Long Game Outro

[Verse]

Jalen Brunson with the left hand

Dudes only poppin' online, but you know tech jams

That ain't your gang, they just want your green, Jets fans

Queens keep my name in they mouth like they Mets fans

Yeah, I ain't impressed, man

Labels pluckin' artists off TikTok like it's Petland, discount

You picked the wrong pony, need to dismount

I just roll my eyes whenever they put them lists out

Y'all keep sayin' it's for the culture you don't really give a shit 'bout

Y'all put it on the story, I put it in the music

So who's tellin' a story? And who really an artist?

This some shit you gotta live out

Y'all dudes try to play for real and take the risk out

That ain't for rеal then

That ain't for real, yeah

Blеssed, but I earned it, the checks is concurrent

I care less what is current, which direction the current is

Currently been switchin' currency, was out in Europe

We just saw the faces of the people grew up 'cross the world from me who say the good word touched 'em

I ain't talkin' Catholic priests

I speak to real people, I don't need no plastic sheep

They come to me for art, they come to me for pain

And they come to you for a caption, sheesh

They come to you for cappin' speech or caps in speech

But your arms too short to actually reach

We just let the actions speak, yeah

That ain't well-crafted, me, I'm playin' the long game

I'm tryna ascertain somethin' that's beyond fame

You tryna entertain, but even when you entertain

Trust me, it's an endless game if only tryna win's the aim

Everything performative, everyone a celebrity of their own universe

Everything pejorative, sympathy, outpourin' it

Can't be empathy or this level of indulgence'd be too much to bear

March to my own drum, but hear too much to snare

I need to embrace the kick in my heartbeat

The rhythm of life, the wick of the wax, where my art speak

So I'ma keep playin' the long game, yeah

The long game

Until I am where I belong, man, yeah

'Cause it's a long game