[Verse 1]

Twenty five years, twenty five years

Wasn't 'posed to make it past twenty five years

That's how long they say the black man lifespan

Like, damn, time to kick it into high gear

Had a fair share of times had to dry tears

Put it all in the rhymes make the vibes clear

Friends and family, you always know I'm right here

I can't see no others succumb to the nightmare

Life don't fight fair, no it'll sucker punch you

Yelling WorldStar while it laugh and uppercut you

Throwing hands, it'll hit you with the duck and one, two

Till you slumping in the gutter looking bloodied and bruised

I hit the blunt with my crew until we up in the moon

Until I'm paranoid, uncomfortable too

Feel like I'm stuck in a loop, soul sucking the new black

The shucking for others and all the fuckery due

[Chorus]

Word, Kanye, we still alive

We wasn't 'posed to make it past twenty five

But we here

But we here

Word, Kanye, we still alive

We wasn't 'posed to make it past twenty five

But we here

But we here

[Verse 2]

Twenty five years, twenty five years

Wasn't 'posed to make it past twenty five years

Grateful that I've lasted to arrive here

Thankful to my parents to and my fine peers

I used to drink until I'd black out

And wake up to puddle of my vomit like, what's that 'bout

Until one of my homies told me that's the way you die

I guess I'm glad that I'm alive and I ain't pass to other sides

I ain't bachelored up or smashed as much as actually I'd like

But I been passionate 'bout rapping damn near half of my whole life

That's why I'm crafting in the lab and why I'm crafty on the mic

Until the ceiling it is cracking and I'm basking in the light

I been strapped up for the fight, but I'm still waiting now

Pacing, formulating ways to make it to the sacred ground

Like why it take so fucking long to get my name out?

That's M.A.D.I.C., it's MADic, let it rang out

[Chorus]

Word, Kanye, we still alive

We wasn't 'posed to make it past twenty five

But we here

But we here

Word, Kanye, we still alive

We wasn't 'posed to make it past twenty five

But we here

But we here

[Verse 3]

Twenty five years, twenty five years

Now I'm twenty seven looking in the rear view mirror

Gotta clear peer, like why you did that shit?

Why you ain't do that? Why you stayed through this?

Sometimes I wonder if I may have wasted

My place at NYU by being lazy and complacent

Staying with the same chick and keeping in my bubble

'Stead of dating and embracing the freedom of the struggle

Second guessing every thing I ever done

Like was it worth it in the end or it's a curse that I have brung

I loved the church when I was young until I grew into my own man

They said God the only way, I had my own plans

I keep it dolo on the low been thinking deeper

Roll tobacco with the reefer, light it up for Wiz Khalifa

I'm a chiefer, weed leaf dealers in my beeper

Hi, my name is MADic, peace seeker, nice to meet ya

[Chorus]

Word, Kanye, we still alive

We wasn't 'posed to make it past twenty five

But we here

But we here

Word, Kanye, we still alive

We wasn't 'posed to make it past twenty five

But we here

But we here

Word, Kanye, we still alive

We wasn't 'posed to make it past twenty five

But we here

But we here

Word, Kanye, we still alive

We wasn't 'posed to make it past twenty five

But we here

But we here