[Intro: Terrance Moore]

Retro Nuveaux

[Verse 1]

If I get a deal, will it make me less real?

Will I spend a couple mill. to live in Hollywood Hills?

Fuck a chick who's never seen the gritty side of life

I'ma need a wife who knows reality from what they write

I'm hoping, I could become the new Paul Robeson

Chosen, for rapping, directing, acting and toking

Spokesman for people who don't have their equal votes in

Braggadocio, but I know how my dough spend

What's Balmain, if you can't ball man?

What's gold standards, if you can't afford a gold chain?

What's old traditions when they're started in vain

We're all cynics, but we can't complain

We got mad loot, new coupes, all the bitches

But what's that without them Carter riches?

I'm talking 500 stacks, untaxed, it excites me

Might be, Phil Knight, Nuveaux is my Nike

[Hook]

Do I have permission

To kick it

And spit it

Exactly the way you been missing?

I've been down for so long

Flipping shit to get on

Until I make my first hit song

It's like my destiny

Yeah, yeah

Feel like my destiny

[Verse 2]

It's the pack over profit

Cause when pennies in my pocket

Only my pack of real niggas around

It's like that when your stacks go to college

And you spending out of pocket

And the college ain't far out of town

It's violence in the city, it's violent in the street

Defiance ain't pretty in this violent industry

You're working just to eat, when you work on that degree

In time, it'll pay off, just stay off the street

Don't be Bernie Madoff get paid off of one man's defeat

That one man, may A-K off your whole team

Money like life

You better use it while you got it

Cause you can't keep it forever

Cuffin' never been a hobby

I'm like, "oh, kemosabe"

Been workin' up on her body

She straight out the party

I'm like who Scotty deferred to

And when I work dude, you know what it is

On that Seabiscuit manure, that's that champion shit

[Hook]

[Outro: Lauryn Hill]

And deep in my heart

The answer it was in me

And I made up my mind

To define

My own

Destiny