Ain't it Strange

Got a rep, it ain't the best, but don't believe what they saying
And if you don't think I'm the best, at least you know what my name is
They scared to say it with their chest, they don't know how the game is
They hide behind a screen but couldn't teach you the basics
Ain't it strange how the critics are the people who could never do it
You got a keyboard, you got opinions, nothing to it
But don't comment on some shit that you don't understand
Tell me what to do but I don't follow commands
To me it's all about the bars, I don't care bout a hook
So you want me to make hits? I'll take a swing while you shook
When I'm in college, only time that I'mma stick to the book
Make sure my family's eatin', I'm in the booth when I cook
Man, y'all really need some bread the way you people be jealous
You only listen to the music, but don't care bout the message
And when I'm calling you out, I swear I'm not being reckless
I'm just doing this for me, these people calling me selfish, damn
I said I'm doing this for me, these people calling me selfish
I said, I said, uh

I'm looking in the mirror and I'm looking at the movements
Who's real, who isn't, who's true, who's switching
I'm thinking different, that's what everybody says
Turn the page, what you see, that's everybody's days
Laid about you on the TV screen, and what you doing
You're looking at a magazine with somebody's dream on the front cover
Meanwhile, you looking for a lover
C'mon, get your stuff together brother
All of these stories that I tell, I had to hear em
All those demons that I said I fear, I had to fear em
All those mistakes that I said I made, I had to make em
All those chances that I wish I took, I got em taken
All those people that I said I hate, I don't hate em
No matter how long you look in the mirror you won't break it
I've learned that, they call me selfish but I've earned that
Looking back at my past like I can't escape that
But I can escape the future if I make that decision
But I might take it with precision if it comes to that

In strange times, it's 2020 but a strange sight
Been tryna take flight and they say life's like a hang glide
Wow... cause you land and that's ya grave site
It's kinda strange that I been floatin' but really can't die
And I'm not playin', just sayin' I watch the quarters go
It isn't change if you ain't letting the quarters go
A little sprain now I'm back with the cordozone
I'll bring change, for now I'm just recordin' flows
I am not human, listen I am a part of time
I am music's ambition truly personified
Draw the lines, dot the Is, I'm an artist tryin'
But I'll hit ya pockets like music when it is quantantized
It's kinda strange my city don't ever rest, right
It's kinda strange without a feature from Tech Nine
It's kinda strange I'mma student you shouldn't test, I'm
Workin' on a vision so that I can help the rest glide
Fire

Bottom line, I stay true in all my rhymes
I solidified the meaning of learning from the wise
I flopped, then came back, I learned from the mistakes
Some people were born with it, some need to take shape
I'm here, whether you like it or not, and I got
More to prove, I make art, belongs in the Louvre
And I'm sculpting a future, cause I ain't here for the humor
And when I take a lane, that's just a sign that it's time for you to move
Ain't it strange
LEN