| False prophets on these screens everywhere we go
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| But what did you expect when dumb people got smartphones
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| More memes cool make it all a big joke
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| Crown your fake kings and let them sit up on your fake thrones
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| You’re young now but just wait until you grow old
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| When life gets real you’ll remember all these words I wrote
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| I went roaming walked multiple ways for 40 nights, 40 sleeps, yes multiple days
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| (I tried)
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| In the desert no food water searching for the answers but you listen to these
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| people who got nothing to say (You wouldn’t listen)
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| You wouldn’t know real if it slapped you right in the face
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| Ain’t for the culture I can tell by the shit you embrace (I see it)
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| I’m in Gotham but my minds in a different place
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| So fuck your cosigns, money, and your radio play
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| I be shaking when I write my music
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| I’ve been anti-violent but don’t push me 'cause I just might do it (Don't push
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| me)
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| They won’t give you no credit 'cause they know you’ll use it
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| And that’s what happens when the master starts fearing the student (They learn)
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| In this city you’re a number they don’t see you as human (They don’t see)
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| Just a puppet they replace for their games and amusement
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| In a city full of angels with the biggest influence
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| I see demons with a platform who just fucking abuse it
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| In Gotham everybody knows everybody (Everybody)
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| If you ain’t got a blue check, you ain’t anybody (Fuck)
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| Redo, repeat, sleep, double tap, see copy
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| Lost souls unaware they’re turning into dead zombies (Zombies)
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| Everywhere you look is plastic, all fabricated
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| Everything you’ve seen on TV was exaggerated (It's so fake)
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| Don’t nobody see you till you get a million followers
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| And when you do they treat you like you’re someone and you’re validated
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| What do you do? |
| How much money you make?
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| Who do you know? |
| What do you drive? |
| Where do you stay? |
| (Where do you stay?)
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| And while you’re answering those questions
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| They’ll be calculating how much of it they can see themselves trying to come in
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| and take
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| If you’re fragile don’t you even try come to this place (Don't come here)
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| They gon' build you just to break you then rebuild you to break
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| Let you reach your own limit then heroically save and that’s exactly how Gotham
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| turns you into a slave
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| In Gotham
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| Everyone goes and they lose their souls
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| 'Cause they can’t control in Gotham
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| Everyone lies, it’s an eye for an eye
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| You will lose your minds in Gotham
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| Everyone goes and they lose their souls
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| 'Cause they can’t control in Gotham
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| Livin' in Gotham, livin' in Gotham
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| Livin' in Gotham, livin' in Gotham
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| Nobody’s from here but everybody comes here
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| Wanting to be famous till they realize the price of fame
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| Brings close everything that they once feared
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| Consumed by the algorithm, it becomes clear
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| Life’s a simulation all controlled by a puppeteer
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| Blind people leading blind people driving cars
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| To a destination that is unclear while they can’t steer
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| One year, two years, three years, four
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| Drugs, alcohol, addiction, morgue
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| Fake friends, women gold-digging as a sport
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| Who convince you, you should live a whole life you can’t afford
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| Nobody sees you, you’re continuously ignored
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| Everybody wants fame they don’t care what it’s for
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| They don’t wanna build theirs, they’re just try’na take yours
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| This is dog eat dog in this messed up world
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| You think you need this place but you don’t
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| Happiness is not a physical place you call home
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| Did you ever wonder why you feel like you feel
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| When you take that time away from your phone
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| Fake shit goes viral we know this won’t
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| They’ll say they care but will never show
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| Gotham isn’t just a place it’s a mind state
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| Watered by the thoughts that manifest what you grow
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| In Gotham
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| Everyone goes and they lose their souls
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| 'Cause they can’t control in Gotham
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| Everyone lies, it’s an eye for an eye
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| You will lose your minds in Gotham
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| Everyone goes and they lose their souls
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| 'Cause they can’t control in Gotham
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| Livin' in Gotham, livin' in Gotham
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| Livin' in Gotham, livin' in Gotham
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| Don’t tell them how you feel 'cause I promise they won’t call back
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| Everybody’s in it for money so it’s all bad
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| Killing off my demons I’m rapping this in all black
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| I ain’t gotta, I ain’t gotta, I ain’t gotta, I ain’t gotta—
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| Prove nothing to Gotham
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| They ain’t done nothing for me
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| For me |