[Verse]

I caught a glimpse of my soul in the mirror

My reflection, it sung a tune to me

He said you've gotta leave to seize your opportunity

With options few, then I opted to choose a newer me

Infused it with my muse and I used it to brew it musically

[?] while I choose to be

Stuck inside the core and these metaphors [are tool?] to me

It chewed on me, it muted me, it booted me, refuted me

It threw me in the sewage, hooked me up after it’s through with me

Then accused me for being foolish

My clique tight, one step from being Jewish

I see you Lewis

And you could still hear [it crested?] in me

I guess these other MC's can sense [oppression?] in me

It was a lesson to me

But now I understand

Never look for handouts, see I'm my own man

I built this shit with my own hands

Graduated from tadpole to grown man

In the ?, was deep, still I’d never seek defeat

Keep the heat, ski the beat, Carolina Freak A Leak

No Petey Pablo though

See, this that Nas hoe flow

I take what guys don't know

And make it reach the street

And break it down so they can understand

I went from spitting on corners to rocking summer jams

In Hip Hop I'm the sudden man

I'm going out like the Dunham Man