I'm not one for stuntin, prefer to rap with substance
not your average puppet rapper, always actin tough its
Not the way I role, I take control, and pack the punches
Drunk Ass cat from Suffolk, All I do's attrack the ruckus
Represent Strong I. vibe to boom bap percussions
Since Jr High, making music in the back of buses
Caused this lapse of judgement, all day havin grudges
Cuz I spent my youth, cooped up in a ragged dungeon
That's why my dreams squashed, can't seem to shake it off
All day writing rhymes, Never please. p off
It's starts to sound the same, people wanna doubt my reign
douche my flame, make round about claims
that I ain't a proud to say, I been about this game
for countless days way before and MJ was touting Hanes
I'll about face flip the script, bringin raw intensity
Think back when hip hop had that thing called integrity


HOOK 2x
"I am what I what I am, cause that's all I can be"
"Most people life controlled by the things they worship"
"The fame, big house, money and the nice whips
Is that what life is I thought it was priceless"

Van G verse:
Let me spit a couple bars so I could rep my clique
two years asleep but I didn't even stop to think
Theres no restriction to hold back now
Theres more conviction to blow back cowards
It don't sell well when your reach is limited
Cause your record deal prefers being primitive
so can you even compete with this
I don't play the guitar but I got nice riffs
See I'm the nicest to apply this and I decided
to let you slide, who's on your side
so don't call your neighbor better call the major
tell em your the trader so you can be penetrated
your a perpetrator, you like a sixth grader
with no career goals and like a cheese grater
your full of holes, cause you aint paid the toll
and in the end you can lose your soul


HOOK 2x

I'm not about swagger, I'd rather speak with daggers
Rather keep to myself, then meet and greet with maggots
Bunch of sleazy actors, all playing jack the rappers
Gasin each other up, Motherfucker crack the cameras
Cut the T.V. off, reach across the freaking boundaries
Think outside the box, hip hop where we keep it rowdy
We pioneered rebellion now we selling cliches
These days I'm bout to trade my mic for a brief case
It sad to say, but hey, I'm god damn either way
Still I stay Self Defined, Self sufficient, seize the day
Never concede my fate, stay calm never nervous
Never trade self respect for a blank check or purchase
I'm rich in mental strength all the rest to me is worthless
Refuse to fall victim to this concept of worship
When man verse himself, that called insane to me
But I stay up beat, speak free and preach integrity