sometimes i press my palm onto my chest to make sure i m alive sometimes i slam on the brakes before i find the drive got a soapbox to stand on a torch to hand on flyin high but we ain t got no runway to land on i see these cats flossing in their sean john suits it s like they don t give a fuck if their mic s on mute i see the violence the girls the diamonds the pearls but the only thing forever is the rhyming these words can i make it the game without being greedy can i get the love that i want without being needy in every two second line i fit fifteen words that s two hundred forty truths for every sixteen verse i made a wish to be rich on each hi ho but knowing is half the battle for each gi joe yo our parents didn t consider this music maybe it s cuz we never figured out how to use it when i m out and down i crank the volume loud cuz i ve been waiting for so long to sing it out lalalalaloud lalalalaloud lalalalaloud it s like i m losing i m mind and that ain t good for my sanity they told me life ain t fair and that ain t good for my vanity trying to get to the ends but i can t find the means trying to sew up the world because it s not what it seems it s just me johnny walker black and lamont dozier i m drunk off the music and i don t wanna be sober i know that anni s starting to sound like a downer but every year my birth certificate gets browner it s harder to give up so i keep going it s difficult to shut up so i keep flowing it s impossible to lay down so i keep fighting sick of all the barking so i keep biting they re trying to close me down but i won t pack up i m like porn site man i pop back up it seems like hip hop dies a little each day rappers don t have to sing but i mma do it anyway when i m out and down i crank the volume loud cuz i ve been waiting for so long to sing it out lalalalaloud lalalalaloud lalalalaloud i m gonna do it now i m gonna do it now before my time runs out i ve gotta let it out i ve gotta sing it loud they say to listen to your heart that s why i speak to the beat trying to find my direction like never eat shredded wheat i know it s a material world but i don t like the texture i guess i could go on and on but i don t like to lecture tell me what s the point when it might go right through ya so i mma stop talking shit and let this music do ya cause when i think about high school i pop in thewu when i hear al green i think of my ex boo can t listen to kanye without seeing cancun when i play that pac song and think of my mom too and stevie nicks reminds me of the woman i love and stevie wonder makes me think of heaven above listen this track s sounding like an oprah show anni usually likes to take a less hopeful note yeah i wanna say that hip hop is poised to die but sometimes i should shut up and just enjoy the ride when i m out and down i put the volume loud i ve been waiting for so long to sing it out lalalalaloud lalalalaloud lalalalaloud i m gonna do it now i m gonna do it now before my time runs out i ve gotta let it out i ve gotta sing it loud