machiavelli

mensa, vic

uh

back to reclaim my throne

i'm the prince of the city young machiavelli

staged my own death outwitted my adversaries

from the land of larry hoover where they bury shooters

i'm shining hard stanley kubrick

we don't live by the law

two-time felony charge

gun toting

smoke em like lamar

ball like a young odom

where crack hit the chi same year as michael jordan

my trap phone got more rings than robert horry

i got a story make shakespeare say that's tragic

speak my mind i got a bad habit

became a hazard to my health like corona to an asthmatic

i roc like the old jay but i'm a back stabber

cause i un'd myself

i got better shit on albums i shelved than shit that you went platinum off

too fly for my own good

it's my albatross

i'm a beast boy i just love to self-sabotage

pussy niggas talking down vagina monologue

i ain't running but i'm tired of y'all

i could call farrakhan or i could get you tatted on the limbs of your friends

have em crying like kavanaugh

back on my bully don't be a matador

this ain't no red flag

shooters in red rags

looters in hermes

mask on you still see i'm the future

but i had to learn not to judge a man by his past

so that's all i ask

uh

young machiavelli

still alive across the belly

lemme get it back

lake shore drive with the top back

rocking y project

with my ride or die bitch

nigga where the lox at

had so many conflicts

that shit got crucial

i was really fighting for freedom like desmond tutu

shit is like apartheid

if you see the south side

no upward mobility

that got niggas paralyzed

paper planes snapback

shout to em and ty ty

yeah i did a rock album

that's cause i'm a rock star

i'm from where the moes push rocks like the tomb of jesus

to put new 22's on they coupe

selling d

ducking 12

undercovers looking for proof

i push off the roof like bishop in juice

a window in my reality

two parent household from an immigrant family

middle class salaries

on 47th street by the stones

where they move white out the house same block as obama's home

uh

born alone

die alone it's still save money

i take that to the grave with me

the game's funny

a nigga went from robbing in the hood

to the robin hood of inglewood

i'm feeding niggas

they produced these circumstances by beating niggas

mistreating and misleading niggas

we the niggas jumped ship did some underwater breathing nigga

why i gotta live my death to believe a nigga

still alive

still alive

i'm still alive

i'm still alive