Complex Magazine - Know the Edge (Excerpt) lyrics

I get it, it gives life structure you
Come home every day
And Abed’s in front of you and
When Troy’s not there it’s like
‘Where the fuck is
My structure!?’ I get it but it’s time, man


Even while delivering the heralded
"Pound Cake" freestyle, nine
Days after posting his notes on Instagram
Gambino flaunted his insecurities "So
Nerdy but the flow wordy, " he rapped
But he still impressed Sway "Folks are
Sleeping on him, because they seen
Him on TV first
" says the veteran hip-hop DJ
They think he’s corny
Or they don’t give him a shot as
He continues to evolve he’s
Differentiating himself from the
Others he does that thing where he stops
Rapping and starts talking and
Then comes back on
Beat that’s his signature i like rappers who
Find ways to differentiate themselves
Patterns are all repetitious
Now motherfuckers even rhyming
The same words"

According to Sway
The difference between an Internet rapper
And a real MC is
"tangibility" Internet rappers might move a
Lot of free downloads
But they can’t translate
IRL "Gambino’s beyond
An Internet rapper because I’ve
Been to his shows and I’ve
Seen them sold out
" he says while Donald claims to
Not care about record sales
(his 2011 album, Camp, released
On Glassnote Records
Sold over 240, 000 copies) , he
Clearly wants to fill arenas, not college
Auditoriums "My music is for everybody
" he says "It’s stuff I like
But it’s also accessible i don’t want
To be preaching to the choir
You see a lot of these conscious rappers
Doing that they’re not gaining new fans
They’re just agreeing with people
I want to reach
As many people as I possibly can"


Some people take the name Because the
Internet as a joke a
Snarky comment that could be the
Caption to a meme but to Donald
It’s more than that the Internet
Has shaped the way
He views the world, the way
He relates to people, and the way he creates
And disseminates his art

"I want to show how the
Internet affects our lives, " he says
"As much as everyone can find
Someone on the Internet now
We still feel lost i still
Feel very empty it makes
Me feel more lost because nothing that I do
Is that different nothing is cool we’re kind
Of alone in the universe
Like those Instagram notes
I shared we all feel these things
But nobody’s figured out how to solve them