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from Portrait of a Madman by Novatore

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lyrics

shit aint what it seems in anything..
People seeming like they’re thriving but there really aint too Many kings..
Some are surviving some are dying out..
seems like You never know your fate until its too late, to find an out
Im putting one up for my underdogs.
The ones thats always overlooked, and always booked as the underboss
The ones who love to grind- even when it feels like
its futile will it come the day that we done with loss?
dues beyond paid, fans, but no Beyonce
Empty stands but our souls burning like Pompeii
No record deals or fat paychecks but still kill
And still will in death, wilding from beyond the grave
Been 7 years for me, a struggle but I’ve kept the vision
we love the music , dont confuse it for the recognition
Its unconditional my love for this..
and when you strip away the politics what’s left is just the love to spit
I got a job that I would love to quit
And thats a fact for most underground rappers they would not admit
and I dont blame em cuz I feel it too
know there’s shame in saying that you haven’t made it - but I speak the truth

[scratch hook]

Its an upstream battle like I was D-rose
im Grinding 24-7 though the streams low
I aint wack but still lacking in dimes
im Feeling like… im shaq in his prime throwing a free throw
Cuz down low im a menace blocking the top shots
but at the top of the line homie im not hot
and I will not stop strangling beats and dropping
track after track til you ask how I am not popping
and I aint broke but im devoted to lift
up my green levels Like im smoking a spliff
and People say this aint a job when we know that it is
But im just im hoping im promoted from the opening shift
my pen is stroking from the moment I get
Home until the moment that im stroking my shit
they disrespect when they know that im sick
And if my flow amassed dough then They’d be groping my dick

[scratch hook]

I’ll Never front tho, it hurts when the funds low
i might make - some money off a track but its dumb slow
A month of sales I couldn’t made that in one show
But since corona hit I haven’t played out in months though
But I aint dead yet.. I wont accept death
You better respect or you gon get flipped like tech decks
I know I’m hot though not - on wikepdia
And I aint got a blue check yet on social media
People flock to fame…and so they rock w lames
I flock to flame to those who hot and not just popping names
We not the same not gone rot until I jot my name
Within this game try and stop me and its Glock to brain
Soft to hard I evolved like I’m rocking cane
Hardest in the mix you jock my shit and ima pop a vein
A weapons kept cut the biters got a lot to gain
the Pocket on my ass got a mask like im robbing trains

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from Portrait of a Madman, released November 1, 2020

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