AUTHENTIC

[VERSE 1: ERICK]

Welcome now to the 2020
I know all y'all been patient, waiting
Probably been debating whether I've been dead
Or maybe the fact that: Maybe he's lazy?

Well, yes I'm dead, but I'm resurrecting
And to call me lazy, that's just crazy
I've been working harder then a lunch lady
Making sure y'all get your pizza heavy

I'm the mastermind working 9 to 5
Making sure that every single rhyme I rhyme
Is characterized with a plot in mind
If it's not then I restabilize

Come to think of it, probably reason why
I take so long just to write a line
So from now on out I'mma take my time
Either way I'm still gunna get scrutinized

[HOOK: ERICK]

"If you hold on to the past, that won't ever let you go
Do it for the dreamers and the one that no one knows
Everybody wants me to be like them so I won't
It's good to win the world but never lose your soul."

[VERSE 2: ERICK]

I know that people want me to rap a certain way
They want me to sound like everybody else in the game
Now if I were to do that I'd have to change my whole name
Authentic to masquerade
But I won't, so I debate...

Should I murder the beat or the alphabet
Cause the way that I came in the game was by indepent
I'mma stay that way til the end of the days
Beat the beat with the snare and bass...

...or whatever my vocals say

Like them computer days when I take my AIM
Like a shooting range and they won't be saved

[HOOK 2X: ERICK]

"If you hold on to the past, that won't ever let you go
Do it for the dreamers and the one that no one knows
Everybody wants me to be like them so I won't
It's good to win the world but never lose your soul."

"If you hold on to the past, that won't ever let you go
Do it for the dreamers and the one that no one knows
Everybody wants me to be like them so I won't
It's good to win the world but never lose your soul."

[VERSE 3: ERICK]

A lyricist who's experienced
In throwing bombs like a Syrian
Yet don't take that so serious
So consumed in the lyrics he
Doesn't even know what year it is
If he did he'd probably be asking Siri
Like, "Siri! What year is it?!"

Yeah, put me in the box
Put me in a box, I'll pop it's top
I'm the product of going down but coming up
G.O.A.T.S. around me, guess I learned a lot
In my masterclass, slept right through it, yet I still passed
Go back, I just rapped some nonsense hidden messages up all around it
Bye hiatus! I'm glad you waited
I'm about to give you things that were never planned
Some things will change others things will stand
Like I'm trying to rap a little bit slower but I just can't, I just can't
Alright I can, but don't want man!

[PRE-HOOK: ERICK]

I know that people want me to rap a certain way
They want me to sound like everybody else in the game
Now if I were to do that I'd have to change my whole name
Authentic to masquerade
But I won't, so I debate...

[HOOK 3X: ERICK]

"If you hold on to the past, that won't ever let you go
Do it for the dreamers and the one that no one knows
Everybody wants me to be like them so I won't
It's good to win the world but never lose your soul."

"If you hold on to the past, that won't ever let you go
Do it for the dreamers and the one that no one knows
Everybody wants me to be like them so I won't
It's good to win the world but never lose your soul."

"If you hold on to the past, that won't ever let you go
Do it for the dreamers and the one that no one knows
Everybody wants me to be like them so I won't
It's good to win the world but never lose your soul."

[ENDING: ERICK]

We're back

Yeah

AUTHENTIC!