Joell Ortiz - Intro lyrics

Let's start off with New
York rapper Joell Ortiz
He, uhh, dropped an album on Koch
Then he was signed to Dr dre's Aftermath

I remember him! And he came up here?

Yup!

He's the one that was drinkin
The 40 in the video

Right, well
He's not signed to Dr dre anymore
Looks like he was released from, uhh
Aftermath

That was short

He never even got a chance
To put out a single

That was very short-lived, what happened?

I don't know, shit, you tell me
All I did was made me the title of my new LP
(Free Agent)
I still got the streets in a frenzy
Still got that 40
But it's underneath the seat in my Chevy
(aw) i hop on any beat and I empty
When I'm squeezing, my pen be sending shots
Everywhere like Dikembe
Rappers that you praise go out
Their way to befriend me
The rest stay out my way and
Probably pray they can end me
But let me make this so clear
My career's on a treadmill
I'm running this shit and ain't going nowhere
Rockin on the scene with my team
All with no fears (Slaughter)
'Til my pockets green like what's
In between my nose hairs (ew)
Nothing but flow here (look)
Like Puerto Rico when it's
Snowing in New York
(what) oh yeah, I go there
I'm fueled by the energy my foes share
I won't tap out
Y'all assed out like the old Cher
Between me and you, rap dudes is so scared
I'm still in the hood with
Cashews and a cold beer
So not an industry nigga
Add 20 years and a beard
To my elementary picture (Ortiz)
Same kid, same hunger, same drive
And I tip my hat to those that tried
But (It's not the same) - ever felt like you gotta do it? (man)
Well multiply that by a trillion
That's the YAOWA movement (ay)
The reason that I get stupid and
Dumb when the track is movin'
In order for God to find me
Guess I had to lose it i'm gone
Flow strong but I still add subtractors to it
Imagine the dude you hear now
With a vast improvement
I'm harder than a blind man trying
To reconfigure a plastic Rubik
Smeared in the nuclear reactor fluid
I parallel park grind, put my back into it
Know some Heathcliffs with spliffs
Bunch of cats that blew it (damn)
Failure? No, not me
That ain't gon' cut it, on my three
Look at sunshine through your cloudy doubt
My whole life been in a ring
Don't ever count me out