Mansa Musa

First off
Before i go off
To my boo
I love anything we do
You're all the things i wanna be
I need yo sass and your promotion
Ultimately
You've made a man of me
Before we went to bed
You were in my head
Before the head
You knew my cred
Before the debt
Foes fled
Kinda odd
Flew the coop
Cause' we co-op
Police
Policy
Our opps
I opt-out
Every time
To take off the crown
I ain't a king of a city
That don't believe in me
When the crowd flood in
Don't drown
Tryna' hold me down
Under the wave
When I'm Moses
Watch them close in
Shadowy motions
Like I ain't got emotions
Forgetting I chose this
Despite the hellish
Despite the locusts
But strings plucked
Like Herc' I'm fucked
If titans in the industry
Think me as teen
Robbing me for all I've seen
Like my shit don't stink
Like my star ain't fire
Cause' I'm raving for the green wired
Well watch them cheer
I'm the electric
Like green mile
What's more likely
You not recording something
the same as someone else's
Or Brexit
Check it
Look
Less is felt
If you pride yourself
On what was scribed
Knowing the track
Is referenced overtime
A lie in itself
But you try
To mask it
At the masquerade
Instead of the acceptance
You tell yourself performance
That's how you made
So it's conformance
Of course it is
You're no actor
You're just getting played
Every situation
Think its gold
Think it's some profound creation
But they're as uninformed as you are
Too impatient
To pick up a book
To go beyond
The past repeats itself
Cause' you too lazy to dream on
Instead you dance
To the same damn ringtone
Can't wait till' you think what I'm on
Why replay
When there's a reset button
Watching a screensaver
When you could've clicked on something
Can't call you idiot
Got enough sense to not
Miss a gift
Who gon' not fill pockets up
Who would throwaway that membership
Who wouldn't reap they earnings
Who wouldn't ignore the warnings
Who wouldn't miss a few curfews
If the club pay to keep you
But why be owned
Why bicker over masters
When you have over 10 thousand hours in mattering
Or why be Khaled when
You know you're the commercial
Balancing
You're likely at the time
Cause' of formulaic props
Or mainstream pops
Not in the way Igor's hot
You don't have a fanbase
You just portray what we want
You just say it
To this industry
You just play yo' fucking part
Without them
You wouldn't have a shot in the dark
Without them yo' whole fucking life falls apart
So don't be mad
When you're trapped
Being the 2nd on the chart
To Pollard nigga
To Pollard
That goes for everybody
That goes for everybody