Streetsounds

Follow greatness, but never put the knee down
Shoot sky high, just remember how the street sounds
Look a little further if the sign says 'keep out'
And keep an ear to the ground, please now
Follow greatness, but never put the knee down
Shoot sky high, just remember how the street sounds
You got your head in the clouds, it takes a beatdown
To keep an ear to the ground (street sounds)

Now on this one, when I come in Imma kick it a minute then spit at a rhythm this intricate
Til I get in it a little bit, then I'll go switch it but while I go black widow, rattlesnake, venomous
Then imma build up ridiculous tension with limitless syllable sentences
In a real menacing tentative temperament, okay
I'll dial it down a bit, isn't time to show out and shit
No place to go rounds in, but with haste I know now if
I don't denote a taste of the whole loadout
It means I'm codenamed a flow holdout
Thats no doubt the worst could be claimed
Cause the work I affix on the page in these purposeful stains, as the glyphs get dispersed
Is akin to the person with two sticks who first learned that the friction would get them to burst into flame
It's a curse and a gift and a shameful debt
That I'll pay if my wits' end is vain on attempt
And I'd lay in a tent as content as penthouses
Either way I keep it in my head pounded, to

Never put the knee down
Shoot sky high, just remember how the street sounds
Look a little further if the sign says 'keep out'
And keep an ear to the ground, please now
Follow greatness, but never put the knee down
Shoot sky high, just remember how the street sounds
You got your head in the clouds, it takes a beatdown
To keep an ear to the ground (street sounds)

Bet to be led of you're fed indiscretion
And definite if we forget admiring our legends
Is not the same as trying to impress them
Especially if they've been dead men, or you've never even met them
Maybe that's more evidence for me being a pessimist
I've never been the follower, the worshipper who's bred enlisted
Yes it is, I've festered in and reveled in my skepticism
Yes as well, I've failed to fall for any veil for despotism
Please now, you'll never see me bow 'less the laces on the sneaks out
No matter alma mater, my response is on the peace out setting
That's no politisism, don't go twisting what I speak now, betting
Y'all are over the ropes, it's no wonder that you ring out, reroute
Let me get these talking heads walk into the center on this readout
You know I'm playing, but end the clip like that and now it's threats I'm saying, its manipulation

Follow greatness, but never put the knee down
Shoot sky high, just remember how the street sounds
Look a little further if the sign says 'keep out'
And keep an ear to the ground, please now
Follow greatness, but never put the knee down
Shoot sky high, just remember how the street sounds
You got your head in the clouds, it takes a beatdown
To keep an ear to the ground (street sounds)