I had a vision where I kept on spitting teeth out

In my palm a neverending pile

Had me creeped out

Speaks loud 'bout the fear of not keeping my word

I respect the passionate

That other shit's for the birds

Bunch of bucktoothed fuckmooks

Catch a quick one-two

Guatemalan Sun Tzu

This is what it's come to

Anything lost can be found

Except for time wasted

A direct hand towards your own annihilation

I'll be your scapegoat

Pin the world's woes onto me

Case closed

I don't care, I'm living comfortably

Carry the burden of art

Learned it was ours

Used the devices in my arsenal

Assembled these bars (what else?)

Fragmented moments from the memories decayed

How can you sleep at night when your energies were saved?

Accumulate a lifetime's worth of lifelines

That I kept safe

Just in case I lost my right mind

We are alive in the strangest times

Major declines

But with more openings than ever

So I take it in stride

The problem's in the heart of men

Who are convinced they can break it down like cartilage

Screaming that they gotta win

Strictly partisan to to the cause

I broke all ten commandments just to follow up the 48 laws

Go ahead and scream it loud:

No matter how hard you push me

Y'all won't ever, ever keep me down

I wanna show you where my spirit dwells

Not every single part of you should be put up for sale

Skip the details

For your consideration these are pieces of myself

From as high as heaven's peak

Down to the recesses of hell

My recollections from the old tenement days

When fam dukes broke even

Making minimum wage

Stationed out on 21st

Northside of the Met

Never lacked food, clothes or shelter

Everything blessed

I had a bowl cut

And while everyone was running 'round trying to get fresh

I was like: "so what"

I was more concerned with building up a universe

And reading through the lies to figure out just what the truth was worth

Turns out it wasn't much

No one gave a motherfuck

And then it hit me with the force of an uppercut

I was so naive

But some of the things I've seen

I swear to god you have no idea

A disemboweled cat

Guts dangling on a loading dock

The frozen glares of many

A love that was scalding hot

I've seen the California sunset

Swam the Rio Dulce

From strokes of genius to "how could I be so stupid?"

Such is the duality that lives in us all

The sort of thing that makes you wanna give up the ball

I find solace in the chaos

It's just a part of the game

So play on, playa

I stay on the radar

The space-case stoner by the corner bodega

Got on for dolie, brought my cronies

I don't owe 'em no favors

This is for everyone who's been pushed to the fringe

But never let being excluded taint the feeling within

I'ma get my Bob Marley on

Filled to the brim

And elevate with my audience

Do it again

If they could only see me now

No matter how hard you tried

Y'all can never ever keep me down