| Steady tryna take the high road
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| But they make it so hard
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| They love to tell you «dream big»
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| 'Till you take it too far
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| They can tell you what you’re doin' wrong
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| But could never do it like you
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| If they can’t put a label on ya
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| Ain’t no tellin' what you might do
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| Made a lotta changes, I had to do it
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| Difference between me and them is I can see the wall before I crash into it
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| I saw the country this year, twice, some people missin'
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| I gave some people a hint
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| I guess we’ll see who listen
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| Crazy when your dream is right in front of you
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| I been so caught up in day-to-day, to me it’s nothin' new
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| When did we get here, and why didn’t we celebrate it?
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| I think I learned that when we really make it I won’t have to say it I don’t
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| wanna have to say it
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| I think I’ve been trying to please everybody for way too long
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| Save the pleasantries
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| Shit is real as ever
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| I feel okay, but I feel the pressure
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| Fell into some old ways to get me felling better
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| It never lasts
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| People say «let it pass»
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| People talk, and people get dismissed like the underclass
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| I feed on that
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| If I cut a record, then I bleed on that
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| They want me underground
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| But I’d rather keep my feet on that
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| Used to really play the background
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| Lookin' up to cats
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| But couldn’t tell you where they’re at now
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| It’s crazy
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| I don’t know if they got lazy or they couldn’t catch a break
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| Either way I’m yellin' «pay me» cause you never know
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| Tryna' stay ahead and shit
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| Must be doin' something right
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| Finally seeing benefits
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| I think I could make some people relevant
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| But they’re too busy tryna' make their own room
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| They don’t see the elephant
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| That’s why I’m out here like the delegate
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| Tryna' turn my boys into the ones I get the cheddar with
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| That’s why I’m out here like the delegate Tryna' turn my boys into the ones I
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| get the cheddar with
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| I think I’ve been trying to please everybody for way too long
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| Save the pleasantries
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| Sometimes I need a tough love
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| It’s sincere
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| I don’t need a lesson now
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| Tell me what I wanna hear
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| I been around the block
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| They don’t get a cut
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| I work around the clock
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| Hear me on sway for anything come off top
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| Money in
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| Won’t shake me down
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| I ain’t make money then
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| It won’t make me now
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| Soon as peers can’t relate
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| Then they break me down
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| I swear they hate me only cause they ain’t me now
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| My fuse got shorter, skin got thinner
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| I got fuel for the fire
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| Baby, 'bout to be a hot winter
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| Big bears tryna' eat and I’m not dinner
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| I got a lot on my plate
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| And you boys chop liver
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| I’m a hot spitter, ask about me at the hospital
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| I’m surgical with the flow, boy, I’m Doc Rivers
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| Ain’t no middle ground these days
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| You either wit' us or you’re not wit' us |