Don’t wish me luck, nigga pray for me/ Ask God to come make a way for me/ Sometimes my mind gets away from me/ Who’s gonna come numb the pain for me/ Can’t blame a soul for my misfortune, my mistakes/ I was misguided, I’m years late/ My momma say it’s on God’s time/ My daddy say do the right thing/ Do you believe in Karma, nigga choose your fate/ Do you act with honor, do you want to be great/ I’m grateful for life, appreciate the time/ I want to see the future and be recognized, uh/ It’s no hope without action, faith with no work is dead/ Got to believe without seeing, trust your heart and your head/ I pledge allegiance to myself, the crumbs they give, I’ll turn to wealth/ If I should die before I wake, my dreams will live for other days/ My adolescence, added lessons/ Dodged bullets is blessings/ Confess my sins, see within, feed my soul/ Never missed the message/ Light from a dark place, in a lost space/ In a drag race, here pull the lost to the light/ Lead the blind, put sight on ears/ What you hear, is the world in your eyes/ Fill my cup, so it can pour over/ I raise the bar, we all got to drink/ When the stakes get high, never lose my composure/ My plate get full, we all got to eat/ I’m from the ghetto where devil dwells/ Feeds off hate, the frail gets ate, you go through hell/ I’m cover in blood, the covenant love/ You can bet the stars above, it wasn’t luck// Walk through fire/ To walk on water/ Close my eyes, so I can see/ Took to leap to be free// X2

Yeah/ Alright/ Yeah// What I seen, what I heard/ Smoking on a Cuban, mark my word/ I know who I am, so authentic/ I can’t be nothing if God ain’t in it, I’m winning// Seeing through these niggas like an ultrasound, this that ultra sound/ They ain’t know me, now they know me now, can’t let them hold me down/ The handyman that turned to Candy man, never took a hand me down/ It’s off the handle, heavy, my way won’t weigh me down/ I’m wavy my life did three sixty/ No pump faking, no they can’t fuck with me/ The cat is out the bag, yeah she gave me that kitty/ You niggas better duck, y’all hang around too many mickey’s/ No game of cat and mouse, we burning down the house/ That’s arson, father forgive us for our sins/ I changed the route, they chasing clout, my paper stack in my chase account/ Don’t count me out, bitch watch your mouth, I’m here to reign even though a drought/ Why the fuck my city keep flooding/ It’s too much hate, now they got to let the love in/ Bitch don’t whine, with time it’s gets better/ I rose from the concrete, while sipping this Stella// What I seen, what I heard/ Smoking on a Cuban, mark my word/ I know who I am, so authentic/ I can’t be nothing if God ain’t in it, I’m winning// I love my transparency, what you won’t let your parents see/ It’s apparent, you are a parrot, Mockingbird ain’t no comparing me/ Don’t fix you beak to speak to me, I don’t want to read the tweets/ I wake up to get the worm and then I’m in her pretty wings/ Fly nigga on a runway/ Blessed more than Sunday’s, granny is an Adventist/ If I want something new, then I’ll invent it/ Want to copy paste me, to my family, I’m the glue/ I’m hands on, no stick em, catch a case, before I play the victim/ Don’t stick to the script, read between the lines, got to play the game, just to beat the system/ Boss level, God level/ High score, not at your eye level/ You tripping, this is where it goes down/ From the belly of the beast, a different animal was found/ They knew a star was born, they said I came out too loud/ Get the picture, I’ve been shining bright, this that Ultrasound// What I seen, what I heard/ Smoking on a Cuban, mark my word/ I know who I am, so authentic/ I can’t be nothing if God ain’t in it, I’m winning// Yeah/ Alright/ Yeah/ Alright//

Once upon a time you was the man in the city/ Once upon a time everybody knew your name/ Once upon a time it was nothing but love/ Just another sad song, Eddie King/ Nights like this I wish that it would rain/ Nights like this I knew that nothing was the same/ Every night I got to fight to prove my love/ Just another sad song, Eddie King// Ha, you down bad, you fumbled the bag, you can’t get it back/ Running it up, chasing the life, and got caught with a sack/ Had the world in your hand, everything on demand, and it got crush/ Can’t do what you meant to, fuck with your mental, nigga you stuck/ What, product of environment, get out the hood or die in it/ The dying just to hold some weight, chopper put em on a diet quick/ Mama need a psychiatrist/ Ain’t pleasant when they stuck in the present, you watch em lose they gift// Once upon a time you was the man in the city/ Once upon a time everybody knew your name/ Once upon a time it was nothing but love/ Just another sad song, Eddie King/ Nights like this I wish that it would rain/ Nights like this I knew that nothing was the same/ Every night I got to fight to prove my love/ Just another sad song, Eddie King// Time and time again, I had to turn around and tell these hoes/ Bitch it’s friend or foe, I’m in the middle of these five’s and four’s/ It’s war going on outside, no man is safe from/ Bitch stop running around, come here and shake something/ Is it a heart in the house of love, when all I feel is hate/ Niggas dying way to early just to seeing the pearly gates/ No we haven’t finished yet, I ain’t leaving with regrets/ Y’all gonna get the best of me, until my last five heartbeats// Once upon a time you was the man in the city/ Once upon a time everybody knew your name/ Once upon a time it was nothing but love/ Just another sad song, Eddie King/ Nights like this I wish that it would rain/ Nights like this I knew that nothing was the same/ Every night I got to fight to prove my love/ Just another sad song, Eddie King// Nights like this I wish that it would rain//

