Blink Twice

Uh, look

Hard times, I seen 'em plenty times

Triumph in the eye of the storm, but I had pretty eyes

Penny for my thoughts, all intellect when I spit these dimes

It gave me that it factor, guess I was Pennywise

You're mostly influenced by who involved

When they ain't got nothing to lose to help you to lose it all

Country clubs with luxury estates, with pool and golf

Since the start, my main objective to prove them wrong

Shape of the queen is back

Come from my need for cash

Leader surrounded by sheep where their only dream is naps

Their way of thinking's stifled

They roaming these streets, they trapped

Neighborhoods where their only escape is through fiends and crack

Hold no excuses for myself and others, I just support facts

Don't compare me to anyone who was a bum before rap, nah

Took a year to stack up money, I ain't spend a cent

Built a portfolio of worth, invested ten percent

I played the fool for some type of advantage

My words like a paintbrush, and my life is a canvas

I'm trying to eat, but everyone want a bite out the sandwich

Was the biggest star out my family, it's like Michael and Janet

Started with a CD vision, my pain was the color purple

Only the family matters, I learned from my brother Urkle

If there's snakes in your crew, then there never was a circle

This a marathon, never tripping because of hurdles

The ones from my hometown be the guys who hate

Bunch of **** that's still hanging onto high school fame

Same ones who went off to college, but couldn't last a year

Then they go broke, then they want to start up a rap career

Bunch of peasants that's still waiting 'til my crown falls

Could make an atheist start praying on my downfall

It takes intellect just to ready my verses

If my body language was written, it'd be in cursive

Sometimes

I reminisce and wonder

Why it's so easy to forget