Top One Percent (feat. mrmalachi2012)

[Intro] [Instrumental] [Verse 1] Top floor, shell game, veil on the ledger Cash got a face, but the face never says much Boardroom orbit, hush money, featherweight pressure Hand on the pulse and the pulse gets readjusted Private little circles, velvet ropes, old names Patina on the power, same script, new frame Minds get mapped like a maze in a museum Prime-time fog, same lie in a new hue, man They don’t need a crown when the code does the ruling Don’t need a gun when the schools do the schooling Don’t need a chain when the rent keeps climbing Don’t need a voice when the fear keeps timing Paper trail, paper wall, paper-thin freedom Puppet-string economics, everybody feed them If you look too close, they recast the ending So I spit in code, keep the syntax bending [Chopped Invocation] Top one—top one—top one percent Top one—top one—top one percent [Chorus] Top one percent, top one percent They pull from the top one percent Top one percent, top one percent Whole world moves when the top one percent [Verse 2] Soft-foot takeover, board games, back channels Shell in the shell in the shell with the backhand Ain’t just gold, it’s the loan and the zoning Land in the name of the ones who own it Clinic, court, feed, screen, repeat Need gets shaped by the price on the street Buy the myth, then they sell you the cure Bottle the panic, then call it secure Every little crisis got a private little sponsor Smoke in the policy, ghost in the roster See the same names in the wings and the comments Same old kings in the clean-cut Congress Invisible net, but it tightens in layers Not one snake, it’s a hydra with payers Each tentacle sleek in a tailored disguise Touch one node and the whole thing lies [Alchemy Rite] Cut the lights, let the blueprint show Maps in the dark where the cold winds go Not just a man with a grin and a tie It’s a whole machine with a thousand eyes [Chorus] Top one percent, top one percent They pull from the top one percent Top one percent, top one percent Whole world moves when the top one percent [Outro] So I lace each line like a wire in braid Keep the cadence sharp when the stories get staged If the mask slips once, then the spell gets spent Then the noise gets loud for the top one percent [Final Chopped Chant] Top one—percent Top one—percent Whole world moves—when the top one percent