, I'm working..

[Verse 1:]

I can't work no 9 to 5

Man, I gotta get it

The people are sleeping, I ain't even tired

Just up in this kitchen

I'm trying to make something to reach 'em

Your favorite's a lie

He don't live what he's spitting

But you still believe him, ain't really surprised

Don't it look so appealing, all that money and the women

Man, let me kill it

I've been patiently waiting

Been patiently waiting to catch 'em all slipping

I was sent by the Father

To leave the whole game in the fetal position

Man, I'm on a mission

Trying to point em to my God that is risen

Man, don't get it twisted

Just cause I'm a Christian

Don't mean I ain't spitting

The illest of writtens

It's in my bones

With every fiber of my being

I was destined to do this

A lot of them couldn't see it

I've always thought in the future

Already past the present

Cause you only as good as all your last successes

But that ain't the goal

Money will come and then it goes

I don't want the world if I'm just finna lose my soul

Allow me to be frank, they ain't talking about Nathan

So please don't engage me with that meaningless conversation

Boy, I'm focused

[Hook:]

They can't tell me

What I can't do

If God's on my side

Then I can't lose

If you in the way

Please get behind me

I'm just focused

Please don't mind me

Losing friends and I'm losing sleep

But they say your ends

Justify your means

So I'm just working

I'm just focused

I'm just focused

[Verse 2:]

Ain't no weapon formed against me

That'll ever prosper

They taking shots

But I ain't a ever been a drunk

I just kept my mouth shut

I been working on my craft

And I've been at this for some years

I promise this ain't what you want

I'm sick of being underestimated for my age

The penmanship is tangible

While I fill this page

I want you to feel the animosity

That's brewing up inside me

Somebody tell Bobby that Mitchell a problem

And finna catch another body

Man, I'm really outchea

Working twice as hard as these grown men

I'm totally unrecognizable to old friends

This for the ones that was claiming I couldn't do it

Who told me I can't survive

If I'm only chasing this music, ah!

I stopped caring for people's opinions of me

They told me I was stupid, they told me I was ugly

Allow me to be frank, you ain't talking about Nathan

So please don't engage me with that meaningless conversation

I'm focused

[Hook:]

They can't tell me

What I can't do

If God's on my side

Then I can't lose

If you in the way

Please get behind me

I'm just focused

Please don't mind me

Losing friends and I'm losing sleep

But they say your ends

Justify your means

So I'm just working

I'm just focused

I'm just focused