Dostoyevsky (feat. Rapsody)

Yeah, the universe let the planets align

Spent 10 K in the card, didn't decline

Bartender, one Casamigos and lime

I'm celebratin' gracefully, gettin' better with time

I ain't even halfway through this incredible ride

But like, I'm kinda doin' an incredible job

When I was 18, living beyond my means

I was afraid of my dreams, lookin' at the finer things

Wishin' I could flip to a microchip from a paper clip

Upgrade to a spaceship from a basic whip

Cash rules everything, I just wanted a taste of it

Fast food hurrying, saving time, not wasting it

Self-saboteur, speaking it to my paramour

Torch rappers like I'm ignitin' the aerosol

Maintaining the wherewithal that'll embarass y'all

Game changer, the way I shredded your cabbage off

Explaining is changing apples to applesauce

When we were young, innocence was ours, but that was lost

Where I reside is the dark side of the glory

The fury I manipulate is the arc of the story

Written without a ghostwriter to author it for me

This is crime and punishment, I'm the judge and the jury

Listen, Dostoyevsky

I swam with crocs, fished with sharks

But never popped charts, but I know I'm popular

I was built to run the game, I came up playing guard

With young **** between five-five and six foot four

I banged over both, tryna bank over some more

And ball out in something gorgeous that'll keep me in court

Where they'll judge like y'all does, y'all don't know me enough

Y'all still owe us for what all y'all did to the Cold Crush

To my Donuts, I'm shootin' J Dillas and what

I wanna cop when I get loot and recoup

I had to go through hella doors, so, in short

That's why I only won two

But I ain't got Jay number, I CC 'em the proof

'Cause everything I pictured in my head is always come true

They say you need vision to see eye to eye with the Jews

Spent 25 hundred on sheep skin, let it seep in

I ain't turn Starboy in a weekend

It took more like 7 years, make a sane man drink Everclear

It ain't ever clear, yeah, we ain't ever guaranteed the year

Fruits of your labor, huh, you work hard to get it

Jamla stitched on the motherfucking Roc fitted

Before the big life, I had to start with the scrimmage

Know that it'd come sooner or later, I'm Trae Young, ****

Huh, I'm Trae Young, ****

Uh, I said, Dostoyevsky meets Joe Pesci

Tired of staring at a glass half empty

Turning me from Dr. Sebi to cockin' semi

It got me clutchin' my machete from the Serengeti already

Wild Style and Fab 5 Freddy, I'm a stranger in Moscow

Don't ask how deadly is the ummah

Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah

To the Tripoli shores from the halls of Montezuma

Stop intruder, I'm built on facts, I'm not your rumor

A malignant tumor, slid through in a suede Puma

The steady heavy legendary, all praise is overdue

Same cloth as the chosen few, rap Noble Drew

I guarantee you know more music by the suckers

It's not a victimless crime if anybody suffers

In a system that was designed for them to try to cuff us

Well, what's the use for them tryin'

When can't nobody touch us

Unless it's fabricated, probably drug related

But love or hate it, I will not be subjugated

When they scream at you, the greatest that did it was underrated

As if every other player who spit it was unrelated

If every man's a temple, the circumstance is simple

So to be transcendental, I do enhance the mental

This is elder statesmen conversation

Take a look into them books from down in the basement, yeah