Lately, I've been getting back to my common sense
Made some changes now my knowledge ain't been common since
The way they look at me, sum me up into cockiness
When they don't see past the screens they hypnotize em wit
Dealing with the consequences of my confidence
I'm done searching for validation, acknowledgments
Strategizing and building on what I had achieved
Reconsidering everything I used to believe
All these comments and likes boosting our self-esteem
That instant gratification is poisoning our dreams
Social media pulling the plug on real-time I
I'm just trying to stay above when it flat lines
I took a break but I still ball when I need to try
Still questioning the world, still asking why
Still cross you with the answer like I'm AI
And nowadays, we hella conscious like AI
But what these moves really do with all the vanity
Behind all the glamour and shine it's still humanity
It's back to the basics living life inside a matrix
Get this fuckin money then watch em all try to take it
Like a coy in a pond
Waiting on food from a palm turn queen powers into a pawn
Castle quick boy it's checkmate
Waiting on my lines like it's fresh bait
Kids turn me up to escape
I escaped the cold clutches of anxiety
Open wounds of sobriety
Standards of our society
Negative notoriety
And I'm just drawing lines to the things that me different
Knowing that all the success won't come in an instant
But it could come any minute
My thoughts a million a minute
Any civilian critic would never get it
Look, I just know that this is all gonna come together
So let me breathe, I could probably flow forever
Sittin here thinking bout what I'm supposed to say
A sea of thoughts and my words seem to all drift away
Late nights in the lab, watching my youth pass
Clocks runnin' and its hands hold all of my past
All my loved ones see I'm an addicted fiend
The sacrifice and the selfishness of my lonely dream
I hear them calling me telling me to just slow it down
But every time I get a taste, I'm back to the sound
Back to it, my rap fluent, I knew had it
The 13-year-old me would have never imagined
All the shit I been through I've been reading signs
Turned this pipe dream livin into a pipeline
Look I'm with the pressure on my back I've risen over these obstacles
Heatin up the planet like this pen is burning fossil fuel
Volatile resetting life back to the merry start