Had to be me Not a clone or a digibot Sun cycled weather patterns Premrock the equinox It had to be me Down by ... A thin line between art and war, the ... And the crowds that perform on the battlefield ... But still ready for cheers Where everyone knows your name And the only thing that's consistently constant was the change Play the game off the hinges and frames Mcloud in the crowd What now? Only one will remain Transcending the blame Cause if there's one in the same The energy never leaves, it just freezes the frame ... My sneeze is the flame And when I'm sick in my way, every beat is amazed And when I sing to myself, I find my sense in a cell When I dwell Living like a beast in a cage Had to be me Within the beat, reppin the street, blessin his speech (Y'all know me) Had to be me That was born after thirty-six weeks (Pleased to meet me) Had to be me In the stands with the fans drop the heat (Y'all know me) Had to be me Twenty five eight always on my grind no sleep (We be reppin this sh** since day one) So on a low, I'm most deep when I raise The level of the cut (What?) Cause it's peace bein raised Unless it's beat bein braised And I'm chief in the haze ... I can see why most of yall are callin Khan, I hope the folks are callin on I got the mind and focus of Travolta in phenomenon I even up the odds between the commoners and comodans My teeth are f**ed so we don't need a closeup of the monologue I'm as live as a .., sh** I could dive in the lava Naked is naked but, say that's my kinda sauna You rhyme like a ..., but got the... Just cause your on a dick don't mean you got the mind of a rider See, now my feet are restin on the neck of the skeptics Testin my ethics to adhere to the acceptable methods Yeah, I want hugs and kisses I want somethin vicious .. question get.. except what they're left with I'm not a reasonable god I'll crush the peas in your pod While they pleadin I'm like "Please, I ain't squeezin that hard!" If you find a silver lining then you've seen a mirage Cause what goes around tokes you out and leaves you to rot Had to be me Within the beat, reppin the street, blessin his speech (Y'all know me) Had to be me That was born after thirty-six weeks (Pleased to meet me) Had to be me In the stands with the fans drop the heat (Y'all know me) Had to be me Twenty five eight always on my grind no sleep (We be reppin this sh** since day one) Had to be prem, that crem de la crem That's bent off that crem demend and Jim blended whisky bender again Prone to offend these gender bendin women and men Tryin to contend their prepubescent phlegm Can't react oppression never developed the gems My pen is unrelentin fight attempts to do a dental expense My shine with make the eye on the pyramid blink Vaginas flow the same I think your period sink That hand in the ink, I'm doctorin the flows Why you posturing? It shows your not a flow nobody cares what you think My spit game is razor blade, tailor made for 808s I double the appraisal of a label once they say my name The trouble I will save you Just rearrange the names son stage Cause we don't rap the same, go get a facial son is acting vain Pre-packaged plastic wrappin actors not attractin fame Screamin at your dame tryin to rearrange her mattress sprains PremRock will acclimate accelerate and activate Grabbin dollars off the backboard then hand him back his change Saying ... and my reaction "Eh, that's a shame" Reality distorted you hallucinatin accolades ..., son we don't need that These bad .. thug talkin suited ... ... Elbow the free-throw ... Stand around like pizza dough Different town, freak the show Already off runnin once I hit it like I'm... Had to be that blown speaker, preacher keep the even flow I'm approaching every stage like 'Listen, yall don't even know"