Who's the Greatest?

[Intro: Ché Noir]

Uh

Yeah

Nigga

Yeah, uh

Uh, look

[Verse 1: Ché Noir]

I built a catalog of classics from spittin' pain

And built a portfolio full of assets I liquidate, yeah

I got investments and shit that pay me in stock options

In ten years, bank accounts look like a box office

Yeah, uh, I gained a splurgin' salary

Eatin' food for thought is a jewel when you burnin' calories

The price of freedom and fame, money, it capture me

The dream of makin' it became better than the reality

Greatness is defined by the people that you involve

But it's hard to carry when most of 'em don't еvolve

Rappers don't impress mе 'cause most of 'em look desperate

Stayed on my toes so long, gave niggas a foot fetish

Greatness is defined by your influence that's left

Success like an elevator, I was usin' the steps

I'm like the hip-hop's eye doctor

I paint visions for the blind with my words like an acuity test

Success a lonely road, you'll see the proof when you finish

Can't have it, you ain't willing to lose something to get it

Yeah, weight of the world on my shoulders left me with thick veins

Buried underneath is the Buffalo roots of Rick James

It's all hunger, I'm givin' specials on free food

Bars come in cups, but the wisdom measured in teaspoons

I don't bite the bullet, I reload clips

My vacations is sightseeing off of ego trips, let's go

[Chorus: Ché Noir]

Watch the paddywagons on the block, on the block

From the bottom, so our only mission was the top, was the top

It's been low this year, our biggest villain was a clock, was a clock

Even if I fell, my nigga, I could never stop, I'll forever be the

Illest, illest, greatest, I'll forever be the

Illest, illest, greatest, I'll forever be the

Illest, illest, greatest, I'll forever be the

Illest, illest, greatest, I'll forever be the

[Verse 2: eLZhi]

What I become

Ill is decidin' to dodge death when the casket fall

Scholarships are for basketball skill

For an ex-gang member the street raised

Back in his empty your pockets, take them Jordans off your feet days

The greatest is a father helping a son create his

Own slice of heaven and hell

At eleven and twelve, he decides what his fate is

The illest or realest, educatin' those still misinformed on who's behind combined companies tryna kill us

The greatest walk miles that determines the size of his shoe worn

Running back in the burning unit to save a newborn

Are you torn between who's the illest or greatest?

When it's my time, I can pause it, get ahead of it and make you feel this for ages

The illest is doctors who kill illnesses with herbs that disturb the pharmacists in the 'burbs

The greatest is Ali, Biggie poppin' bottles in VIP or Queen Latifah writin' U-N-I-T-Y

Because the murder rate was up, how you regurgitate

A piece of the pie you thought you deserved when they didn't serve a plate

The greatest buy us turkeys on Thanksgiving

School supplies is a cool surprise for teachers with students that met a cruel demise

The greatest don't abandon they daughters

In fact, the act left a few scorned that striptease and do porn

Are you torn between who's the greatest or illest?

In and out of state, it's the realest, heavyweight, sends a freightful to deal it

[Outro]

Our Black folk, we got Black folk, you know, Black folk, we gotta get, we gotta get stronger, though, you know?

We got to be tight, we gotta quit askin' people to give us somethin'

Keep lookin' for shit

Keep askin' motherfuckers to march for us

We gotta take care our fuckin' own

I'm tellin' it like it is 'cause I had a dream