Placebo (feat. Royce da 5'9)

Got a verbal machine gun, you never seen one

Vocab throw jabs, you thought a bee stung

You thought yo shit was heat, huh?

The fuck you get that beat from? Go get a refund

You gotta reload, infinite clips like I got the cheat code

Spittin' a brick like I copped from Chico

You wasn't in the mix, you watched through peephole

Starin' out the window, witnessin' livin' at a quicker tempo

But ain't no reset, this not Nintendo

Our life was preset, dark is a defect, you got the remote

You take yo seat yet? You get to see death all over C-notes

I ain't no preacher, don't be callin' me woke

Just ain't been sleep, yet this ain't for v-necks

Go get yo peacoat, I see yo feet cold

Just take a deep breath and watch me heat check all of your heroes

They didn't heal you, that's just placebo

I'm just a nappy headed negro aka reject, my alter ego

Get all the respect but if you see bro off in the streets bet yo ass would relapse

If you ain't know that he raps like fuck the verses, you'll clutch yo purses

My stream of income through a streamin' service

If you don't listen they gon' deem me worthless

So I need every purchase

That's why I'm steady workin'

I'ma heady person, so I go through dry spells, but this shit feel like a levee burstin'

Open the floodgates, they knew I was special after that snub tape

Just thought I'd touch base, this is the update

COVID constantly, code red boundaries, how could we

While gossipin', culturally grow responsibly?

Cops are the ops to me, cokeheads cop from me

Them hotels got me in protest consciously

Rolex watch on me, feds clockin' me, we own less

Property, atrocity, mo' debt, invest stock in the oppressed

Controllin' yo' net-profitin'

Told y'all 'bout them Jim Crow laws, that's more/less prophecy

My bars be trap, me car seat's back

Against odds, my cards be stacked, my Wall Street black

I dreamt all would pay me in health, it's degradin' to do pilates

Generationial wealth, **** say we Illuminati

To be religiously Christian versus dissettlement

Perfect embezzlement, bitch, we get in, worship the devil, rich

Melanin vibration indebted to God, gracious

They scared of Sanaa Lathan, genetic annihilation, uh

This ain't what B.I.G. meant when he came and kicked in your door

New whip for **** that walk, look rich for **** that's poor

You bang for **** that's soft, new chain for **** that floss

You sing for ****, that's God, you win for ****, that's lost all

Them too models come out with the see-through panties

I bleed blue Brandy and Art Basel by the Herbo Brantley's

I'm entitled to whites, so I got Harvard on my app

The ops just be callin' me light, then my Glock falls into my lap

Them execs suspended your record that'll send you a extra exorcism

So keep your respect, we just reap the regrets of nepotism

I'll dollar bill you or check, but you got to be specific

I got to keep you in check, so you got to be complicit

From A to Z, only you can compare with the streets

But only we can keep playin' musical chairs with the seats

Yeah, and I'm black so I got a target on my back

(**** where you at?) Atlanta, Georgia where I started on the map

Was bargainin' for scraps, they lethargic, I'm bargin' in fa racks

The margin is startlin', this who you thought was harder with the raps

What's the argument? Really ain't no guardin' him, in fact

I step back, let it fly I'm James Harden with the strap

Might just travel wit it, to get a shot off in the clutch

We both paid to be the boss but it ain't cost you as much

And even bosses get touched, so keep your head on a swivel

And pray you end up at the top and not dead in the middle

Out of towners pull up with diamonds and they bezel and dentals

Think shit sweet till lil' **** pump lead in ya rental

Got 'em duckin' shots, the juggernaut to stuff you in a fuckin' box

I just chucked the mud on top, you dug the plot

I tuck the Glock from which the slugs was popped that struck the ops

Who thought this shit was butterscotch, I'm finna crank this up a notch