XV - Lift The Game lyrics

Yeah, curtain close, throw your rose
The night is early, let's make a toast
The sales figures bring smiles
To well wishers
Bring frowns to frail niggas
The town is there with ya
The city say remember when radio
Ain't give Vizzy play?
Now they read the shit I say
Like I was Earnest Hemingway
Funny how the square that could
Never really fit it
Got so many people riding
I don't know if they'll all fit in
They tell me move to New
York like it's so fatal
Keep your plane ticket, I brought tow cables
I'm so able to prove 'em wrong motherfucker
Cause the kid from Smallville going show
All how I'm gonna go and

Lift this game up and bring it
Back to where I fucking live
I'mma lift this game up and bring it
Back to where I fucking live
Cause, I'mma be the one that
Put us on motherfucker
Now get out the park and
Bring this shit home motherfucker
We on yeah, tell my city we on-we on

So I'm banging on a trashcan
Drumming on a street light
'Bout time I left here
Everything don't seem right
Rocket packs are fully charged
The moon and stars that would be ours
Home is where you find your
Heart and at this point, i'm up on Mars
Look where we were raised
Look what mom was paid
Look at what they gave us and
Look at what we made
So when it comes to grind
You can't tell me a fucking thing
When I've been making my whole city
Wait for the day that Imma

No acceptance speeches
I don't really need it
Cause, I've never been accepted by
The people who seek it
We try to make history with
Hopes we get to see
The faces of the ones we knew in
School that used to teach it
Goodbye to nine-to-fives, hello 24 7's
In your first 15 minutes
You can not waste a second
I came to make my presence, I'm a real rapper
The story of your life
To me it’s just a little chapter
This for the masses who cut classes
Not to sit on their asses but do
Our homework so we pass it
Kids go to school through more
Seasons than MASH did
We just wanna get there
Pick the road that's the fastest
We shoot rockets
Plug sockets with foreign objects
Go this-a-way and don't participate
In trend and topics
It seems like being outside us
Was our only choice
So I make sure I stay gold, Ponyboy
Trying to be world stars
They push their views on us
But we try to stay away from
Being what you want us
The streets get hotter than a June Summer
But don't tell me I should
Move nigga ‘cause Imma-cause Imma