Idols

[00:10.80] Look, long live your idols, may they never be your rivals
[00:14.21] Rakim was like Jesus, Chuck D wrote the Bible
[00:17.13] G-Rap was God, I learned to punch from Kane
[00:19.93] Lived in Queens so on Farmers we would see Todd James
[00:22.69] Remember the cover of Black Panther with the fat gold chains
[00:25.68] Then Slick Rick had a million of 'em
[00:27.67] So I wanted a million of 'em
[00:28.85] Yeah, back in my first days
[00:31.40] When we ain't know who was the nicest nigga in third Base
[00:34.03] Which MC was the worst before my MC search
[00:37.34] Some niggas thought Pete Nice, me, I thought MC Serch
[00:40.27] This before I ever met M, way before hammer dance
[00:43.49] This when I was asking Carrie Anne to make me hammer pants
[00:46.18] Smooth B was dope, Greg Nice had character
[00:49.00] Before I ever knew image would even matter, bruh
[00:52.19] Ice Cube raised me, gotta mention Gang Starr
[00:54.86] Me and Premier tight right now, we in the same squad
[00:57.64] Always tell me stories on the game and how it changed, y'all
[01:00.39] Life don't always come full circle, I can't explain, God
[01:03.29] Teacher to student
[01:04.73] The overlap and the generational gap I'm seeing is prudent
[01:08.00] So when I speak of pursuing
[01:09.46] What we deemed as mere dreams and illusions
[01:11.69] Albeit a nuisance
[01:12.97] I'm brewing from eyes that have seen through it
[01:15.00] It's no time for even a body to be reclusive
[01:17.75] Execs will feed you excuses, and if its seasoned, you chew it
[01:20.70] We got old ideologies, I think we should renew it
[01:23.51] The psychology for some of that reasoning's even stupid
[01:26.69] For me it's deeper than music, much deeper than music
[01:29.31] They stole our musical freedom, up next it's freedom of music
[01:32.12] As a tenth grade dropout I'm watching the aftermath
[01:35.10] Of everything streaming and doing the extremist
[01:37.43] This is true shit
[01:38.25] Don't take a genius to see the genius is stewing
[01:40.80] Ain't got the reach to do it, so let me reach you can do it
[01:43.92] It go
[02:06.02] Look, look
[02:07.05] If you live long you see your idols be your rivals
[02:09.62] Hov was like the GOAT, congratulations on Tidal
[02:12.67] Salute, you broke through many barriers for us
[02:15.40] When we couldn't move the needle you carried us for us
[02:18.30] Look forward, maybe in 30 years they'll implore us
[02:21.05] Push to the back of the red ignore us
[02:23.58] I think we nearing that border
[02:24.90] Mr. Carter, who gon' fare for the authors
[02:26.85] They only there to extort us
[02:28.34] Who gon be there to record us, nigga
[02:30.44] Even deeper who gon' care for our daughters
[02:32.64] And our sons just the vultures
[02:34.44] We keep handing them the culture
[02:35.78] And the hip hop that raised this kid is one that spoke up
[02:38.54] I'm pessimistic, I won't even get my hopes us
[02:41.41] But if it's gon' all implode before it blow up
[02:44.47] Need more than overcharging for what they did to the Cold Crush
[02:47.62] Just a PSA in lieu of the movement
[02:50.22] Can't get a quarter back now, what about future music
[02:53.14] Really
[03:21.16] So if I'm gone when tomorrow come
[03:23.17] The mission for my only born when tomorrow come
[03:26.79] How will we receive songs when tomorrow come
[03:29.48] Here's my study for understudies to borrow from
[03:32.32] New Rage and Machine, nigga, we got this
[03:34.82] Is what you hear when label ideas meet a plot twist
[03:37.68] Used to be faded from the killer talk
[03:41.58] Now we suffocating from the pillow talk
[03:43.70] Every verse like, damn, y'all love chivalry
[03:46.00] They offer me fame as a man, I chose dignity
[03:49.16] Guess everything ain't for everybody
[03:51.73] Maybe everybody ain't for everything
[03:54.76] It ain't a thing, I'm looking through my career
[03:56.92] I'm more the long game dude on how I choose to prepare
[03:59.65] Not the richest, just the sickest, ask the dudes in your tier
[04:02.55] Knew if I made it to the top I'd hate the views from up there
[04:05.38] We don't value the same shit, I spoke through a despair
[04:08.17] Stood out before it was cool to be weird, my nigga, you just appear
[04:11.66] Before these niggas hit puberty
[04:13.87] I was online talking like it's just you and me
[04:17.06] The foolery, but since we hopping like rabbits
[04:19.42] Calling everything that's dropping a classic
[04:21.81] With all this modern day practice
[04:23.35] Tactics that should rot in the ashes
[04:25.24] Some are cut from the same cloth
[04:26.58] Some have forgotten the fabric, listen
[04:28.55] Raised a nigga that you rather leave at bay
[04:30.99] She ain't walking in naked, she ain't fashionably late
[04:33.52] Have her bring your good shoes so you can dodge around the rumors
[04:36.28] And then shoot to light the room up like like Robert Downey Jr
[04:39.34] Fifth to the court tell I did this before
[04:42.08] Without a bearing ask Karen, nothing civil in war
[04:44.75] It's civil war, to judging off the shit that I saw
[04:47.43] I'm trying to leave it so our kids'll have more
[04:49.57] Tomorrow is bigger than all
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