When you've been doing this

As long as Ivan and I have

You see a lot of eras

You see a lot of people come and go

But we've remained (Ok, Jules)

And a lot of people wonder why

We didn't care when no one was listening

We didn't care when the world was listening

We do this 'cause we know it's what we're meant to do

Preach!

They want me down in the depths

They love me most when I'm stressed

Don't want me stackin' no checks

They love to hear I'm depressed

Guess that a smile's a flex

Fuck it, I'm good as it gets

You can take that to the next

Sorry that I never rest

It's been a hit after hit after hit

Like, how could you not be impressed?

I don't live in the machine

I pay the price for the dream

They wanna know what I'm stackin'

But I got a habit of takin' my losses like Neo so I can be free

Oh, you think you got a hit? Think that you're bigger than this?

Give it a decade on that kinda runway

I'm positive most couldn't maintain the chokehold I have on this shit

I heard they wanted me winnin' until I was winnin' way bigger than them (Damn)

I heard the thing about winners is someone else winnin' don't throw off their pen (True)

I know the industry tend to be knives in the back and a paranoid lens (Mmm)

Careful how you choose your enemies, even more careful when choosin' your friends

Choosin' the red, can't live in the blue

Won't choke on a lie, I swallow the truth

I know there's answers outside of the Matrix

I wrote em' all down and I'm livin' as proof

I know they saw me as far as the roof

I blew through the scaffolding, sonic the boom

I brought some drip for the trip on a ship with a course that I charted for Moon 52

Yeah, they tried to get me to color in lines

Livin' a life that I knew wasn't mine

So many livin' ain't really alive

The wake-up been somethin' I'm tryna provide

Life is in what you create

Don't leave it up all up to fate

You'll be surprised when you wake

Just how much you're able to shape

They want me down in the depths

They love me most when I'm stressed

Don't want me stackin' no checks

They love to hear I'm depressed

Guess that a smile's a flex

Fuck it, I'm good as it gets

You can take that to the next

Sorry that I never rest

It's been a hit after hit after hit

Like, how could you not be impressed?

I don't live in the machine

I pay the price for the dream

They wanna know what I'm stackin'

But I got a habit of takin' my losses like Neo so I can be free

Oh, you think you got a hit? Think that you're bigger than this?

Give it a decade on that kinda runway

I'm positive most couldn't maintain the chokehold I have on this shit

Instead of a handout

Put 'em together and count up your blessin's

Flexin' like they on the map

Nobody searchin' you up, ain't no point to address it

Laughed at her face, she said that I'm destined

Left you on read 'cause I'm not as invested

Come to the studio, it's me and the henchmen

Got 'em all hooked like I'm flippin' a question

Markin' my past, foot on the gas only time that I question myself, this

When did I ask? If it ain't family or God I'm just here for the cash

Keepin' 'em guessin', I got on the mask

Things gon' get messy if I step on the grass

Always on me bae, you don't gotta ask

Coming in first, like how long can this last? Ha

Hit after hit after hit after hit

Put up the logo, they know what it is

Settin' the bar like a gymnast but this time I'm making a flip

Ice on my neck 'cause they want me to slip

Say it's all love but they want me to quit

Pray for the rain 'cause they hate on the drip

I know what it is, I know what it is, yeah

They want me down in the depths

They love me most when I'm stressed

Don't want me stackin' no checks

They love to hear I'm depressed

Guess that a smile's a flex

Fuck it, I'm good as it gets

You can take that to the next

Sorry that I never rest

It's been a hit after hit after hit

Like, how could you not be impressed?

I don't live in the machine

I pay the price for the dream

They wanna know what I'm stackin'

But I got a habit of takin' my losses like Neo so I can be free

Oh, you think you got a hit? Think that you're bigger than this?

Give it a decade on that kinda runway

I'm positive most couldn't maintain the chokehold I have on this shit