The Statement

Uh, what can I say
I'm just trynna wake up to another day
Believe me, I been looking for another way
To put this down, I guess I got a lot to say
What you got to say, uh

I ain't just another n****, add to figures
They been trying to control me like some action figure
But I built my own and found my own, I'm getting bigger
But they cannot stand the heat, man they just trynna figure
Woah

Heard a lotta people talking down on me
And its same people that I thought'd be proud of me
I guess they cannot stand the fact: I got my own
Made a new path, away from home

They just ducking and diving, they trynna find some cover
Like some couple of papers will finally give em cover
And I ain't talking out my mouth, this s**t is from my mind
Some self-made freedom is what I'm trynna find

Good kid, mad city, uh, I live it live
Ain't for the faint-hearted, they just took a dive
They think they finally found their own, but that's not the truth
They're really held on a leash, and that's that scary truth

Yeah, I seen it all different now
Trynna put it together this s*** is different now
Man, they trynna fight it, they doubt it, it's different now
Heard they trynna put me down, 'cause I am different now, I am different now

Uh, how am I trynna do it? They be asking still
This s*** is really powerful like God's will
I done took a different route and they doubt my skill
I guess I gotta show them that I'm bout to kill

All these jokers be out here posing, mediocre
But they talk down on me coz I'm a nonsmoker
Naked girls is how they sell their visuals
'Cause they got no truth, kinda typical

Whooo, it's getting kinda hot in here
I done stayed more truthful than a lot in here
Ain't trynna alter my values just to get more likes
Somehow that's the pinnacle to more life

I watch them jokers nowadays, they play hard to get
Trynna steer the wealth, the charts in their favour
I see they frightened, we coming hard, we gonna get
What's ours, n****, ain't nobody knock me over

They know they outdated, but be holding on
Holding onto worn-out dreams
And dried-out streams
And dimmed out beams
And torn out seams
And n**** I'd be damned if I ain't knock em over

Uh, pay attention to this new agenda
I just kept it real real without a crooked agenda
I just had to put it down, man I ain't a coward
Man, let em jokers know that they gonna feel my power, feel my power, woah