On the Marquee

[Intro]

Statik Selektah on the beat

Let's go!

[Verse: Jet 2]

I won't stop 'til I'm on the Marquee like

Dorsey lights

In the front of the school by the green light

On Farmdale, and my arms held

High like champion in boxing ring

I can't sing, but I stop to sing like, "haaah"

You'll be successful mocking me

And maybe you can be a king like Rodney

Or queen like Elizabeth on a balcony

And to talk of my DDP niggas

I push 'em to the top like balcony

You could balcony me

I see life from a distance like binoculars see

And I transform mines like Optimus P

So just stall me out

For optimum performance, you must recall

Everything I record

And no I ain't the best, I just love all of y'all

So thank you, thank you, thank you

Y'all dеserve an applause

I camе from the bottom of the bottom to decide

That the bottom was all the way at the top of the walls

If you follow me close, you might grow; get taller

You might slip up and get lost in them walls

While they was playin' positions, I was playin' my defense

And I stayed in the game until they threw an interception

And I caught it, ran it back, ran into an intersection

And got parallel with those who were against him

Back on defenses, now they're all defenseless

And I'm on the fence, but with me is where my friends is

Used to be chillin' at the crib, now cities are different

And all them different cities is where all of my friends is

For instance

I love every single individual that took the time to listen

Came from the dirt, worked hard until I glistened

With no ice on my tea like Lipton

But only a Springfield like the Simpsons

I'm in a land where I live with no vengeance

Only love for one another in defense against hatred

Stick to that, and we all gon' make it

Come together and we will never break, ain't that crazy glue?

Puzzles me, it amazes you

I live in a land where imagination takes me through

Just so I can pave the way for you

And I love everybody that I do this for

We keep it movin'; even if we movin' slow

We movin'

I didn't stutter like Ruben, so

I'ma shine like the sun; uno momento

And I got love for all of you kinfolk

'Cause I be thinkin' on the run like two temples

And I'm morally meditated, I'm thoroughly educated

I'm orally emulated, rhetorically decorated

I'm so that boy that came from nothin' to somethin'

They said, "you ain't shit," so I had to plunge it

Now I'm standin' on top of a summit with a lil' somethin'

Words bumpin'

Lyrically, I'm holdin' down my city, and see shit

My whole city's full of lyricist'

Just think of me as their assistant

I am a lyrical therapist

Jay taught me to switch the flow; I'm just tryin' shit

And now, I'm on the Marquee like hypertext

And I be jumpin' 'fore I rap, I be hyper and shit

They don't feel them other rappers like Vicodin pills

I'm micin' the skills that I never write, but I feel

I'm writin' while I record it, red light it for real

I'm paintin' vivid pictures, 'cause my vision is vivid

Jet 2, I'm only second when I'm livin' in minutes, uh

Feelin' like I'm walkin' through a chemistry lab

I smile, 'cause it's always harder to pretend to be sad

In that case, there is no reason to be mad

I tell her, "throw it in the bag," 'cause I got Glad

I been through a whole lot, but in the end we all make it

Brighter for our children; there's a brighter day, kid

So I treat every single night with daycare

And hope for the best until they hear

And so I treat every night with daycare

And hope for the best until they're here

I said, I treat every night with daycare

And hope for the best until they hear me speakin'

2, Jet 2