Higher

[00:01.56] Yeah
[00:03.56] You know, I've been around for a while now
[00:07.11] Not sure if I have much left to prove
[00:10.64] Yeah I do, haha
[00:12.12] I look at me now, I'm thinkin', "Damn"
[00:14.17] How proud of me I am
[00:15.51] What I did is nothin' to sneeze at
[00:17.16] Even if your allergies are bad
[00:19.09] I'm up in a balcony in France
[00:20.63] I look around, I see the fans
[00:22.29] How they surround me in the stands
[00:23.85] Probably could drown in a sea of hands
[00:25.36] They're hollerin', "Shady" ("Shady")
[00:27.11] Yelling it out to me and that's what I mean when I say
[00:29.58] That one day someway, somehow, if I get the chance to get a crowd
[00:32.58] I'd flip it around and have a crowd give me the chants
[00:34.99] (I've done it all, man)
[00:36.31] But in actuality, I haven't, yet
[00:39.00] Where am I supposed to go from here? (Whoa-oh-oh) hey
[00:42.32] Really I have no idea (all)
[00:44.49] All I know is every time I think I hit my ceiling (yeah, oh)
[00:47.46] I go higher than I've ever f- been (my only question is)
[00:52.02] Where am I supposed to go from here? (Whoa-oh-oh) hey
[00:55.23] Really I have no idea (all I know is, all)
[00:57.45] All I know is every time I think I hit my ceiling (yeah, oh)
[01:00.50] I go higher than I've ever f- been
[01:03.91] Got no time for no haters in this b-
[01:05.84] Or toleration for this sh-
[01:07.20] But like medication, my dedication
[01:09.04] And the time it takes to do this sh-
[01:10.62] Reminds me of how an overcrowded hospital waiting room'll get
[01:13.98] What I mean is maybe I have more patience (patients) than I'm able to admit
[01:17.11] Yeah, but I'm still mentally stable as a three-legged table in this b-
[01:20.23] Fame was a switch, but I was grateful to trade this shit for the trailer with a hitch
[01:23.42] That it would make me a raving lunatic
[01:25.03] But I made it through my situation, I hit pay dirt
[01:28.01] Now I get paper like a stapler in this b-
[01:30.04] But just 'cause I made a little bit of change
[01:32.08] Don't mean I've changed a little bit
[01:33.20] Brain full of wit, dangerous, can't extinguish this English language when it's lit
[01:36.48] And I'm just berating you with it, it's Shady 'til I'm 82
[01:39.38] I'll spit this crazy, even Dre, he knows I'ma blow
[01:41.65] Better get the handkerchief again, haha
[01:43.84] Where am I supposed to go from here? (Whoa-oh-oh) hey
[01:47.09] Really I have no idea (all)
[01:49.44] All I know is every time I think I hit my ceiling (yeah, oh)
[01:52.81] I go higher than I've ever f- been (know I talk about this sh- a lot, my only question is)
[01:57.09] Where am I supposed to go from here? (Whoa-oh-oh) hey
[01:59.75] Really I have no idea (all I know is, all)
[02:02.42] All I know is every time I think I hit my ceiling (yeah, oh)
[02:05.52] I go higher than I've ever f- been
[02:08.34] Oh, now what am I gonna do?
[02:09.78] Can't nothing hold me, I'm on the loose
[02:11.44] Born a winner, damn, it's so hard to lose
[02:13.08] I can do it even when I'm tryin' to
[02:14.64] When my record flops, it still go through the roof
[02:16.44] This atmosphere's for a chosen few
[02:18.19] Who was on they grind makin' money moves
[02:19.79] And you ain't gon' get there if you watered-down
[02:21.36] You gotta take shots with a hundred proof (check it out)
[02:22.94] Been in survival mode
[02:24.81] Since a five-year-old, it was I alone
[02:26.43] Since my trike was stole, spiral notebook and microphone
[02:29.06] But lookin' back, how bad it was then
[02:30.45] If it hadn't been for the pad and the pen
[02:32.35] Addict mom and deadbeat dad
[02:33.41] I wouldn't have had the savage within
[02:35.06] Havin' to win every single battle I'm in
[02:37.20] All I ever wanted was to be an emcee
[02:38.69] Tediously I wrote obediently, believing in me
[02:40.76] EPMD must've had teachin' degrees
[02:42.68] Learned to defeat enemies with the ink, thinkin' of these rhymes
[02:44.77] Would be as Eazy as E
[02:45.72] And graffiti would be like remedial readin' to me (yeah)
[02:48.72] 'Til my last breath leaves my lungs
[02:50.17] I'ma beat my drum (yeah) for the streets I'm from (yeah)
[02:51.87] The East side slums (yeah), gotta remind 'em (yeah)
[02:53.45] I'll take a foe out (yeah), like fee-fi-fum
[02:54.96] You see my finger (what?), you see my thumb (what?)
[02:56.51] You see my fist, fuck a peace pipe, I'm (what?)
[02:58.26] Here for the smoke but it's not the weed I want (what?)
[02:59.88] With this beat I brung for the beef I've come (whoo)
[03:01.46] But you better bring it if you wanna reply from
[03:03.35] 'Cause for you to be lyrically inclined, it'd be a steep climb up
[03:06.53] That'll be an uphill battle
[03:07.94] But I'm up like your feet in a recliner
[03:09.70] And I think I'm about to go out on a limb like a tree climber
[03:12.78] Time to push my ceiling higher 'cause
[03:14.64] Where am I supposed to go from here? (Whoa-oh-oh) hey
[03:17.59] Really I have no idea (all)
[03:20.33] All I know is every time I think I hit my ceiling (yeah, oh)
[03:23.28] I go higher than I've ever f- been (for the last time, my only question is)
[03:27.81] Where am I supposed to go from here? (Whoa-oh-oh) hey
[03:30.66] Really I have no idea (all I know is, all)
[03:33.05] All I know is every time I think I hit my ceiling (yeah, oh)
[03:36.56] I go higher than I've ever f- been (damn)
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