[INTRO]
Down by the river by the boats
Where everybody goes to be alone
Where you won't see any rising sun ...
And all the hennessy and weed can't hide
The pain i feel inside, you know
It's like i'm living just to die
Oh, oh
I don't know why
X4
[VERSE 1]
What do you really want from me?
Honest arrogance or hypocritical humility
A n***a rhyme like the giants of the golden age
Amalgam of the chosen greats that paved the way
When I grace the stage, spit like how you pictured it
In my nirvana zone this my nahra flow like the river styx
Young n***a grew up fatherless
Just a product of when culture clash
Anger filled my heart with phosphorus
Set to erupt like vulcan's wrath
Sonorous hip hop influenced
Barbarous constituent
Hopped in the game bout to ma**acre
Here comes a brand new challenger
n***as pretend like they street fighters
Lyin' in these weak cyphers
A n***a ryu y'all barely can
Move a crowd or use a pen
While i'm known to flow without one
n***as already know the outcome
Sewed their jaws shut in my battling days
Turn 'em into sawdust when i'm outta the cage
[HOOK]
It's like I'm living just to die
And all the hennessy and weed can't hide
The pain i feel inside, you know
It's like i'm living just to die
If you battle L (El) you picked the wrong head
I smash mics like cornbread, you can't k** me I was born dead
The beat is sicker than the blood in your stool
The way it repeats can trick you like a stuttering fool
I woke up early on my born day; I'm 20, it's a blessing
The essence of adolescence leaves my body, now I'm fresh and
Some boys see me gun nozzle and take a we fi joke
And if you don't know, now you know ...
n***a
Oh, oh
I don't know why
X4
[VERSE 2]
Watch their heart drop their liver split
Flux nahra that river styx
British kids say i'm wicked sick
They'd never guess i'm a citizen
Pops came straight from the motherland
Moms from the place left of japan
Mixed kid raised metropolitan
A deep disdain for charlatans
Recently resided in Oakland
That's where I been remolded
Spent all my days just smokin
That potent, keeps me focused
For a while just went thru the motions
n***as round me always boasted
Bout the d** and clips unloaded
My innocence was eroded
Slept in the basement with the rodents
Winters with no heaters were the coldest
House got no power got no voltage
Thats when I was at my lowest
Seen n***as die can't sugercoat it
Went to collage barely enrolled in
A bad example as the oldest
Ever since i'm a kid it was noticed
Got a gift with the words i'm a poet
[HOOK]
[VERSE 3]
Emulate the legends of the golden era
Gods of the game alpha omega
Run dmc, rakim and kane
De la soul to the wu tang clan
I was born in the 90s n***a
Related more to the 90s n***as
Pac was the first emcee I heard
Remember hangin' on to his every word
Ever since then I couldn't go back
Hip hop practically raised me
Once the beats on the world goes black
And nothin' in the world would phase me
Nas, hov, ll, big l and big
Shady, ice cube, the list persists
Always wear a mask like that n***a doom
Haunted by my past it can consume
When I rhyme it keeps the pain at bay
More than any d** or pill i'd take
Start writin' bars disappear for days
If I could I would never take a break
Put my life in every stanza and line
As I recite all these cancerous rhymes
If you don't know, now you know
Just to stay alive I gots to flow
[HOOK]
[BRIDGE]
Just to stay alive I gots to flow
X5
[OUTRO]
Life's a b**h and then you die
That's why we get high
Cause you never know when you're gonna go
Life's a b**h and then you die
That's why we puff lye ...