In Retrospect

By Logic

On Ultra 85

Released on August 9, 2024

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[Intro: Logic]

What?

[Chorus: Logic & T Man The Wizard]

Here we are, money on my mind (Now)

Here we are, place most never find (Now)

Here we are, I'm not coming down (Now)

Here we are, a lifetime from the ground (Now)

Here we are, money on my mind

How much do it cost to keep it real with you?

Here we are, place most never find

How much do it cost to be a real nigga?

Here we are, I'm not coming down

Open your eyes and see the real picture

Here we are, a lifetime from the ground

How much do it cost to keep it real?


[Verse: Logic]

It's goin' down like that

Maybach, I'm livin' it up like I never could in the days way back

Write it, record it

Let the people absorb it

I'm morbid and want more of it

On the 101, floorin' it

The definition of a shmiracle rapper

It's been a decade, it's a miracle I'm still a rapper (Now)

Yeah, you the furthest from innovative

No wonder the people hate it

In the back of the Mercedes, gettin' faded

When it comes to the flow, you know I confiscate it, then made it better

I pull strings like the guitarist in Greta Van Fleet

My camp meet at the pinnacle like Everest like Mike Posner

Far from a poser

My flows are crazy, I thought I told you

Better hold your money tight 'fore I snatch that shit

Roll it, light it up, and then pass that shit

People got problems, but use substances to mask that shit

We past that shit

You better seek therapy, human

What the fuck is we doing?

Killin' one another for nothin'

Man, most of these people is bluffin'

Actin' like they got the world in they hand, but really got nothin'

Why you think they Twitter fingers be achin'?

'Cause they forsaken what it means to be a person

And worsen they mental daily by involvin' themselves in extracurricular activities

I am the blackest white boy that you've ever seen

Nigga, please

It's apparent my skin is transparent

Only color I ever really gave a fuck about was green

Only people I fuck with is my family, friends, and my team

Twenty albums in under a decade, bitch, I'm a machine

Talkin' 'bout you don't like Logic, bitch, what the fuck do you mean?

Why you listenin' to me then? Why you watchin' on your screen?

'Cause I'm all you have in the world at this moment

And the fact that I'm winnin' and you ain't winnin' hurts, don't it?

You see, I know you're not a hater, not really, not deep down

You just got a lot goin' on that you keep deep underground

Maybe you was molested, even beaten as a child

And when you see other people this happy, it drives you wild

How did I know this? How do I know this?

'Cause I myself was beaten and molested

God drug me through the fire everyday, I was tested

'Cause really when you look at me, what you see is a mirror

That reflects who you wish you really was, but even clearer

And makes you uncomfortable that I'm comfortable with who I am

That's the reason that you hate and the reason that you Stan

The reason you obsess, you're my biggest fan

So my advice is seek therapy and find clarity

I know you hate me, but I love you with sincerity

[Chorus: Logic & T Man the Wizard]

Here we are, money on my mind

How much do it cost to keep it real with you?

Here we are, a place most never find

How much do it cost to be a real nigga?

Here we are, I'm not coming down

Open your eyes and see the real picture

Here we are, a lifetime from the ground

How much do it cost to keep it real?

Here we are, money on my mind

How much do it cost to keep it real with you?

Here we are, a place most never find

How much do it cost to be a real nigga?

Here we are, I'm not coming down

Open your eyes and see the real picture

Here we are, a lifetime from the ground

How much do it cost to keep it real?

[Outro: Thomas & Kai]

Thank God for synthetic gravity and ribeye that never came from a cow

I still don't understand how we grow meat without livestock

The marvels of AI, my friend

But wasn't it also because of AI that every country in the entire world deployed nukes as an auto defense against Russia's initial attack on the New Americas?

Mmm, I mean, but the steak though

Ugh, so good