tell me what art is... mr. artist
I'on know something only major labels market
a small bright light that emerged from the darkness
it ain't too important any way that I define it
art doesn't sell and I'm only being honest
hip hop's skull's in the middle of my closet
to find art tell me where I should go
all the cuz the mainstream got a murky flow
I can blame it on this, I can blame it on that
no cell block four where they wear black hats
everybody say they like when I rhyme abstract
i'm the man they should watch but i'm still rorshach
and the folks like dawg tell us who you are
I can find no portrait in your bars
but chill bul I ain't tryna play you
just saying how u are they can easily replace you


I ain't tryna say I don't care what you been thru
all that I can say I don't see a star in you
real cool beats with some real hot rhymes
if the sky went black I ain't sure that you would shine(2x)

at first -I ain't let nobody hear would I write
but I couldn't play chess being scared of summer knights
with my cowardice in check put my life in a mic
looking for a big break in the truck head lights
I whispered emcee now I'm sho I can shout
more bars that I make more that I lock up doubts
realist in me is saying look for a career
but it wouldn't suit me not now or in years
no matter what I'd wear I‘m sure that it would wear
tear thru my soul and the full moon rose so I gotta be a were, yea
my mother don't like that I practice flows
but it's not like I don't want practical
money gon come here whether fast or slow
and I rather have no shoes than no soul
and I know that- some gon feel like my line got lifted
but part of my ambition is showing you I'm gifted

I ain't tryna say I don't care what you been thru
all that I can say I don't see a star in you
real cool beats with some real hot rhymes
if the sky went black I ain't sure that you would shine(2x)

I'm sensing the level that I'm rhyming at
is in place way higher than the common rap
Juggernaut, he could never go as hard as that
no pause in fact no, no star 69 can't dial it back
I got no idea how the poorest rest
so little I can bear no porridge left
i'm a boy in the game in a grown man stance
seen color on the screen now I'm trying to advance
tho there's no kind words you can offer me
yo the force is real and it's all for me

I ain't tryna say I don't care what you been thru
all that I can say I don't see a star in you
real cool beats with some real hot rhymes
if the sky went black I ain't sure that you would shine(2x)