Down In The Basement

I'm down here You won't see me but you might hear me Let's go I'm looking like a mad hatter but I'm madder than hell Coming outta shit like roses glad you can smell This part of me was dead but now it's brought back It's been too many years like an Aaron Judge contract Is this a split personality or an alter ego? I don't care for the fame, rather be incognito I keep identities separate like its apartheid While J's nine to five-in, I'm only rapping on part time But I'm still filling arenas like it's game time Bringing big guns call me Gilbert Arenas Last time I was asked for a feature they came back With a redraft when they played it back on the speaker My catalogue's a basement, a lot of it's unfinished Indecisiveness can swallow you whole, maybe I'm not committed These thoughts are pounding my head I need Excedrin E.Cole I is the alias but it used to be Seddon I'm staying in so I'm penning this 16 I'm not in the club like it's Pen and a 15 So which way is up? I'm trying to find some fucking balance But I only eat the meat and I'm never touching the salad I'll be down in the basement Working all day I'm not getting complacent Music on blast, got the fucking lights low In my own space (hell are you?) This my own throne These are Chinese buffet rules, you eat what you take All that greed catches up, you reap what you fake It's not natural when everything is performative Reality is distorted, the algorithm is rewarding it Ya need attention at all costs, that's all that matters Known Chinese spyware but you gotta have it It's the code that y'all are trying to crack Is the same one making you a variety act So flip that camera around and make some Tik Toks Feels like kidney stones, trying to piss rocks I fall silent like someone murdered the disc jock But it wasn't me, Shaggy, or Rik Rok I'm getting all these critiques they're unsolicited Like I took a career I had no business in The liquid flows to only those who are thirsty Go ahead take your bows but all I'm seeing are curtsies Must be something I'm missing or am I too stupid? Seems like everything is cringe, only levels to it Don't hate the game but the game is ruthless This like Jack part two 'cause I'm still clueless I'll be down in the basement Working all day I'm not getting complacent Music on blast, got the fucking lights low In my own space (hell are you?) This my own throne