Tunnel vision on a guap stack Malt liquor perspirating through the brown sack Big talk looking thinner when it's combat Swear that shit is astounding I ain't stupid with cash either, I grew up around it They overheard he shoot nice so they knew to surround him Eating shit like he's Shoenice like the booth had a bounty I'ma kill it, it's Early like a school night I'm the realest that you know, my bruised soul In the middle of group home in the locks Threw the times I spent off in group homes in a box I been grown boy And cool coals you spitting just ain't hot, this fire and brimstone You guys should've went home when you could've Took the title, raising bars of what's supposed to be good up His shirt drenched, they wet his rosary wood up And who you 'posed to be, sugar? Don't get close to me My heart cold like the fucking carrots in the grocery store And in the morning no Folgers, just 'dro I told my momma that I'm on my way home I know my grandma watching over my soul On some other shit... Spent nights off the downers at my desk Did time in the tower off the spliffs I'm not like the cowards on the fence I'm not like I'm lounging on the bench Get up out and get your shit Find some power in yourself or in this shit Listen, my niggas spit All day give 'em what live niggas require My state give up the prize cause I'ma find it Anyway boy we riding Trying to sneak the cake up out the motherfucking bakery quiet Dodge and evade all the fire Watch what you saying to sire Stay out my face and my wallet Move state to state for the profit Said that on Sunday, you peeped it A tiny list of my peoples I see 'em all as my equal So the difference between us is a just a pimp and a preacher I'm running quick from my demons I crush the spliff with my sneaker You know the difference between us These niggas fraud you could see it, all of them out of their feelings I know my heart so I speak it I love the squad so I lead it Eyes wide open, I'm sleepy I'm on the highway, I'm weaving in and out of my lanes I call mom say, that I was all the power I needed She say she glad I'm called she just can't believe it I'm gone

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Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE build something bigger than a collaboration

There’s been plenty of crossover between Earl Sweatshirt and MIKE over the years, but ‘POMPEII // UTILITY’ is where it all clicks into place. Built with SURF GANG and stretched across a double album, it captures two artists doing exactly what they want, exactly how they want to do it.

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