IVN - The Beginning lyrics

[Hook] Way too young to be reminiscing Yesterday was just the beginning They used to ask me "Why you always on that Drake sh**? You a poet bro, but homie can you really spit?" Now they look at me when I walk through Put my name on the map, the city coming too So mark my words when I tell you This is just the beginning [Verse 1] Set expectations, surpa**ed them and made new ones New 1's, cause I've been running this game for too long That my soul's worn out Now how do I get a new one Without becoming someone they knew, huh? It's too much Only a few would see the nuance Creating chaos with my lyrical napalms Spitting a seance to all of the rappers you heaping praise on Just to tell them that they never reached the echelon I'm on Oh man I hope my head stays screwed on Before a Holly Holm comes along and shows me where I came from Pride really does come before a fall Really thought I'd have it all together way before the fall But oh well On the move like a dead-beat dad hopping motels Tryna escape surroundings he knows oh so well While shame and pain be grabbing at his coat-tails Lost in this labyrinth I made cause these patterns changed Amazed at how negativity plagues the mainframe It doesn't make sense anymore Cause trying to fit in doesn't permit any space to grow It's better to know, than be in limbo Thoughts dancing around like a bimbo at a divorce hearing Vivid as ever, hardly clever, not far from Kleber Generally I'd step away from the center But I'm tired of special mentions Talking to the ma**es like I reside in the Vatican Man it gets so hard cause it's like I be talking to mannequins Getting manipulated by stipulations in media, it's tedious But somebody gotta do it And I know that it ain't you Ain't gonna sit on my a** praying for breakthroughs Life don't work on hand-outs so I'm finna pay dues This is long overdue [Hook] Way too young to be reminiscing Yesterday was just the beginning They used to ask me "Why you always on that Drake sh**? You a poet bro, but homie can you really spit?" Now they look at me when I walk through Put my name on the map, the city coming too So mark my words when I tell you This is just the beginning [Verse 2] Seems that all you need to make it is some auto-tune sh** ad-libs, high-hats and some 808's But I was sent out from the pearly gates To penetrate The minds of generations past, present, yet to be made Does that sh** pay? Paved the way for constant honeycomb echos, Amazing Grace Tried to put my sh** to bed, you never gave the time of day Now Vicky's secretly sending me catalogs in négligées Guess it all works out in any case Knew I needed a break when all I thought of Was getting head from groupies we'd let on the tour bus And I was hanging with hittas Who would catch a body over pennies and harlots Gutters overflowing with the tears of single mothers Eye in the sky, Horus Because you couldn't follow decorum Gripping the Taurus Bloodline of Ordóñez, cut the bull You ain't really down to live like that Busting 40's for 20 to life, you read the contract? Nights behind the pen, my penmanship is immaculate Writing these letters to free my brothers from sentences Never asked I dun went and put it upon myself To be deeper than Pandas guess I'll never be famous People gon' attack saying "you be on that trap sh**" But I'm the type to flip the script And spit on sh** that Mozart writ Don't play with these words, that's food for thought The baddest since red leather jackets and moonwalks They just mad that a black, African rapper can be as smart as this And still go as hard as this Diction marvelous it's obvious that I'd be ominous To the ma**es who boxed me in, and thought that it Could keep me silent I'm miming my way out of your mind state Because you'd have to tie me down to keep me from showing out They never thought that I'd be walking in the shoes I'm in 254, 265. Always stay reppin' [Hook] Way too young to be reminiscing Yesterday was just the beginning They used to ask me "Why you always on that Drake sh**? You a poet bro, but homie can you really spit?" Now they look at me when I walk through Put my name on the map, the city coming too So mark my words when I tell you This is just the beginning [Bridge] This is just the beginning Tell me what you gotta say now? Ah-ah tell me what you gotta say now? Used to flow with the tide But I make my own waves now, own waves now Now they look at me when I walk through Put my name on the map the city coming too So mark my words when I tell you This is just the beginning [Outro] This is just the beginning (x4)