By Any Means

[Verse 1: Skyzoo]

By any means, my enemy is in plenty reach

So if the need is get 'em leant to get a lead

Then shit'll lean, like literally, hit 'em clean

Until they clean off the mirror, like "shit is me"

And then I'm trying to regroup thoughts

All these plans I was making to get me moved off

And didn't know it, right

Now that I know it right

I'm ducking cameras on the corner trying to blow the lights

Blowing lights, car covered in scars, cutting the smog

And the smoke screens under the stars, what a facade

When the smoke seems up and beyond I bust a U-ey

I'm Old School, all of my slang is that truly

Pardon me if I'm different

Part of me's reminiscing

And part of me's 20/20

So part of me wouldn't miss it

Part of me's Montclair and part is Nautica sweats

Part of me's by the stairs, and part of me's on a jet

But all of me's the embodiment of a Yankee fitted

The only one who was riding up with a Yankee in it

Fuck it though, chalk it up to the rap

Nobody introduced me to Nia so now I'm back

Like, can it all be so simple now? Can it be?

When everyone that you a fan of is a fan of me?

I use that to try to see what just this fandom be

And if it don't go as planned, then I just plan to leave

Leave before it turns and they swear it didn't

By any means you saw the difference

Raised as a witness like Jill Scott and the Jacksons

But born the day before Christmas oh shit I'm probably backwards

I'm living out of a wrapper

Gold ones to be honest

With big XLs all over them if you jocking

Just being honest, something nobody ever is

Relevant problems because the problem is relevance

Invincible in the memo section

Mo'erfuckers shoulder reading, trying to get a reflection

By any means

I'm trying to make it all make sense

Or talk money on the beat so we can all pay rent

[Verse 2: Open]

Playing Cody Chesnutt the theme song

Nothing but an open heart for me to lean on

Trying to get my green grown

Children singing out to the high heavens

Lord please help us help us not to be clones

Wherever we roam

I feel the load weigh heavily telling them reload

I just want peace though

Peace within us are in

Peace from within shines brighter than the stars

And the cars and the shards of the jewel

And the bezel, the tools to dishevel

The views of the youth that are used as a vessel

To tell the truth, I used to dream of it too

But tell me, what's an honest Commie to do?

I mean the obvious route

Stack it up to give it back and what not

Instead of stack to get a pad with a yacht

By any means, I'm trying to feed my people

Need to do or you die

Until I'm in the zoo in the sky

Almighty Open am I

[Hook: Skyzoo]

By any means, my enemy was in plenty reach

Tried to passenger seat it and balance him and me

Shit ain't working so now I'm trying to get where he be

And Subzero that mo'erfucker within his sleep

Looking down at a mirror where his pillow be

Reached for him and got to it to keep him sleep

No hustle involved, but I was beating me

Know the hustle involved if should you see him leave

Know we run to the stars whenever we in reach

How they come through in cars that we don't seem to see