Dostoyevsky

[Verse 1: Black Thought]

Yeah, the universe let the planets align

Spent 10k and the card didn't decline

Bartender, one Casamigos and lime

I'm celebrating gracefully, getting better with time

I ain't even halfway through this incredible ride

But like, I'm kind of doing an incredible job

When I was 18 living beyond my means

I was afraid of my dreams, looking at the finer things

Wishing I could l flip to a microchip from a paper clip

Upgrade to a spaceship from a basic whip

Cash Rules Everything, I just wanted a taste of it

Fast food hurrying, saving time, not wasting it

Self-saboteur, speaking it to my paramour

Torch rappers like I'm igniting the aerosol

Maintaining the wherewithal that embarrass y'all

Game-changer, the way I shredded your cabbage off

Explaining is changing apples to applesauce

When we were young, innocence was ours, but that was lost

Where I reside is the dark side of the glory

The fury I manipulate is the arc of the story

Written without a ghostwriter to author it for me

This is Crime and Punishment, I'm the judge and the jury

Listen, Dostoyevsky

[Verse 2: Rapsody]

I swam with crocs, fished with sharks

May never pop charts, but I know I'm popular

I was built to run the game, I came up playing guard

With young niggas between 5'5" and 6 foot 4

I banked over both, tryna bank over some more

And ball out in something gorgeous that'll keep me in court

Where they'll judge like y'all does, y'all don't know me enough

Y'all still owe us for what all y'all did to the Cold Crush

To my donuts, I'm shooting J Dillas and what

I wanna cop when I get loot and recoup

I had to go through hella doors so in short that's why I only want two

But I ain't got Jay number, I CC 'em the proof

'Cause everything I pictured in my head has always come true

They say you need vision to see eye to eye with the Druids

Spent 25 hundred on sheep skin, let it seep in

I ain't turn starboy in a weekend

It took more like 7 years, make a sane man drink Everclear

It ain't ever clear if we ever guaranteed a year

Fruits of your labor, huh, you work hard to get it

Jamla stitched on the motherfucking ROC fitted

Before the big lights it had to start with the scrimmage

Know that it'd come sooner or later, I'm Trae Young, nigga

Huh, I'm Trae Young, nigga

[Verse 3: Black Thought]

Uh, I said Dostoyevsky meets Joe Pesci

Tired of staring at a glass half empty

Turning me from Dr. Sebi to cocking semi

It got me clutching my machete from the Serengeti already

Wild Styles and Fab Five Freddy

I'm a stranger in Moscow, don't ask how deadly is the ummah

Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah

To the Tripoli shores from the halls of Montezuma

Stop intruder, I'm built on facts, I'm not your rumor

A malignant tumor, slid through in a suede Puma

The steady heavy legendary, all praise is overdue

Same cloth as the chosen few, rap Noble Drew

I guarantee you know more music by the suckers

It's not a victimless crime if anybody suffers

In a system that was designed for them to try to cuff us

Well, what's the use of 'em trying when can't nobody touch us?

Unless it's fabricated, probably drug related

But love or hate it, I will not be subjugated

When they screamin' “You the greatest that did it,” what's underrated?

As if every other player who spit it was unrelated

If every man's a temple, the circumstance is simple

So to be transcendental, I do enhance the mental

This is elder statesmen conversation

Take a look into them books from down in the basement, yeah