Chain of Command

Yeah

They don't make shit sound dirty like this, Harry

Let me talk to 'em real quick

Yeah, look what you all did to me

But I turned all that blissful misery into ministry

Excuse my delivery, but I don't really mince words

I don't approach with tense nerves, that's how us men purge

You're shitting me, the things that I'm capable of physically

That's with my bare hands, I could spin blocks and bend curves, victory

Everything about Ran is a mystery

Except my ability, I etch my name out in history

Sketch the paint out so vividly, it's artistry

I paint things horribly and turn my poverty into sovereignty

They still looking awkwardly, they thinking I'm a novelty

Or some anomaly 'cause I write my lyrics with honesty

Yeah, it's a part of me, just skim through my discography

Majority'll say I'm the greatest breathing, arguably

Yeah, y'all just making things hard for me

But wholeheartedly, they won't bow down to authority

No time for playing games, don't want to have to start naming names

But I'ma say some names 'cause

A chain of command is the only chain I claim

So don't ever stall the line and fall behind by chasing fame, damn

And now we gotta wonder who raised y'all

Real **** don't play hard 'cause ain't no coming back from a graveyard

No timid blood run through these brave hearts

I'm hoping you stay sharp and never turn your back in a face-off

They thinking I'm kind of nuts and still wondering where my screws went

In 1999, they was checking me for some new prints

Little red Corvette, purple rain on my new mink

In my lifetime, no reasonable doubt, I gave him the blueprint

And never got a title, but scripted the Holy Grail in a Bible

Loaded tales of arrival

They said it was written that hip-hop was nearly dead on arrival

I fed a fest for survival, no tears are shed for your idols

Turn civilized men to savage to see that is true

'Cause, ****, I am magic, too, we passing through

Stop your moles in a glass house, they throwing rocks and stones

Still, life is good, but you gotta watch the throne

And if you don't, you get a king's disease

They say I'm like Jordan with unfinished business, how many rings you need?

I'm God's son, but still a street disciple

They say the worst thing you could do is try to beat your idols

No time for playing games, don't want to have to start naming names

But I'ma say some names 'cause

A chain of command is the only chain I claim

So don't ever stall the line and fall behind by chasing fame, damn

And now we gotta wonder who raised y'all

Real **** don't play hard 'cause ain't no coming back from a graveyard

No timid blood run through these brave hearts

I'm hoping you stay sharp and never turn your back in a face-off