Magic

Ready, ready, ready, ready Bounce Making magic In the studio Making magic Ah, here we go Making magic It's whatever you know Making magic The original Making magic In the studio Making magic Ah, here we go Making magic Come on, y'all Making magic OK Now check it out I make magic when I talk and whenever I walk Wherever I go, it seems magic always follow Hello, it's me The one to be making all of the beats on the album And the only outcome is success and signing off big checks And all of that other business shit that we're told to do But maybe I don't want to See, I'm having a lot of fun on my own Independently produced and created I don't rely on samples in my work no more And it can't be understated how much that has an impact I emailed a label the other day to clear a sample They told me I was trash Well, that's a lie But they said it wasn't possible But that's another obstacle for independent artists You sample a second of music, then you start charting Then the lawsuits come in Money hungry estates trying to make cash off of they kin That ain't the way I do it If I want to make some shit, I pursue it And then I put it out for everyone to touch Flip, sample, remix, and such I've had enough The industry is corrupt Exploit the artist, then leave 'em in the dust F*ck that I'ma do what I do And if you wanna use the beat, then just use it Tell everybody who made it, though I'm still the most skilled Never get it mistaken, ho Making magic In the studio Making magic Come on, here we go Making magic The original Making magic The mystical Making magic Uh, the magical Making magic You can steal the flow Making magic But you still can't roll The way that I roll Let me express in the form of a rhyme Something I've been thinking on for a long time It has to do with the musical pipeline The way the beats are produced online Follow Step one A man makes loops Step two He sends it off to get souped up This about a three-man process Mix master Add ear candy and effects And that's just the melody It's already starting to get devoid of creativity Then we get to the drums Someone downloads the loop and adds some Then sends the beat to someone That someone adds more drums Then someone else adds hats Then someone else soups the kicks up and sidechains the bass The bass line needs work I know a guy that knows a guy that's good with 808s Ah, but what about the mix? The mix? The mix gets handled by my buddy named Rick And while he at it, he remove the kick The new sauce is remove the kick And now a rapper buys the beat He records all his lyrics piece by piece There's nothing wrong with punching in But a lot of y'all ain't saying nothing I think that's my main issue The song's coming out softer than one-ply tissue No point like one-ply tissue Cum rag like one-ply tissue No bars All mad superficial and the beat suck It ain't got no soul The shit's been made by like ten people And the rapper got three writers They lifestyles is written by industry insiders There's no authenticity The art form has degraded Lost credibility And I think it's mad tragic We started making money and stopped making magic Making magic Yeah, we making it Making magic No mistaking it Making magic Yeah, we playing it Making magic The game we like Making magic The way we like Making magic All day we like Making magic Come on y'all Making magic It's like It's like Bounce Come on Bounce It's like bounce It's like bounce Come on Bounce Everybody bounce Come on Bounce Check it out like Bounce Follow, bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce Bounce