[Intro]

Takes none

Ahem

(Sniffle)

Attempt number one

Let me flip to the page

[Verse]

[So like?] this been so crazy (So crazy)

My history arranging

And I hold my blunt down with my lighter just to light up the [pavement?] (Light up the pavement)

Ay yeah, I'm already faded

Ay man yo pleas can’t explain shit (Can't explain shit)

Wasting your time, truth is sprinkled with lies

I'm just walking through the valley of death

Weed in my breath

Rose from the crypt, ripped the roots from my flesh

It’s best you stay outta play

We cannot attain it, wasting your mind tryna strive for greatness

I got some shrooms in my pocket, like what up?

All this fucking money make me wanna take a dump

But I ain't got shit and I ain't got none

No time for conversations

Been waiting forever to drop this shit, no wonder I'm constipated

I've been making food out of all you cats

Pussies hate until they scratch

Running the motto, we running it back

Got me feeling so dizzy just running these laps around yo ass

Take a breather

Putting up posters for people that stole my ether

Save the crying, I'm a dog, no lion

Get it?

You pussies sweat and leaving stains on the covers

Twist on the paper and watch as my brain starts bubbling

I like the world but our states kinda troubling

Kid with his head down in the back of the class

I was thinking "Fuck school and writing raps"

Still thinking it

In this dream, you blink and it's gone by

Wondering the cost to write it back

Write it out, run a lap

Or pretend I wrote a track

Never smelled the roses while bent over, watch the others pass by

Looking out the window as I ash mine

Yeah you got bars but you'll never get past mine

Within a hourglass tryna capture and pass

So when an hour pass, I bet you it feels like seconds

And lately I’ve been digging deeper tryna write out perspectives

Drop some knowledge and observe the perception

You’re balling during a recession

Lost in repression? Who says you can't get it back

Just cause you can turn your back doesn’t mean that it's gotta happen

Rapping just to try and find my place

Behind every ace is a jack and a joker, I'm laughing

[Outro - Nas on the artistic process]

"You don't wanna miss going from zero to sixty

You don’t wanna miss the dash in-between

That's a good time right there

It may be a little scary, you might be a little nervous at times but..

At the end of the day, if you just go from point A-Z like that, there's nowhere else to go"