[Hook: The Boy Illinois] And they ask why you so conscious you can tell it's in your content I ain't know being unconscious was cool But for some reason we don't follow no rules I'm positively smooth X2 [Verse 1: The Boy Illinois] Who yall kidding yall can't school us Just left the house but we say we bout to pull up Tryna buy time like Will Salas But this ain't' no movie we a let the real have it I was put on game by a carpenter and waitress Thats back when ma f**as was hitting bank licks When to Roseland for what I wore to the banquet I was suited up nowadays I'm on the same sh** What my poppa told me when I was young just ain't stick Until I seen all the good guys become dangerous And that's why we saying f** the cops Idealistically it's smart but they don't do they jobs [Hook] [Bridge: The Boy Illinois] Get it right you talking to a scholar Do it to the 'T' every time I do it proper That's why I own sh** don't believe in the dolla Cause we tryna go gold my favorite playa Ibaka
We block shots when you try to send 'em at us Cause I'm too smoother for that sh** Not to mention I had on Stan Smith's A GQ revolutionary sequels never necessary [Verse 2: The Boy Illinois] Always had a cold flow Lake Michi' lake frigid Patience a b**h ain't it? Or is it Live it up and chase a dream 'till I see a mortician And, fashion is the only time we talk four fitting Common sense our religion And if you don't get it then you probably won't get it The weak seem to fold whenever they faced with it They told me to preach but not like Ma$e did it So this how I did it, I say I'm a martyr in my Marc by Marc And a capitalist in Comme De Garcons A Socialist in some sh** I can't pronounce Big bank take little bank like the Rothchilds And I'm pro black in these f**ing cross colors And we bear arms don't you dare cross cutler We don't care f** everything you idolize We came to rob the spot, I mean colonize [Hook] [Bridge]