Face down, girl pick your head up/ That’s the way I’m suppose to build you up/ When I need healing, you know that procedure/ I’ll give you a rib, because that’s where I need ya/ Uh/ You hate the way I move on social media/ My baby, can’t none of these hoes compete with cha/ I just sip my tea and mind my business/ Let them niggas come with thirst, I know I’m pleasing ya/ Uh/ You my sativa and my indica/ You need the indications to show you I ain’t giving up/ You need vacations to stamp your passport/ We pass poor, trust is the foundation that I ask for/ Uh/ Through the frustration, and discrepancies/ You see me in ways to make a better me/ I was Bill Bellamy, how to be player/ You ain’t bail on me, because this bond ain’t never wavered/ Uh/ What’s a like, double tap, fuck you right/ What they share ain’t our story, we can go live tonight/ What they see ain’t no filter, you already got the light Yeah they say love is blind, what we got out of sight, alright// Yeah, you was the one I use to mention, got you big headed/ I remember where I met you, and I won’t forget it/ Yeah, now we on this mission, look at where we’re headed/ It’s getting heavy/ I need you right here by my side/ Ain’t no slowing down/ We ain’t no time to play around/ I need you right here by my side/ Yeah the only way is up/ It don’t matter if the world’s against us/ I need you by my side// Uh/ You love the way I talk about your favorite features/ You smile and say I make you sick, that’s baby fever/ A rocky start, ain’t fall apart, this a different creed/ We pray together, I am a believer/ Uh/ We played UNO on the first day/ Shit got wild, that honey Jack made that ass shake/ Now I got you putting honey on everything/ I be keeping to myself, lose you that shit is gonna sting/ Uh/ You know our privacy is paradise/ I’ll never paralyze your life, I want you flying high/ I want you to have your business, and to multiple/ I apply the pressure, I need you to make the sacrifice/ Uh/ I ain’t stop, can’t pump fake, I shot my shot/ You called me out when I got foul, I was surprised I wasn’t blocked/ I put it down, we layup, you got that jelly I can feel/ You was never the rebound, my baby you are a steal, for real// Yeah, you was the one I use to mention, got you big headed/ I remember where I met you, and I won’t forget it/ Yeah, now we on this mission, look at where we’re headed/ It’s getting heavy/ I need you right here by my side/ Ain’t no slowing down/ We ain’t no time to play around/ I need you right here by my side/ Yeah the only way is up/ It don’t matter if the world’s against us/ I need you by my side//

It’s a war inside my head, got to pray for peace/ All the pressures of the world, don’t come with empathy/ Yeah the devil is a liar and my enemy/ I just talk to God, that’s my therapy, my therapy/ Paranoid, I been losing sleep, oh lord/ I get high, much anxiety/ Yeah the devil is a liar and my enemy/ I just talk to God, that’s my therapy, my therapy// They ask, who do you vent to/ Who do you run to, what’s your escape/ How many test you take before you break/ Make you want to put on that mask from Crystal Lake/ What cause you stress, what gives you pain/ A clouded mind, a heavy heart, a constant strain/ What makes you want to put a pistol to your temple/ Heavy is the head that wears the crown, and the body is the temple/ It’s simple, my nigga you a king/ Made in God's image, do you know your power, can't be devoured/ So much to give, they can drag you through dirt and you coming out clean/ Somebody to told me/ Your first mistake won't be your last/ Keep your foot right on the gas/ For Every heart beat, you might have heartbreaks/ But this too shall pass, yeah// It’s a war inside my head, got to pray for peace/ All the pressures of the world, don’t come with empathy/ Yeah the devil is a liar and my enemy/ I just talk to God, that’s my therapy, my therapy/ Paranoid, I been losing sleep/ I get high, much anxiety/ Yeah the devil is a liar and my enemy/ I just talk to God, that’s my therapy, my therapy// I done seen the lows, I done felt the highs/ Had to hit the floor, fear me my eyes/ In the house with granny, it was shootouts in the alley/ Could’ve hit me in the belly, bullet ripped through the wall/ Running from death, the more that I saw/ No scene from saw, dead body pulled from a house/ Auntie on her death bed, spitting blood out her mouth/ On the crouch, it’s sinking in, my little cousin drowned/ They arguing over bullshit, my daddy and Shawn/ Losing their mind, both making bad decisions/ Police outside, now who want to play the victim/ It’s a mental incision, this shit just cutting deeper with time/ I’m scarred from the lost of my creation/ Lacerated, and I’m still filled with hatred/ Hard pill I got to swallow won’t set me free/ I need the world to know I battle with PTSD/ It’s a war inside my head, got to pray for peace/ All the pressures of the world, don’t come with empathy/ Yeah the devil is a liar and my enemy/ I just talk to God, that’s my therapy, my therapy/ Paranoid, I been losing sleep/ I get high, much anxiety/ Yeah the devil is a liar and my enemy/ I just talk to God, that’s my therapy, my therapy//

