as god lay us down to sleep i bet the only peep is our heart from the beat half these niggas ain't got the heart to compete they don't trust the fact they gon' find what they seek and all my old friends now fuck with that D they shirts read got it 4 cheap, calling them pusha tees i'm on my knees telling the lord how it is how i'm risking it all, facing all my fears, 'cause you can still be who you wish you is it ain't happened yet, and that's what intuition is HOOK baby girl what you gon' do when you wake up throw on your make up and realize that it's all downhill been out here getting my cake up only to wake up and realize i ain't got no deal, no deal, no deal and if you love me at this point, it best be real, be real, be real and if you love me at this point... this that dear kanye, that dear kanye, that dear kanye this that dear kanye, now take it away that dear kanye, that dear kanye this that dear kanye, now take it away you must be outside your mind to think i'm not outside my mind for being outside on my grind still looking up at all this headroom, and realize there's no opportunities in my bedroom i skipped the college route, and that's not smart to people who at the time didn't have the heart to but they'd change it if that had a restart to but shit on my dreams, like, pshh who are you but still i strive, i'm still going in stride but my car died, so i keep bumming these rides legend has it once i reach my destination i'll be lonely as fuck with the power of a nation stop hating, is that all it takes then, i can give back to those who put me in that placement you can still be who you wish you is it ain't happened yet, and that's what intuition is HOOK

Still doing my thing, like I'm supposed to Watch out, this is my lane, and I won't change until it don't move Y'all look a little famished, and a snack just won't do What we do? We cook it up, cook it up, cook it up, cook it up What we serve? Soul food Owe dues? I'm puzzled as to what I could owe you Did you miss the piece where we show and prove? Who will hate next? All they do is break necks when we roll through I don't know if you could mug any harder Then again.... I don't know if I could shrug any harder Whoop And that's all player, you did it for the money, you's a fraud player The snapback, the v-neck, rosary on deck, she thinking that she fucking with a ball player Oh here, we go, I'm shitting, no time to stall player And fuck an introduction but just in case you didn't know who was all in here It's J.Al, not jayz, not j.cole, not none of that Not j.money, not j.elec, no disrespect but run it back See I'm me, too many times I done love the moment, didn't love him back Too many hoes I fronted on just to get them laying there on their back And I'm hard body, so for it On the road to success, so floor it And I been for it with a flow that's probably hotter than papa bear's porridge and a snack just won't do What we do? We cook it up, cook it up, cook it up, cook it up What we serve? Soul food Look what we started, this is not for the weak hearted They ask for it, we brought it When's the last time you had a feast darling? Ok, you heard things Those Guys what the birds sing Nice tune, not the worst thing When's the last time you had a sure thing?.... huh? cook it up, cook it up, cook it up, cook it up Y'all look a little famished, and a snack just won't do What we do? We cook it up, cook it up, cook it up, cook it up What we serve? Soul food And I'm riding round and I'm getting it, is that soul food and I'm getting it I got their mind, body, and soul hooked, they must think shang tsung serving this shit I tell my opponent, get over here What I'm cooking, I'm gon' premier It's all faith, I let God steer Man no one was around, all of a sudden they all want near Still doing my thing, like I'm supposed to Watch out, this is my lane, and I won't change until it don't move Y'all look a little famished, and a snack just won't do What we do? We cook it up, cook it up, cook it up, cook it up What we serve? Soul food

madness is the method, drastic and aggressive a whole bunch of wreckage, shouldn't have to second guess it the method's still eclectic, but a lot loss collected outside perspective needs corrected ... that's not a mess it's the madness goosebumps, don't go in the basement style the neighbors hate us now noise complaints about the sound that's coming out the crazy house it's wild, banging loud, we're trying to raise child, we're shook to our foundation now you tell me turn it down, you wait a while 'cause madness is the method, sounding like... madness is the method, stop ayo, madness is the method fumblerooski would be our set list the prayer before the show would be our huddle, dont forget this horrendous, the waterboy's coach would probably fit this notepad is full of plays, but on words, they want to get this yor d-line, nah, a scramble through your defenses i holla... then i smake your ass senseless gridiron gang, but cant get in this hard body, rigor mortis, bitch, but dont tempt this that's madness real reckless, and madness is the method, it's sound like... right, right, it's soudning like madness is the... i yawn half of yall think yall big sean, i laugh 'cause most of yall niggas music is ass ass ass wiz past, i kill the game, black and yell black and yellow tape i'm on my level, yeh madness is the method me and the titans clash i'm reclining in the den where they make the lions fat i make my science mad i'm applying the finding of dr jekyll and hydeing tracks you trying that? that's madness real hectic, and madness is the method, it's sounding like... madness is the method, stop demand attention, the windows ain't tinted only talk about the grind, boy, that's cause we in it the blood, sweat, and tears that all come with it but fuck that, let's get get get it hope i am dealing, them coke raps ain't appealing i'm probably labeled a villain if i ever was to give it up but it ain't no hoe in me, sold out shows in me any credentials needed to blow up, that's in me check, you'sa diva, i'm nothing less than ether your broad a reliever for the team, straight keeper me i hit a single, but we way past first base i slide back home, wiping off any dirt trace feel me or feel nothing, poker face pulled your card, all yall still bluffing lightwork, new day, j still hustling so perfect the possible, 'cause impossible is nothing

