[Intro]
Knowledge, where the f** have you been?
b**h I do the work of two men
No, it never ends
I just play the hand I was dealt
sh**, we had to get it by ourselves
n***a, don't nobody help
Everybody watching from the side
They don't wanna see a youngun rise, they rather see a n***a die
f** it, let the hatred multiply
I said I've been ready from the jump
Now, can I tell you what I want?
[Verse 1]
Gimme some sense but a lot of it
'Til I'm mentally out of it
Folding under the pressure but let me fade away
Attributing all my abilities
I'm quick to allocate
Don't agitate my spirit
I'm temperamental and terrifying
Verify my legacy
Lyrically a legend
I'm a living legend, left for dead, before I had to honor them
I call it like I see it, redirect if I don't like it
Resurrect the realer feeling rape and pillage
Like a viking, god damn!
I don't make excuses I just go and get it
I fortify the figure four, I put them in submission
Now place myself in a position so we can achieve
Little have an guava juice and now look [?]
It's magnifique, the masterpiece that we present to see
A surgeon seizure runs the peace of mind that you contain
I want the happiness that all these mother f**ers preach
I do relate, I hesitate to meditate with higher entities
I'm moderately incoherent
I sit in the crossfire spaced out
Boy, I think I lost my mind, I must've tried to buy the corridor
I ran around the corner
I had a color-coordinated hallucination
I'm seeing double then I stumble to another step
Give me a minute I ain't even close to finish yet
We dumb it down to be received by the incompetent
Lawd, eh
[Pre-Hook]
Let me take ya back to '09
Ain't nobody really give a f**
Back and forth the work my stomach hurt cause I ain't ate in about a week
My n***a Imma need a motherf**ing plate
Hop up in the women lets get higher, right!
Take a trip and then prepare to see the other side
Screaming motherf**in more until the day I die
[Chorus]
b**h I'm feeling Makaveli back in '95 !
b**h I'm feeling Makaveli back in '95 !
Saw my name up on the dotted line
They put me on the row
b**h I'm feeling Makaveli back in '95 !
Saw my name up on the dotted line
They put me on the row
b**h I'm feeling Makaveli back in '95 !
Saw my name up on the dotted line
They put me on the row
b**h I'm feeling Makaveli back in '95 !
Saw my name up on the dotted line
They put me on the row
[Verse 2]
They sentenced me to 25, threw me in a cell
And mentally I feel like i'm stuck in a living hell
I can't excel or elevate
Got a n***a stagnant
And stipulate the steady purpose
Execute my person
I ask acute officially
Then I make a decision
Expressing these feelings
My feelings I keep them far away
And homie I'm just trying to live, don't want to die today
So I get lost inside the beast it's like the hide away
But I just want to find soul n***a how you do?
It's all praise on the most high, Hallelujah !
Be it like who's side?
Do it by the few time, Hoo Cha!
All these other motherf**ers futile
Useless baby
Watch me step it up a level
Leave them all in disbelief
I lead, I never break a leg
Like I asked someone but then I gave up
Can't quit, came back like a junkie for another fix
I feel like a poking
Won't somebody please believe me?
How come every time I lead is when they tell me that need me
Greedy [?]
Peak like ___ please won't you appease it for the moment n***a
We could give a f** about your pain
What the hell is hurt
Don't you understand that your worth is not connected to your last hit?
Now make another one, quick! I need it fast n***a
But don't do all the fast rap that back n***a
And don't forget to say n***a about a million times
Keep your vocabulary as large as a grain of salt
Cause that's the only thing these stupid motherf**ers want
Don't show you're sk**
I need a melody, a catch, a hook
You get me that and we can get a generation hooked
Tell them everything to do except for read a book
Then fabricate it for the life you know you never lived
Well if the training influenced, well I say ignorance
The future's f**ing hopeless n***a
Don't nobody give a sh**!
Lawd!
Huh!
[Pre-Hook]
Let me take it back to '09
Ain't nobody really give a f**
Back and forth the work my stomach hurt cause I ain't ate in about a week
n***a Imma need a motherf**ing plate
Hop up in the women lets get higher, right!
Take a trip and then prepare to see the other side
Screaming motherf**in more until the day I die
[Chorus]
b**h I'm feeling Makaveli back in '95 !
b**h I'm feeling Makaveli back in '95 !
Saw my name up on the dotted line
They put me on the row
b**h I'm feeling Makaveli back in '95 !
Saw my name up on the dotted line
They put me on the row
b**h I'm feeling Makaveli back in '95 !
Saw my name up on the dotted line
They put me on the row
b**h I'm feeling Makaveli back in '95 !
Saw my name up on the dotted line
They put me on the row
Ho! Lawd!
[Outro]
Knowledge, where the f** have you been?
b**h I do the work of two men
No, it never ends
I just play the hand I was dealt
sh**, we had to get it by ourselves
n***a, don't nobody help
Everybody watching from the side
They don't wanna see a youngun rise, they rather see a n***a die
f** it, let the hatred multiply
I said I've been ready from the jump
Lawd! Eh!
Knowledge!
n***a!
Lawd!