[00:07.800]The mayor's a cop, the blues quadrupled up[00:11.343]The block is hot, shit, this how they chose to use the guap[00:14.854]With this amount of human laws[00:16.860]Could've been for schools or parks[00:18.866]Coats in the winter and the summer something to cool 'em off[00:22.128]Food and warmth 'cause once the leaves on the trees start falling off[00:26.316]People want me heat to keep their ears from falling off[00:29.836]Temperature dropped then back up to the top[00:33.132]From the deepest BK block back up to the Bronx[00:36.898]What you wanna hurry back for? Ain't journey that far[00:40.658]Nah, not getting off 'til the very last stop[00:42.162][00:44.947]And they appear as lost, the air is mad hot[00:47.971]I be mixing, quickly staring off, bearing mad 'grabb[00:51.732]Shit be busy with them scary thoughts, fear to ask God[00:55.490]I be thinking who gon' take the ball, don't care for mascots[00:59.253]Me and WIK' we 'bout to take it all, the years padlock[01:02.767]Just listen, this shit could break the fall, be your last try on this mission[01:07.535]Shit be taking long and be the bad guys, baby villain[01:11.307]Finna break the walls and free the chastised, my nigga[01:14.812]We really in this, deeper than rap lines, the spliff it make my brain dissolve and even pass time[01:19.836][01:22.173]Even so Jesus know I needed that line[01:25.190]Weeded out my ego but no, he can't lie[01:28.802]Only half the time it's only right, I need to have pride[01:32.602]While I laugh, cry trying to balance out both sides[01:36.380]If I capsized or if I go drought dry[01:40.228]Walk out the desert a martyr, the water baptized[01:43.490]From where I'm at, I must've been a'ight in my last life[01:48.007]That's right when I'm thrown back in the cast iron[01:51.269]City that's mine, they ask "Why? Wiki that's lies"[01:54.784]Ask MIKE, his songs be rallying up all sides[01:57.112][01:58.617]Nigga, trust, yuh, we having a bunch, the talk right[02:02.383]From the jump when you battle with trust, the fall high[02:06.158]But it's up, I done swam through the mud and tall times[02:09.663]Remember first lil' batch of that buzz, I called mom[02:13.736]It's your son, giving back for that love in a dark time[02:17.249]Too above it, too attached to that ruckus and hard grind[02:21.014]Gettin' numb, too much gas in my muzzle to guard pride[02:24.777]All them months through that map like I'm puzzled, bizarre rhyme[02:28.247]I stay in touch trying to tackle these struggles and scarred mind[02:32.081]All this bludgeon in my memory muscles and archive[02:35.907]It be tough, we be banking on luck for long life[02:39.667]When they ask me why I give it so much, we on ice[02:42.176][02:44.183]Must've thought it was dust, I lost sight[02:46.953]Saw a light on the darkest of nights, I caught fire[02:51.735]And know we calling your bluff, no off nights[02:54.506]Jaw tight, on the move for my blood, we hardwired[02:58.512]And son, you could do it for hype, it's alright[03:01.774]All while we gon' do it for love, not titles[03:06.039]It's true, that's how I grew from them cuts and shark bites[03:09.303]War crimes when we loot for the bucks, the guap vital[03:13.144]Lot of people on my side need a piece of the pie[03:16.673]Slice lead to suffices that's why I'm not idle[03:19.937]That's why I be deep in the crisis, just tryna keep the lies[03:24.203]Stop deceiving when you know that's not like you