Slow motion, eyes wide open/ Damn, the world hit me with a blindfold/ I was out of sight, made me want to hide/ Life unfolding in front of me, started forfeiting my mind/ Down a rabbit hole, I was wondering/ Why did I exist, why I’m stuck in this abyss/ Life’s a bitch, and it’s filled with mazes/ All these different stages, all these changing faces, That shit will leave you confused/ Yeah the cards was stacked against me, I was set up to lose/ I use to run from the truth, I wasn’t reading no books/ I wasn’t growing, I was in diluted soil/ Being loyal to the polluted, and knew that I was killing my roots/ I was doubting me, asking who looking out for me/ Had to turn to the alpha me, and change my outlook/ The source to my outlet, plugged in to wise/ Beat the odds, now my eyes on the prize// Had to take a leap of faith/ Had to get up out my way/ Dark nights, made brighter days/ I was skipping steps, use to jump to conclusions/ Hands off the wheel, now I’m moving/ Had to take a leap of faith/ Had to make a sacrifice/ Lord knows I wasn’t living right/ I was down bad, use to think that I would break/ Right on time is never too late/ Take a leap of faith// Five mile runs to jog my memory/ Vividly remember you acting like you believed in me/ Said I’ll never walk alone, had me feeling good/ Don’t let me be misunderstood, I thought I need a Samone/ I got to carry on, I was held back/ Put my dreams aside, to put you on the map/ All these women been my vices, I’m still paying prices/ I’ve been trying to live righteous and still under attack/ My memoir makes me want more/ This is a different cloth, don’t look at what I wore/ I was at war with myself, no mission for tomorrow/ Today this battle is different, I know my time is borrowed/ Talked to Ray about how I use to feel defeated, deflated/ Uncomfortable conversations that’s appreciated/ I been waiting my whole life for a chance to win/ I give the glory to God that’s where it all begins// Had to take a leap of faith/ Had to get up out my way/ Dark nights, made brighter days/ I was skipping steps, use to jump to conclusions/ Hands off the wheel, now I’m moving/ Had to take a leap of faith/ Had to make a sacrifice/ Lord knows I wasn’t living right/ I was down bad, use to think that I would break/ Right on time is never too late/ Take a leap of faith// (Courtney Bell Verse) Time moving linear, broken days made me ante up/ Enter the darkest moments, life’s a movie, my cinema/ Had me at the altar, my soul all I got to offer/ These lyrics, never me speaking, just dead homies from the coffins/ Caught and lost in the darkness, this trauma I choose to harbor/ Self sabotaging I decided to unwind my karma/ Faith is all the unseen, but I see and speak it in partial/ Meditation brought me to surrendering on my calling/ Look, falling as I stand on a path to become a man/ I sold drugs to my own, pray my grandma can innerstand/ Searching deep for the God she told me was in the sky/ Took a shroom and realized all answers come from inside/ Wish mama would have told me that it’s ok if you cried/ Now I visit the little me, and be the father that I need most/ I’m thankful I stood firm when on the ropes/ Standing at this cliff bout to fall into the unknown// Had to take a leap of faith/ Had to get up out my way/ Dark nights, made brighter days/ I was skipping steps, use to jump to conclusions/ Hands off the wheel, now I’m moving/ Had to take a leap of faith/ Had to make a sacrifice/ Lord knows I wasn’t living right/ I was down bad, use to think that I would break/ Right on time is never too late/ Take a leap of faith//

