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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Run The Jewels
Performer
EL-P
Performer
Killer Mike
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Jaime Meline
Composer
Michael Render
Composer
Torbitt Schwartz
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
EL-P
Producer
Joe LaPorta
Mastering Engineer
joey raia
Mixing Engineer
Little Shalimar
Co-Producer
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
That was me and BK on Atlantic
Never looked both ways, ran in traffic
Pop's run away, but I stayed vagrant
Place where the steel and cement became nature
Love what you did with the place, it looks gorgeous
Cityscape where the blood of good men coarses
And the dream is a bull trapped in porcelain
Take a knee to the Gods and get horse shit
[Verse 2]
Wanna live for the thrill? They'll arrange it
Gotta bevy of imps to spit hatred
Shit'll get in your head and cause panic
Have you desperately begging to get famous
Get your dignity dirty, and left orphan
Sanity on the fringe of distorted
Who are they to just take shit and hoard it?
Who am I that I don't get my portion?
[Verse 3]
The most impressionable minds get molested in a form
By manipulating forces
Don't fret little man, don't cry
They can never take your energy inside you were born with
Knowing that, understand you can never be poor
You already won the war, you were born rich
You can only take the energy you had, going back to the realm
Where the home of your Lord is
Whoever, whatever that Lord is
Couldn't give a fuck if you ever made fortunes
Fuck anyone ever trying to run that bump shit
Send 'em to the flames, where the orcs live
Them and I lost minds thinking they're smarter than us
Don't understand love's importance
And we can weaponize that, bring 'em back to the truth
Where the ashes and dust got formed in
[Verse 4]
The beat breaks and your teeth break
Keep your canines embedded in my knuckles as a keepsake
It would seem your veneers just mere souvenirs
Falling out your mouth and onto the landscape
Me and LP do the secret handshake
Then I pummel punch a pumpkin-head punk in his pimple face
Till he punch drunk 'cause he's sweet as a pound cake
Ain't he a pussy, Mike?
Yeah, L, I'll say
[Verse 5]
Into the wild, wildstyle, ghetto child
Running wild, where the lions and the owls stay
The powers that be even offered a reprieve
Told us they ain't take us out if we bow to our knees
But they can give that to the kings and the queens
And the worshipers of idols, and followers of things
'Cause I would rather be in the jungle with the savages
It's kill or be kill and I'm working with the averages
[Verse 6]
My professor Emeritus say we been cursed
Being brought to the Americas
How you raise a whole human, single parent
No marriages, no sense of heritage
Planned Parenthood helped me plan miscarriages
But I'm lucky Mommy already had a narrative
Product of a teenage love, my arrogance to rise
From the pride and the job my parents did
[Verse 7]
Named Mike, I was told it was God-like
Even danced with the Devil, came out alright
Okay, honor y'all? No way
Still spell America with the triple K
Word up to Spice 1 and O'Shea
And any MC peeping' what I go through
Real rap, my last line so true
Rest in peace, Pimp C, and Camu, too
We do it for you
We do it for you
Written by: Jaime Meline, Michael Render, Torbitt Schwartz