Yeah & Nah - Intellectual

[Verse 1]

I've been learning how to be quiet, I've been learning how to be violent

Have my demonstration in silence or just end the waiting with riots

Put my business out in that street or be discreet with mine and keep minding

Turn that cheek of mine and keep smiling or my peeps and I be wilin'

All these rules are made for upholding, pick up pieces of them I broke and

Best protect my neck 'cause Inspectah Deck said they be out for your throat and

I'm just breathing out in the open being fresh is all that I know and

Just now learning about discerning how we reap the garden we sow and

Yeah my karma bad and I know it, any heart I've had, I done stole it

I got a haunting past and a daunting task of owning up to my calling

Any mess I made from the dress I dropped and the dresser top where I left a note

Expressing why I just shut the door and left the spot was definitely not

The smartest choice but heart and voice don't always see things eye to eye

Bird and bee sting ain't a you and me thing, just the laws that life applied

That I'm living by and I'm getting by and this is why, I watch my back

When karma attacks I just want to be ready, but ain't no preparing for that, rock steady

[Hook]

Is it all about the business? Yeah and nah

All for the music and lyrics? Yeah and nah

Do I fuck with niggas? Yeah and nah

Do I care about who gon' hear? Yeah and nah

Am I in it for the fame? Yeah and nah

Do I care if you know my name? Yeah and nah

And do I like to entertain? Yeah and nah

Am I really built for this game? Yeah and nah

[Verse 2]

One eye always open, attentions undivided

Focusing while y'all scoping in on the moves I make cause I'm rising

This yeast flow from the east coast, three piece flow and this bespoke

Never off of consignment, what y'all speak when I don't be buying

I judge a nigga off what he do, not what he say or who he with

Y'all talk but ain't even bout shit, let them keep gossiping, I don't mind them

Pathetic really I find them cause their future seems behind them

And they mad at me cause I gradually presume with my inclining

I got no choice, this all I know, this all I want, this all I do

Don't blame me, you the man in the mirror but the fingers pointing, all at you

While y'all was drinking and smoking, I was thinking and knowing this would happen

Y'all was hoping for action, I was making it so a ship with a captain

Cutting out all the distractions, can't make a living relaxing, already learned

Nobody giving me turns, that is no question so don't bother asking

I just go for the match and stay on the path and burn, this shit is lasting

Life is a test of your nerves, only a bitch would think I'm a bastard, word