[Verse 1: Saba]
Apologies in advance, Mobbing Deep with the clan
Too ninety to [?], riotmen in my cla**
Beatboxin', basqiat dreadlockin'
The nerdy kid, he stuffed in lockers
Tell em' be cool like a lozenge
n***as see you with the [?]
They ready to pull your card, like uno out
I could tell you, but this sh** you know 'bout
I'm talking 17 I thought I was the, told the, coldest
[?] get my a** a phone and office
Left my job and gave they a** a one week notice
Back at home I feel I'm Macaulay Culkin
Knew this sh** was good like I am Kobe, postin'
Never left the luck, I got a four leaf clover
Paranoid as when them boys will pull me over
Stackin' up my paper like a loose leaf owner
See me on Cobra, I felt like the culprit
None of they sh** come down, treat me like a toilet
Tomahawk a hook and I 360 with the verses
Soldier like the service, bus like I got service
All they lines down, I'm around and they nervous
Reachin' on the ground like the carpet, persian
I come from a town where the topic: murder
I feel like the crown on my conscious, curvin' it
News like I'm Burgundy, hurtin' me so
Worth to be perfectly hurt me and mo'
[?], if I ain't never grow
I didn't fold when a label approach
Lay down a lay, it's a-rest like [?]
Stay in your lane like you payin' a toll
Hate cause they ain't gonna pay what they owe
Snakes in the gra**, put the apes in the zoo
Gorilla readin' corinthian callin' you realest like Christopher callin them Indian
This is not that
Presidential I should get a top-hat off experience
Quiet like librarian, how they all silent around
I'm like that guy in the town
Die for the crown
I keep my ear to the street
I keep my eye to the clouds
[Hook: Sylvan LaCue]
All I wanna do is be the best me
All I wanna do is be the best me
All I wanna do is be the best me
All I wanna do is be the best me, best me possibly
[Verse 2: Sylvan LaCue]
Upset drunk on a cold night
Should stop now but I won't lie
n***a I remember those days when I used to have no lights (no lights)
That was back when... That was back when...
Back when it was nothin' but a dream
Food drive service, black churches kept my mother cookin' daily dinner, breakfast, even lunches for the team
Pulled me to the side, told me she was savin' up a bucket full of green
Hush plans boy, nothin's for the scene
Get up off your a** and follow your pa**ion
Motivated from moments then it's back to the mattress
Work patches back to back, me god be tragic
All these a**es, rack up thoughts, wreak havoc
You, you follow the rules
Develop misunderstandin' then swallow your j**els
Dependin' on model theres never model your uniqueness, deep kiss the way you bottle your cool
I remember the school high
Ridiculous new ideas to my peers, fear you must be a musha
Martin look wrist boy better woosa!
My n***as reflectin' images [?]
Lord, I've been at task I ask my last request on earth is not to let my selfish way shine through
Don't believe in karma, only God but I know what goes round comes right back round for you
Can I get a church?
1995 and 97 was the worst
Started writin' to escape but I was livin' on a verse
Only lookin' forward to the fifteen and the first
Told my n***as I don't want to hit a forty with a forty in front of bodegas incarcerated or in a herse
Systematically envisioned to imprison me in dirt
By the age of 27 I'm just tryna dead a curse
15 I had a vivid conversation with myself
And said self you can either k** you or k** a verse
Now my verses have verses in burials
Scriptures and carols through me when I'm blessed
And I am my best me
[Hook: Sylvan LaCue]
All I wanna do is be the best me
All I wanna do is be the best me
All I wanna do is be the best me
All I wanna do is be the best me, best me possibly
All I wanna do is be the best me
All I wanna do is be the best me
All I wanna do is be the best me
All I wanna do is be the best me, best me possibly