HOOK you heard what i said, man, i'm willing and able got to break bread if you want to sit at the table the big bad wolf ain't just a fable better build strong 'cause the loud talk won't save you take it or leave it, 'cause they will hate but they hated on Jesus, so we won't break don't trip if it ain't you with the keys in i've said my peace and i do it for good reason might as well chime in what could outlast diamonds top prizing gold to get that silver lining and you should know what's kept in the lining plenty now rhyming that don't know grinding -personally - i was taught it's equally worse to be in a basement or a hearse both won't make it above dirt ... let that sink in now go ahead, send those clashes of lighting down maybe the bright will shed light on the thunder's frighting loud maybe then i can stop fighting sound don't size me up 'cause i don't like to growl not a soul knows the bounds of joe biting down but know, you don't want to be the one that finds it out but don't tempt me, i'm not about the hiding out different mind state when all you know is grind it out HOOK i was born to a single mother who hustled to keep a roof in a city where the soldiers don't even salute they yell give me the loot, coming and killing your troops rolling with steel like Q and bishop in juice army fatigues, carhartts, and timberland boots and they don't dance, if they squeeze, they're raising your roof the streets taking the youth, j.al taking this booth homie if you rap, then i'm talking to you finna give my mama a tower view talk behind my back, that's what a coward do virgin ears tell me spit it raw, i will deflower you must not know i'm so appalled at the sound of you every song is the same song and i'm clowning you stacks on deck, walk the plank, and i'm drowning you bitch nigga i hate the sound of you as far as hits, i dont made a sound or two coming for this, yeah... HOOK

riddle me this what is everything to someone, and nothing to everyone else? so i try and be a hero, the world needs a villain it's cool, i'll hero the spot that needs filled in but all those dirty little secrets, yall gon' have to spill them and that's all i want, got no interest to kill men i'm on a need to know basis i need to know everything behind everybody's faces, yeah knowledge is power brings some thoughts in mind for if knowledge is power, then a god am i i set it off, how dare you try and knock my pride somebody tell the fat lady she's on in five my name reigns champ in the blame game damned if i change lanes names saying my name, that's fine what, you think i don't know? what you think, i'm slow? i wonder what you'd think about if you knew what i know, yeah try and tell me what they think of joe and i'm like... i know. i know... i know...... HOOK and i can be your bad guy because i can't be your mad guy, or sad guy but the bad guy? no worries i got that covered now look at what you have guys a bad guy, be glad guys, i can't care, don't ask why a bad guy since everybody keeps stabbing them i'ma go back to not fucking having them i know you lames wanna poof me bout a year ago, i'm riding in a hoopty now these niggas keep acting like they knew me bout a year ago, i'm knocking off your coofy for all that reckless shit you're saying on FB and if you're so hot for features, quit texting me you know that mic could get flame, no pepsi and i don't have to say it, they say it for me boy, let's get it started, i been for it insane for the game, i got a ball and chain that'a keep it locked hot cocked, the villain never been so appealing i do this, ock no joker, you wanna heathe ledge, don't push it, ock 'cause it will be a dark night if i decide you got it never was about the money, it's the message i brought which is everything burn sucka i son you, you yell gimme, i say earn sucka i'm in a scarlet and red fit, black kicks dealing with niggas who really think i ain't bout this j flip... niggas gon' be thinking they that sick flow gutter, the day you find another, wayne using rubbers i got to keep striving, this race is all pride some don't live to see you win, they live to see you die so play possum, to the untrained eye and then you make your move like.. how bout alive the bad guy HOOK you cant get close to me that's reserved for those who showed to me they know what that's supposed to be i got a globe to see i can't take everybody but i'll be back and tell them all what they should go and see the sarcastic asshole posted on the back wall my bad yall, that's just the joe in me i'm probably not everything that i'm supposed to be but i hope my flow and poetry will show what i am told to be and hopefully we can still see eye to eye even if we dont agree and hopefully these suckas will stop approaching me ask who i think the coldest is and suprise in your eyes when i told you it's me to bear this load aint free, i'm broke for me don't suppose i hold loads of dough for we drinks are cold, from what i'm told, i relate emotionally man, i hope they still know it's me HOOK

