Royce da 5'9" - No Radio lyrics
[Royce da 5'9" - No Radio lyrics]
I'm more or less professional
I'm perfection like Rolex
Perpetual but I bet you don't
Got this necklace though
This cross is so large it look like a
Set of referee hands calling a technical
Shit - This cross is so foul
Think I'mma call it Solar
As a token to coming and
Taken over my self-control
While I’m trying to overtake your estate
While I’m flying on - karma's
Involved there’s no escape
My brother never beat a case
He used to hit me from prison
Asking me to come perform there
I told him I couldn't, that’d be a waste
I'm not trying to berate the guards
I might rhyme and really raise the bars
There’s enough truth in me to set
This whole penitentiary free anyway
Now I’m about to spit at you
A couple of completely rational things
I’m just a kid with a passion in the back
Yard flipping on a mattress
Splashing in the rain
Who happened to make it international
Who made made a few enemies on
His way to rap supremacy
After he done captured your brain
Somebody who’s sincerely driven by
The spirit of lyricism
Instead of gimmicks designed to get into
Some kind of capital gain
I ain't never asked for fame
I know niggas who rap who ain't
Rapping cause they chasing stats
Well they bout that green
Like Franklin and Jackson
Well I’m bout that green like St patrick’s
And only stats I’m on is knowing
I'll whoop all their asses
In any and all weight classes
I know fasho in my heart
I already coordinate classics
I just need y'all to correlate that wit
Y'all settling for these throwaway
Corny swore away rappers
Is like putting cat shit
Between two gourmet crackers
And the actual performers are onstage
Throwing spoiled eggs at ya
Please, you deserve homemade mac and cheese
And that’s just the start
I'd sell my album for 5 to
A guy with only 10 dollars
To his name before I will to
A rich guy for 10, 000
'Cause a guy who’s got less to
Spend now got to go
Into his heart just to make
His investment into the art
And that reminded me of myself
At 19 in Harlem:
I told wifey I would not be back unsigned
And came back signed with a million dollars
You looking in the eyes of an MC who clearly
Sees the climate shifting and
The odds against me there’s no secret
There’s no reason for me to
Go get more features
I don’t need you to promote or support me
I don’t need your beat
I don’t need to force things
We don’t need to speak more
I don’t need to be out in the street more
I don’t think I need to tweet more
All I really need is these flows
What do we know?
All you really need to know about
Me is the quality dope
Just because I’m kind of popular what
Ya tryin to bother me for?
I ain't never came out and bothered none of
Y'all when ya’ll was partying with the Migos
I ain’t gotta politic bitch - I’m
A black star Ali Kweli Mos
I’m a King Tech and Sway alumni nigga
Stretch and Bobbito
Shout to Peter Rosenberg, shout my nigga Ebro
Shout my nigga C tha God, shout to Yee tho
Radio not for me, I see
It’s not about L-Y-R-IC no more
No more interviews I’m Ceeyo
I ain't interested
Nah, I'd rather kick it with and
Sit around and listen to that
Kid Stitches spit while I sniff
An entire ki of coke
Nah, I’d rather let Slim Jesus
Baptize my kids in
A synagogue while I’m swinging in my vehicle
Look my pedigree has officially been
Elevated to best flow-er
That the mean I gotta step down in
Order to give a mortal direct orders
I speak to the culture like Hova does
Y'all beef and squash beef and
Then address make up
Y'all speak to the culture like
Boy George and Culture Club
But y'all keeping me focused
On dodging these vultures
And you know what? I might even
Be the greatest artist in history
Think about it - all these schemes
These are not just fresh rhymes, sir
These don't get thought of
These get conjured
Then these are compounded in the Exxon and
Stockpiled until it's time to hop out
Of my complex mind and possibly create
It or repeat it in concert
These are my greater beliefs
Too deep for you to rate or critique
As far as the haters
It’s too late you done already
Made me a monster
PRhyme is something you can thank
Me and Heron for
Bad Meets Evil is something you can thank me
P and Denaun for
Bar Exam is me saying thank you
For being down for us
I’m slam dunking that Book of Ryan my nigga
Encore
Me and Key Wane got something coming soon
It’s a mind blower
