Woo
Haha
Look, I'll take an authentic life
Over a record deal any day (real life)
You living boxed in your mind, can't get away and you in a daze (yuh)
I know what it's like in the cage,
Just sedated, you've been enslaved (chained up)
I can identify with the chase, desire to get the cake
You ain't designing a different way
You just align with society's picture frame
I am defiant and trying to get in the gate
You not a lion, just trying to instigate
Death to my horrific wicked ways
Set the record straight, and submit to fate
Everybody's gotta innovate
And wonder why they lost but then resist the faith, man
When I first studied the game
I was in love with the fame
I was in love with the power of vocal
To sway the emotion to try and persuade
I'm doing shows, I am on stage
I'm getting noticed like I always craved
Back in my mind I'm trying to fake it and
Fearin' the fact I'ma lead 'em astray, ayy
I'll take an authentic life over a record deal any day (real life)
You living boxed in your mind, can't get away and you in a daze (yuh)
I know what it's like in the cage,
Just sedated, you've been enslaved (chained up)
I can identify with the chase, desire to get the cake
I ain't the kind to just sit and wait
Trying to buy me some time before I situate
But usually I just get in the way
So I just had to adapt to a different way
And used to be I had to get the praise
Always had to be within the thick of things
Like I'm Mr. King, but that finna change
Getting humbled homie, I don't miss a thing
I'm in a different zone
Don't wanna get comfortable in it though
It's despicable,
If I act hypocritical and I don't really live it though
I'm predictable,
When I'm spitting this written bro, I do it with a blistering throat
'Till I'm sick and old,
In the shivering cold, just to give 'em hope (woah)
I'll take an authentic life over a record deal any day (real life)
You living boxed in your mind, can't get away and you in a daze (yuh)
I know what it's like in the cage,
Just sedated, you've been enslaved (chained up)
I can identify with the chase, desire to get the cake
I was speeding on that highway doing seventy miles
Screaming, "I'ma live life my way, ain't not gettin' me down"
Blacked out,
Probably shouldn't even left the driveway, should've died mane
'Cause you know I wasn't on no heavenly route
But look at how be protecting me, wow
I ain't gon' question it now
I stay confessin' the vow
I learned my lesson through trial
I went to war with my dad, remembered the power
Yeah I remember the signs, at least at the end of the times
Back to my pride, back to my legacy
Was it a legacy if I was left with regrets when I died?
Ayy, nah
I'll take an authentic life over a record deal any day (real life)
You living boxed in your mind, can't get away and you in a daze (yuh)
I know what it's like in the cage,
Just sedated, you've been enslaved (chained up)
I can identify with the with the chase, desire to get the cake