Feel that pressure build I play seconds like Adams, patterns snapping in fractions Black magic and captions, I'm mapping pain in the action Heart hammered in panic now, passion packed in the casket Of every pass me, I dragged 'em, let 'em decay with the statics, which pace? I was ten with a pen writing sins I ain't commit yet Mama praying I'm patient, chasing checks I don't get yet City sirens my metronome, echo bones in the projects Every tone got a ghost, I've been hosting the unrest Level time, redder the rather, I'm faster than chatter that scatter the data that flatter the faker I'm badder the latter with matter and anger, I carried the weight of a name that was never for favor I buried behavior that catered to savior, the fuck 'em, I made it Slow glide, spew with the venom, I cruise through the rhythm like Big Did Slew with the pivot, I give 'em the vision they lived in Truth in the pigment, my blues got the crimson in mission If you listen, it's prison and wisdom, I'm kissing conviction Every breath got a bill on it Every step got a will on it If I fall, put the real on it Blood ink got a seal on it Don't let me fade in the baseline shadows Hold my name when the cold wind travels If I break, let the whole world rattle I'm alive in the dark, don't let go Uh, fuck luck, I've been threading a needle through thunder and budget My stomach been empty but envy ain't never been nothing I covet the covenant, honored the hunger, I love it I'm shoving the doubt in the furnace and turning the substance Which triple bounce, click-clack cadence, I'm chasing the cadence I made in the basement, adjacent to greatness, I'm patient but rageous Adjacent I lace it with statements invasive, I'm breaking the matrix Erase all the face of the traitor they sold for the placement Story cut, brother got booked on a look, now the body they labeled a problem I caught him and laughed like I got me Three years in a box made a saint of a sinner who's sorry But systems are gods that devour the truth of our story Speed burning, I'm twisted with scripture, I blister the blister From winter I whisper and into a sprint, every syllable splinter I render the center of cynics diminished and thinner Remember the pressure, I bend it, I send it, I end it I lied to a lover said I'd be alright by December December came colder, I folded 'em, owning the tempo I ghosted my mentor then wonder why doors wouldn't enter The mirror was honest as fuck, I was dodging the center switch Now I'm center the sinner with splendors of splendor I tender the ember, remember the winner, I mentioned redemption Ain't rent it, it's paid with attention, intention, I mentioned intention And live it, no gimmicks, no sensors Half time, get out the kick drum breathing That's how my chest gonna be If they press on me, I press back 'til the press don't press on me Every breath got a bill on it Every step got a will on it If I fall, put the real on it Blood ink got a seal on it Don't let me fade in the baseline shadows Hold my name when the cold wind travels If I break, let the whole world rattle I'm alive in the dark, don't let go I'm still here, I'm still here Cut the lights, let the truth appear