The Lord looking down on me like shine boy
I'm perfection like Rolex
Perpetual but I bet you don't
Got this necklace though
This cross is so large it look like a
Set of referee hands calling a technical
Shit - This cross is so foul
Think I'mma call it Solar
As a token to coming and
Taken over my self-control
While I’m trying to overtake your estate
While I’m flying on - karma's
Involved there’s no escape
My brother never beat a case
He used to hit me from prison
Asking me to come perform there
I told him I couldn't, that’d be a waste
I'm not trying to berate the guards
I might rhyme and really raise the bars
There’s enough truth in me to set
This whole penitentiary free anyway
Now I’m about to spit at you
A couple of completely rational things
I’m just a kid with a passion in the back
Yard flipping on a mattress
Splashing in the rain
Who happened to make it international
Who made made a few enemies on
His way to rap supremacy
After he done captured your brain
Somebody who’s sincerely driven by
The spirit of lyricism
Instead of gimmicks designed to get into
Some kind of capital gain
I ain't never asked for fame
I know niggas who rap who ain't
Rapping cause they chasing stats
Well they bout that green
Like Franklin and Jackson
Well I’m bout that green like St patrick’s
And only stats I’m on is knowing
I'll whoop all their asses
In any and all weight classes
I know fasho in my heart
I already coordinate classics
I just need y'all to correlate that wit
Y'all settling for these throwaway
Corny swore away rappers
Is like putting cat shit
Between two gourmet crackers
And the actual performers are onstage
Throwing spoiled eggs at ya
Please, you deserve homemade mac and cheese
And that’s just the start
I'd sell my album for 5 to
A guy with only 10 dollars
To his name before I will to
A rich guy for 10, 000
'Cause a guy who’s got less to
Spend now got to go
Into his heart just to make
His investment into the art
And that reminded me of myself
At 19 in Harlem:
I told wifey I would not be back unsigned
And came back signed with a million dollars
You looking in the eyes of an MC who clearly
Sees the climate shifting and
The odds against me there’s no secret
There’s no reason for me to
Go get more features
I don’t need you to promote or support me
I don’t need your beat
I don’t need to force things
We don’t need to speak more
I don’t need to be out in the street more
I don’t think I need to tweet more
All I really need is these flows
What do we know?
All you really need to know about
Me is the quality dope
Just because I’m kind of popular what
Ya tryin to bother me for?
I ain't never came out and bothered none of
Y'all when ya’ll was partying with the Migos
I ain’t gotta politic bitch - I’m
A black star Ali Kweli Mos
I’m a King Tech and Sway alumni nigga
Stretch and Bobbito
Shout to Peter Rosenberg, shout my nigga Ebro
Shout my nigga C tha God, shout to Yee tho
Radio not for me, I see
It’s not about L-Y-R-IC no more
No more interviews I’m Ceeyo
I ain't interested
Nah, I'd rather kick it with and
Sit around and listen to that
Kid Stitches spit while I sniff
An entire ki of coke
Nah, I’d rather let Slim Jesus
Baptize my kids in
A synagogue while I’m swinging in my vehicle
Look my pedigree has officially been
Elevated to best flow-er
That the mean I gotta step down in
Order to give a mortal direct orders
I speak to the culture like Hova does
Y'all beef and squash beef and
Then address make up
Y'all speak to the culture like
Boy George and Culture Club
But y'all keeping me focused
On dodging these vultures
And you know what? I might even
Be the greatest artist in history
Think about it - all these schemes
These are not just fresh rhymes, sir
These don't get thought of
These get conjured
Then these are compounded in the Exxon and
Stockpiled until it's time to hop out
Of my complex mind and possibly create
It or repeat it in concert
These are my greater beliefs
Too deep for you to rate or critique
As far as the haters
It’s too late you done already
Made me a monster
PRhyme is something you can thank
Me and Heron for
Bad Meets Evil is something you can thank me
P and Denaun for
Bar Exam is me saying thank you
For being down for us
I’m slam dunking that Book of Ryan my nigga
Encore
Me and Key Wane got something coming soon
It’s a mind blower
The Lord looking down on me like shine boy