[Part 1]

[Verse 1: T Clipse & Quis]

When it's cold as the city gets

Trynna make it home when the winter hits

I rose from the lineage we jumped from the boats

'Cause we know it gets hideous

And some living penny-less

Get a penny for thoughts I can lend you mine

A billion dollars ain’t enough I need plenty time

Petty wives got a nigga looking Pennywise

And since we talking time I'm ahead of mine

How you plan on going up if you afraid to fly?

Can he rap like me can she rap like me?

Can they snap on beats? ain't a head in mind

I’m ahead of my time and ahead of myself

Killing every line every time man in stealth

With the rhymes know they felt all the cries I had dealt

Days in the rain paid in timing and wealth

Pain always rose better days never came

The fakers they change and the real stayed the same

Stayed in my lane in man my baggage to claim

Im a savage for cabbage I can’t let em have it

I’m spazzin' if they throwing flack on my name

Might as well throw they pack in the grave

I battled the pain and hustled and haggled for change

I came up was mad and insane

I blast off like back of the plane

Im spitting what Reagan made back in the days

No back and fourth if you be capping for fame

I ain’t claimin' a sign or a color to bang

They was in for the fame I was never for clout

All the fakes come about when the bitch nigga snakes come about

Can’t stand the complacence around

But I move with intelligence

If the top is the spot then I won’t stop 'til I'm getting in

Now the cops spinning blocks for my melanin

Taught me to see through the optics in different lens

Taught me that the opps can be dressed as friends

She thought we’d be better off just as friends

But that energy got shifted cuz of differences

And those differences just amplified our distances

Had me feeling like a motherfuckin' kid again

Had me down like Ritalin

But I'm still up to work when it’s time to go and get a check

And I could barely stand

When I'm working on beats that's the only time I sit again

Sentences turn you to a second class citizen

So think about the problems that you get before you get in it

It's Clipse from The Den spit this message 'til I represent

[Part 2]

[Verse 2: T Clipse]

I just want my mother to be proud of me, my brother to be proud of me

My uncle be surprised, and have my father not look down on me

Every single day got these hardships they surrounding me

I'm just trynna shoot for the stars shit they be doubting me (Why?)

And I'm still shouting free niggas that looked out for me

M.L.K. was cool but I'm starting to see what Malcolm see

It’s like the fuckin' government been practicing some alchemy

The way they take my sisters and my brothers out so countlessly

1 shot 2 shot 3 then he down to sleep

5 shot 6 shot he bleeding flooding out the street

7 to brain then 8 kills the pain

1 more to the side now his heart ain't even pounding G

Since we talking numbers fuck 12 'til I'm half of that

Underneath the earth I rode the hearse to my aftermath

If we all cursed then my people cursed again after that

These bullets don't hurt enough I think I need a battle axe

Took my time away from me

They took my pride away from me

I was innocent but still it wasn’t safe for me

(If you're going to a club, and you see the police there when you pull up

And the lights flashing what are you gonna do?

Probably turn around and go home right?)

I got scars that will never go away from me

I wrote that song and now my pain is deeper than their hate for me

I don't wanna get tackled but if I take a knee

Then they gon' blow me out and they don't even got a cake for me

Pigs were sniffing out a problem when there wasn’t one in sight

Lemme take a second and take you back to the other night

I was chiefin' in the V but that wasn’t the problem

I was parked illegally and someone must’ve called em

Passenger was getting crazy talkin' bout i know my rights

I would’ve done the same but the difference is I wasn’t white

Then they smelt the tree and tried to give ya boy a couple strikes

Checked me on some bullshit but I got to see another night

A couple months passed so this incident was recently

Lemme start by putting a middle finger to EPD

He asked what I was doing I told the truth acted decently

I tried to go home but they stopped insisted to speak with me

Asked me stupid questions so I gave em stupid answers back

I swear he told his partner give em trouble 'cause this mans is black

They didn’t have a warrant I didn’t commit a crime

So I'm asking can I go cuz y’all just wasting my time

Now they start getting hostile, cop 1 checks the whip

Cop 2 sits me down and he’s talking it’s irrelevant

And he knows they wrong I can see it in his face too

But facing one is hard enough so how am I gon' face two

Violated privacy started sending threats and shit

A couple days pass and I can’t even get some rest and this

Just goes to show that sometimes ignorance is bliss

And sometimes Intelligence can be yo detriment

(They were just trynna ruin my night, and that's what they did

And then, when we be goin, now they're checking registration on parked cars. Now you got cops checking registration on a parked car? Just looking for shit)

(Outro: T Clipse)

Ain't a thing that can break me

Ain't nobody gonna break me now

Nothings ever gonna break me

No ones ever gonna break me down

Ain't a thing that can break me

Ain't nobody gonna break me now

Nothings ever gonna break me

No ones ever gonna break me down