No Joke

This that Jay Johnson song play it in concert

Sick The Professor on em' I'm quick ta Main Source him

The Pro's Large been known all over Boston

A bachelor with a master's in math and now a doctorate

Straight conquered every challenge made stronger

Many talents made paperback how I became an author

King, ain't tryna big time y'all, that's not called for

No entourage at all, y'all can save that for Mark Wahlberg

A blue-collar fighter from Lowell, traveler, rockstar

Hard as them Beskar Bars I'll cross genres

Still these Killmongers wanna act all Wakanda

I'll leave em with they ancestors like T'Challah

Answering investor calls from the corner office

Counting up C-notes while they float me they best offers

Sitting in C-suites while they talk sweet with confidence

Hoping they keep Pro to keep keynoting these conferences

This is not for tears what you hear is the reversal of

Been underground for years, little commercial love

But kept turning up on charts, kept my journal up

Serving em that lunch pail grind heat for your thermos cup

Bunches of rhymes prepared for beats they serving up

Murder any cipher when they see me heads circle up

For that internal stuff both adults and kids feel

Inviting to your soul more excited than the Higgs Field

A big deal a couple nights a week

They seek me out for their college, rock the mic and speak

Then catch a flight, then I'm right back to write and sleep

Then I'm back on my campus for my class I teach

A deep, 401k over 400k

Doubled down on the townhouse we done okay - OK

This how you floss once you fully matured

Facts, got bonds uncashed that's fully matured - stacks

Been so awesome to write my life's songs in

A different chapter each track gets more conscious

More self-aware, more care put in responses

With more thought put in to courting sponsors

Do it for more than the love, supporting causes

Because all too aware of how much this music's costing

A small fortune I spend, made and lost it

And made it back again cause the pen game's so monstrous

And maintained this career and stayed accomplished

With flows that persevere till the day they close your coffin

I stay boosted though post-COVID I'm cautious

Immune from all these rumors, the foolish gossip and nonsense