Levitate (Like Magic)

VERSE ONE
I grew up the inner-city, surrounded by bad boys, nothin' like Diddy
Where dudes would punch a stranger in his face for something shitty
Like getting dropped in front of your friends from a girl that’s pretty
All because she wanna date a dude considered much more gritty
Where jokers step to you to stab you cos they hate your brother
All because he's dating some chick that they failed to make they lover
Where two friends as teenagers got each others back
Fast-forward, now one is supplying the other with crack
Where children kicked out of the class because they didn't listen
Fucked they education to become a guest inside a prison
Where beautiful chicks with infinite prospects
Tagged themselves to a loser like inanimate objects, yo’
I was surrounded by this bullshit all day, everyday
But didn't stop me doing shit ...Lemons? fuck it, Lemonade
Cos I understood that my decisions were forever made
By the brilliance that I was given just to levitate

CHORUS
Like magic
Levitate (scratch)
(yo), like magic
Levitate (scratch)
Like magic
Levitate (scratch)
(yo), like magic
I don't stop (scratch)

VERSE TWO
I came up in a time of street altercations, dudes fighting chicks
Prepared to beat a brother with a loose wall brick
Bust his eye, put him hospital, got my tooth chipped
Where chicks caught reputations as a scandalous bitch
Forgot to mention, two days suspension, no intervention
Teachers could fuck around and give the wrong kid a detention
So this student put a bag over the teacher's head
Beat him with a metal pipe then went home
Left him for dead, crazy fucka
I'm from a place where the olders sent you out there
To steal a sports jersey, but I tell em' no without fear
Without apprehension, hesitation or reluctances
Weed smoke and pill popping led to other substances
No trust funds, no imperial materials
The only silver spoon I had was sugar on my cereal yo'
I was surrounded by this all day everyday
But I put my head to something bigger so I'd levitate

CHORUS

BREAKDOWN
Scratching (breakdown)

VERSE THREE
I’m raised up from a place where rappers wanna fight you
For being frightfully nice
For every time you made a beat and grabbed the mic
When they pull you in the corner, tell you change your name
Cos there’s another DL on the DL and you doused his flame
"oh I'm sorry"
I’m just trying to make it out the hood just like the rest of them
Took a bunch of beats and now I'm verbally molesting them
You can call this a walk in the park like a pedestrian
So I'mma live it like the man I am and fuck your estrogen
I'm here to be the best of them, I guess I’ll be a pest again
Until my life's a testament to every living specimen
And yet again just when they thought I wouldn't pass the test again
I gathered with my tribe and so I guess I'm on a quest again
Autonomous prominence, I am synonymous with dominance
I'm never doing nothing with incompetence
Cos we surrounded by it all day every day
And that's a good enough reason for us to wanna levitate

CHORUS

BREAKDOWN