| Dedicating this to
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| Young female, who I’m sure meant no harm
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| Asked me what I did
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| Told her I was a musician
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| Said «What kind of music do you make?»
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| I said «I make hip-hop»
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| She said «Oh, you mean you’re a rapper?»
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| Next interview I’m asked how long I’ve been in the game
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| Afterwards gon' have to walk with a cane
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| I’m not on that plane
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| People ask why I ain’t walking this way
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| Nowadays I just be walking away
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| I am not tryna waste
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| An instant tryna explain
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| How I’m different from other rappers, far as they traits
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| Like there could ever be a logical answer other than the music we make
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| When I’m dead and gone my music will remain
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| We are not in a race
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| I don’t hold a conventional view
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| I’m not concerned with being the best, or being better than you
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| I’m concerned with being better than me
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| At the highest levels, that’s the only better worth even trying to be
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| This is the protest that the vultures evoked
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| As a spokesman for the culture that’s considered a joke
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| Just a show biz, son, to show that I’m loathed
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| Take a gander at the winners how they glamour and the glitter that’s shown
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| A musician
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| But y’all don’t listen
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| Different
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| This is
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| People ask how come I read out a book
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| Like I’m the herb to be concerned with how uncommon it look
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| I don’t need to take the time out to speak
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| I already know nobody cares if thats the verse I wrote to the beat
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| And how I do too many features?
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| Please don’t start
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| How can artist make too much art?
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| I know that y’all do not mean harm
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| But it’s hard
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| I never get a chance to walk the line, cause all of y’all walk hard
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| Cause of the course, my shit is not on par
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| Forefront of an artform that is not gone far
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| I guess that that’s the price of being avant-garde
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| Sixteen bars, three verses long
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| Is the output of a Beatles album and one song
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| No disrespect to Bob Dylan
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| But show respect for Madvillain
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| Top level of dope art
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| Black Thought, Ray Charles, Miles and Mozart
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| Might make the airwaves but music selection on British Airways don’t take no
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| part
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| Producers get it confused
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| Like, do I have a verse I already wrote, but I ain’t already use?
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| I feel defeated
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| Like MJ could have spit the «Thriller» verses over «Beat It»
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| It goes beyond the realm of inconvenience
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| Into the realm of hidden genius
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| Musicians be amongst the greatest in the world
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| But caught up in the game that’s being degraded by the world
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| Even though a sim is hated by the world
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| Don’t ask me by I’m jaded by the world
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| Disagreeing with all the human beings
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| Convinced with this only being for boys and girls
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| This is eternal |