Verse 1:

They say money don’t make you happy, I’d rather be sad and rich

Chilling on a beach, piff in the air with baddest bitch

While the kids laugh in back as they're running up and down

So I refuse to remain underground until I’m under the ground

The music industry is the new plantation

I refuse to sign a deal and spend my lifetime slaving

But there’s two sides to the coin, making it harder to choose

Because you could win label, but a part of you lose

I’m more Rakim then I am Cassper

More Hip-hop than Pantsula, hope to see you in the life after

Since a kid I been pro, that’s word to mama

Clock tick as time moves, but my pen never Been sharper

Been sharper, Ben Sharper that’s wordplay

People with the same skin as mine are dying in the worst way

Didn’t cry when XXX passed, but will Nas do

Jesus might return on the same day as Pac do

Chorus:

I knew the world was mine, I ain’t learn that from watching Scarface

Nas taught me I’m a young king, that’s because my heart’s brave

It ain’t hard to tell I represent, it’s one love

One time for your mind, throw your deuces up above

Let’s take a trip down memory lane

Back to the genesis, before melodies, man

I heard life is a bitch, well imma make her mine

Half the time, I'm in my LES state of mind

Verse 2:

I figure it’ll all work out if you put the work in

That’s why I spend hours in the studio putting work in

Every penny I’m worth it, word to Irv I murder with the ink

Abracadabra your favorite rapper quicker than you could blink

There he go rapping all his old shit

Your new shit couldn’t amount to my old scripts

Really hope that you know this, I’m focused

Because it’s a few folks counting on me, I can’t blow this

Born in '94, feeling like ‘94 Nas

Still ill with the matic's, serving ‘94 pies

That’s plug talk, I be in the booth cheffing for my Cuban link

I spit doper than any line or rhyme you can think

When it was written, I ain’t have a single clue

That I would be one of the greatest, mic check 1 2

Been on different stages, we was rapping on crates

Back when we would bootleg beats and drop several tapes

Chorus:

I knew the world was mine, I ain’t learn that from watching Scarface

Nas taught me I’m a young king, that’s because my heart’s brave

It ain’t hard to tell I represent, it’s one love

One time for your mind, throw your deuces up above

Let’s take a trip down memory lane

Back to the genesis, before melodies, man

I heard life is a bitch, well imma make her mine

Half the time, I'm in my LES state of mind

I knew the world was mine, I ain’t learn that from watching Scarface

Nas taught me I’m a young king, that’s because my heart’s brave

It ain’t hard to tell I represent, it’s one love

One time for your mind, throw your deuces up above

Let’s take a trip down memory lane

Back to the genesis, before melodies, man

I heard life is a bitch, well imma make her mine

Half the time, I'm in my LES state of mind