HOOK put those sweat pants on, take that make up off and go grab one of my t-shirts you know it turns me on when your cool comes off go grab one of my t-shirts take that cool off a mask makes you hot, got to make that cool off it's stuck? fuck it, break that cool off you know, late night smooth talk i've met the facade, now let's me and you talk that who are you talk, that see right through talk .. bought a coupe take the roof off things that bring false esteem, i don't care they're much more appealing when they're things you dont wear like, what's this make up making up for why don't you tell me what you like waking up for why don't you tell me what you like taking up for too real? not fake enough for? don't hide, stay apparent to me i won't tell you no lies, so don't wear them for me HOOK she said it's been a while, what you don't know how to pick up your phone? boy don't you dare treat me like i'm just a girl that you bone and this type of shit gon' go on and on until you learn to respect me, leave me alone and this that all and all, that love and basketball, quincy mccall i did her foul, ref where's the call she keep bawling, i don't see a ball i play hella games when it comes to her yeah these other broads get the poker face, she so sure oh you dapping up your homies, yeah you told them nigga but did you tell them that you had to fake that to get with her did you tell them that you told me you love me, nigga did you tell them that you tried to holla at my sister it's all good, i done cried me a river but i tell her otherwise to make her reconsider when you say HOOK

I'm sitting in this parking lot right now writing this Parked in the corner, I didn't want to shed any light on this Darkness is the appropriate backdrop for this enlightenment I put my trust is put into what this might bring, I'm fighting with that Might shit, with all my might, all my life is built on this crisis How did it get like this I would never turn my back on you. Unless we got close to the wall, and I would turn, put my feet up to kick us back into Doing whatever it is we would have to do We have to move, so that we'll do And use this music as something to put our past into I have this king midas vision, I need my living to match it too Get this position I make decisions you can't fathom do you imagine these clean lines I image don't get graphic Through the bullshit and tragic endings And I don't know everything I need, but the world may That's me asking, really, how much can the world weigh. it weighs on my family, it weighs on my friends Its probably selfish to think I can take the weight off of them But I take off, I take no days off Cause the day it pays off will be the day they say he made off with him Word is born, my plan B for sure: dead You don't know how good it feels as these words are said I bite my girl so she can feel something real or something like that She said fuck you, that hurts I said why the fuck won't you bite back I got fire in my heart, I got passion in my eyes They ask why you live this hard For super heroes like me... it's harder to die

good lord, good lord good lord a diss record never hurt me much so throw a shot, i throw machine gun rounds back the doc gon' have your ass laced up my nigga, who want what fake niggas act accordingly, and bitches wanna rapport with me because of what i'm recording, see homie gon' ask me, j.al you feeling lonely? but i don't speak of such you been here from the start, i figure i owe you that much the only one i trust my one and only crutch so if i'm broke they gon' hate, hate hate if you heal me up, hate if you will me up tell me i should want more, cause tears from my struggle only give us a puddle to run through and might even slow us down even more i tell them what i live, homie, you tell them what you saw i've seen it all along way before they would applaud, way before they would go aww before our endeavors became reality in all i bow my head and say good lord HOOK crash course on what to ask for good lord, good lord now where the grass is much greener, i get purple heart treatment the hate match the grass in demeanor i blew them away, my shoes of suede was much cleaner they blue in the face trying to say what ain't speakered sounding like infants from your yellow bellied distance you cant make me red from what you said in my world, the golden rule still fits in you smudge this world of importance, you get blacked out from existence it started with a dollar and a dream i still got one of those, man, it's harder than it seems my mind is an unprocessed diamond, act smarter stop trying to barter zirconias that gleam rocking with the coldest, my statements the boldest, humble but not modest nothing's hopeless, the records books are just paper, i'm the twelfth time folded HOOK