Ha, you know the sky is the limit/ Hustle for that paper, it ain’t got no limits/ Hop up in the ride and I push it to the limit/ Make her say ugh, no limit/ Ha, you know the sky is the limit/ Hustle for that paper, it ain’t got no limits/ Hop up in the ride and I push it to the limit/ Make her say ugh, no limit// I use to want to be like Master P/ Turn my life into a masterpiece/ Peace, the is art and fact/ Before I leave, this will be an ancient artifact/ Rely the message, I’m an anchor in my own race/ Moving at my own pace, and still come in first place/ All this blood, sweat, and tears that I spilled through the years/ Now we spitting Bel-Air, just to go to bel-air, now I’m turning my life into a movie/ Niggas don’t move me, they move off emotion/ A bitch nigga trait, tell the truth to a bitch nigga face/ Now he feeling like a goofy/ Never wife a groupie, they move off hype/ Get the head and get out of sight/ Now they saying that I’m out my mind/ It’s all wit, do whatever it takes/ Got to push it to the max, no brakes, huh// (Asaka The Renegade Verse) This pad and pen of mine, would have you thinking I invented rhymes/ I still remember times when I was broke and had to fend for mine/ If I spent a dime, I got it back as if I lended mine/ Just know I got the crown, and it’s clearer than Invisalign, give it time/ I am not with the lames/ Got a hustle and got me some changes/ Like Mystikal and the Master P video, you know sitting on top of the rim/ In other words, I’m on top of my game/ Better watch what you saying, the renegade, I’m fly and you been delayed/ Went around the roadblocks like construction on interstate/ I been eating good, trust me my nigga, I’m getting paid/ Yeah I’m known for putting all of these beats on my dinner plate/ I am top ten, top pen, that guy, not them/ That nigga, not him, paid in full Rakim/ Barbados all in my blood, ain’t no hoe in it/ They asked when the bars stop, I told them, no limits// Ha, you know the sky is the limit/ Hustle for that paper, it ain’t got no limits/ Hop up in the ride and I push it to the limit/ Make her say ugh, no limit/ Ha, you know the sky is the limit/ Hustle for that paper, it ain’t got no limits/ Hop up in the ride and I push it to the limit/ Make her say ugh, no limit//

Feet on ground/ Running up the score, and I just touched down/ All about my coin, let’s mint this shit/ I’m talking real big bags, and I meant that shit/ I got my eyes on the prize, Mike is the eye of the shooter/ All these niggas the same, they love to copy maneuvers/ They time is over, wait, they washed up, scrubs, loofah’s/ I got my weight up, wake up bitch, you the biggest loser/ I’m God lit, walking through this gauntlet/ Snap of a finger, your future I can’t call it/ No psychic, nobody’s side kick, no psyching me out/ Niggas change up quick, ain’t no striking me out/ Strike my pose, I oppose anything that don’t matter/ Coming from the bottom, now I’m climbing Jacob’s ladder/ Walking with the giant, by all means, I’ll define it/ Ain’t no stopping me, bitch please, I’m defiant/ The flyest, the finest, your highness, uh, king Midas, this is a gold mind/ The hieroglyphic’s, they can’t decode mine/ No glitch in my spirit, this is a heart of gold/ Got to break the mold, got Angel numbers for your demon time/ Eleven eleven, new beginnings, it’s on/ Red eyes, high, flying to a different time zone/ Smoke em out, weed em out, yeah I’m a new strain/ I got that bounce to my ounce, y’all lying on the gram/ I’m a brand name, I’ma leave my mark, my time get stitched/ Bitch, this is squid game, and I’m on a roll 4, 5, 6/ This is the Big Bang, my theory they hear me, The weak will get weary/ Clearly only God can steer me, yeah in my own lane/ I was on a rocky road, hands on the wheel, can’t lose control/ I put my grind in overdrive, coming for everything I’m owed/ Old school mentality, changed my reality/ Could have been fatalities in that expedition, now I’m in go mode/ I got the green light/ Heads up I got to take this to extreme height/ New levels, new bezels for the home team/ I’m from Detroit, where it’s get that shit by any means/ Use to put my life on hold, watch other people life unfold/ Now I’m giving you something you can feel, hold on, that’s En Vogue/ Got to see my face in Vogue, I got to see my name in the sky/ Got to get my flowers while I’m here, I can’t be no thorn in my side/ Fuck shit don’t get no energy, not eating off my dime/ If they didn’t believe in me, erase them from my mind/ I’m no mime, when I move I’ma make sure y’all hear me/ I know who’s riding with me, and who I’m leaving behind/ This is not a sprint, let’s go distance, it’s a marathon/ Niggas be working hard, and going no where on that peloton/ Bitch I’m on track, I run this race, because don’t have a choice/ And this ain’t the finish line, it’s the checkpoint//