Potence

When I was growin' up Dropped all my Melanin Bellowin' bullshit until I was interrupt Not ever mellowin' Always irreverent Hellion needed his sippy cup Enough of the backin' up Packin' the rhymes and leave you to judge Unfurl the tape, leave you a Grudge Shaka get nothin' like curls Bars just not made like the Earls Quotables, maybe some pearls Tell me what's poppin' like oil? Ay, you hear what I'm facin'? Puff on the spliff 'til I'm square, like freemason When I was growin' up Dancin' to Michael and breakin' Bionicles I won't be gone until- Slow it up I went from battlin' dragons in castles to throwin' up all the hard liquor I hold the rum Clutchin' it, I'm in a subterfuge There's a sharp difference with them and us I cannot f*ck with them other dudes H.O.M.E.S got the soup, nigga, guzzle up Buck at your crew, nigga Chewin' on an emcee Loose ligament Spew out the roots of obtuse lyricists Mix it with sickening juice experiment Fuse it with ripped apart, stupid middlemen F*ck When I was growin' up I had a little but I wasn't showin' none That's when I noticed that I just be slowin' up See who I am and you never could know enough Wait 'til I sober up Growin' up These brothas see what I'm doin' and they really don't give a f*ck Gotta give shouts to Murphy Followed the law and my couch is surfin' Got employers to vouch by ignorin' my friends A tough thing to choose, but I tied up the ends I can never lose until after I win And then I can relax and focus on my past It's kinda backwards that I picked up a toy and played with it when I'm an adult Sport is gone Hop on the saddle I need a Play-Doh container A couple of marbles to straddle "You always ramble Always better than everyone else and you wearin' the sandles You gotta pick up your act You gotta pick up the slack You gotta stick in the shack And it's as simple as that, no need to belittle the facts" But, with the riddle intact, I break through the cracks and f*ck up my legacy It's not the dosage It's potence That makes the flow straight the dopest Up the dosage Up the dosage I need more of that fuckin' potion I just hope that it’ll hold me over Drugs called twice, but we’ve barely spoken Been up all night, see the air? I'm tokin' Scared, and low key I just hope we Build up an immunity to these f*ck niggas and misanthropy My lungs black like I’m from Nairobi I wanna go Cass Street Elementary Eat my cheese and pack heat with the celery Mis en scene but you fake like reverie Referee telling me my periphery and how to sleep You think Adam dreamt about leavin' Eve? Don’t you think about leavin' me This shit potent like apple tree Girl, I'm dyin' for ya I be vyin' for it I be drownin' in it I be drownin' in it Girl, I be drownin' in it