Emerald City - What Is ? (feat. Wani Ray, Big Han, Ceddy Machiavelli & TMI)

I've been down bad lately, really trying to come up
Emerald city getting motion, but I feel like I'm stuck
I ain't drop, it's been a year, felt like giving it up
Cuz' the music like Milwaukee, but I ain't making no bucks
Still black with these locs, pressure heavy as fuck
Even with all the hustle, still down on my luck
Feeling beat by the game, like I relate to the puck
Feeling beat by the game, like I relate to the puck
Knocked me off my square, but couldn't phase me
This is just what happens on a daily
Look me in my face, then cut me way deep
I could talk to you, but I'd be crazy
Don't have anything left in me lately
Lately, I get crazy
This ain't Gotham baby
You can't fucking save me
Yeah
I'm gone
You can't fucking phase me
Scaling up this shit in hopes that I can tip the scales
Throwing every dollar made into the wishing well
Show my mom the risks I'm taking, know that they ain't sitting well
Regardless of what I do, I know my mama wish me well
Don't get locked up, kid, I do not have the bread for bail
I'm like chill, I ain't like these other niggas raising hell
Knowing damn well I was, slap you if disrespected
So I stay out conversations with niggas that took the blue pill
Wouldn't trip if I ain't make it, lil' bro, I know you will
I'll just play my part and get accolades like I'm Lou Will
Niggas efforts is futile, attempts to knock me off
I laught it off, "Does this amuse you?"
Yes, it does
Knocked me off my square, but couldn't phase me
This is just what happens on a daily
Look me in my face, then cut me way deep
I could talk to you, but I'd be crazy
Don't have anything left in me lately
Lately, I get crazy
This ain't Gotham baby
You can't fucking save me
Yeah
I'm gone
Knocked me off my square, but motherfuckers couldn't phase us
People come and go, I know how quick they is to change up
Violence what I came from, solid to the veins, huh
Smiling in your face, huh
Yeah, they be the same ones who plot on your defeat
See, I'm a deity on beats, it's just me and EMC
20 deep inside the streets, enough to fill up fucking Jeeps
I was clutch & uppin' heat, on anyone who wanted beef
Chasing dreams, ducking police, got a son I gotta feed
So I do it all for him, the means justify the ends
What's right and wrong, it all depends
On this song, I'm like a friend
Teaching humans, dropping gems
Superhuman with the pen
See these writtens be like scriptures
Written scribbles with the lens
Through God's eye, a Horus
The more that I endure, the more I adore
Being dormant, but I gotta keep it pushing
They regretting overlooking
They really thought I couldn't, but I really knew I could
Spent years inside the hood, unscathed and good
Lay up and one, I'm still scoring like I should
Lay up and won, I'm still scoring like I should
Knocked me off my square, but couldn't phase me
This is just what happens on a daily
Look me in my face, then cut me way deep
I could talk to you, but I'd be crazy
Don't have anything left in me lately
Lately, I get crazy
This ain't Gotham baby
You can't fucking save me
Yeah
I'm gone

Written by:
Cedric Sonnick, Cedrick Sonnick, Cheston Bulgin, Jordan Ray, Juwan Ray, Tory Irvin

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Lyrics © O/B/O DistroKid

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