The Plot Thickens - Intellectual

[Terminal Knowledge]

Now they're talking about what's marketable

How in order to sharpen your note, you gotta squander both your heart and your soul

I'm awfully indignant, trying to live blissfull and ignorant

It'll slip through my fingers if opportunity knocks

Drop all them fraudulent gimmicks

Hedging the bets, they try to soften your image

Steps to success that'll cost the percentage

Left in debt from investments and wrongful intentions

Direct from the source, it's a corporate message

In the form of a special endorsement, bless the lord

I hack and choke my way through pulmonary circulation

Rappers are broke because they only pay impersonators

Bottom line the movement is over, lobotomized

All you occupy is a consumerist culture

Now, some do it to eat, some do it for closure

Some lose their esteem, some lose their composure

Some choose to believe they're a troop or a soldier

But they’re pawns on the front line at dawn when the sun rise

Lost but it don't mind, financially desperate

In the presence of management they stand at attention

Pockets low on cash putting knowledge over swag

Talking loads of trash if it's not some balderdash

The second that you sign a check you step inside the lion's den

Don't ever let the seventh sign jeopardize your righteousness

[Hook: Umphrey's McGee & Terminal Knowledge]

Come along

Come with me and I'mma make you a star

Straight to the top, play ball and you'll be famous tomorrow

Sliding deeper into it

Got your digits now wait for the call

Clock ticking and you gave it your all

The plot thickens

[Acumental]

I wanna turn my life over to God

But I gotta get this money first

The piggy bank is hollow and my tummy hurts

Discover me cause being honest there ain't nothing worse

Than hitting bottom looking for a dollar in your mother's purse

A college grad with a hundred grand debt fees

Piling up fast someone cut a damn check please

Cause I want Hummers and jetskis

Upper class bedsheets

Can't say that none of that tempts me

But make an offer, I respectfully decline

On second thought how 'bout you tell me where to sign?

I got bills to pay

Everlasting disarray

My willingness to give a shit is drifting and my dignity has slipped away

Ever since my resoluteness packed up and left

The voice of reason just ran out of breath

I need some oxygen

Accomplishing a lot but still ain't seen a profit yet

So feeling prosperous just ain't an option but I'm confident

We drop another banger and it's over yo

Behave and do your homework you should know it ain't the game it's the controller

So you can't be waiting for a label to approach ya

When the weight is on your shoulders

Gotta make it on your own cause

Would you rather be living in darkness, or dying in the light?

Overexposed, tryna win the fight

Now I tie my shit up tight and hop back into the shade

Where you can rest assured another track is getting made