As It Is Lyrics

Know your lane, hold it down

Either be fake or keep it real

This is art, so let me paint

Yeah, let me grow, leave me be

Lead by example or be the example

Get all you can handle or be a handful, ayy

We all got a role (What's yours?)

We all got a chance (A chance)

This is what we do (We do)

This is where we stand (We stand)

Some do it for money (That's guap)

Some because they can (They can)

But show up or be shown out (Shown out)

You either blow up or get shot down (Shot down)

I'm gon' leave it (I'm gon' leave it)

A-S I-T I-S (Leave it!)

I'm gon' leave it (I'm gon' leave it)

A-S I-T I-S (Leave it, ayy!)

I'm gon' leave it (I'm gon' leave it)

A-S I-T I-S (Leave it!)

I'm gon' leave it (I'm gon' leave it)

A-S I-T I-S (Leave it, just leave it!)

Keep it how it is

Critique, but don't mistreat them 'cause they kids

Tweak the little things

So, teach the fundamentals

Go against the grain, end up as the sieve

As you age, it drains, you're in disbelief

If you stay the same, what would you achieve?

Look how far you've come, you're the one to beat

Once you jump the gun, nothing's guaranteed

Some ask and don't receive

You doin' stuff that don't make you at whole (At whole)

Won't burnt all ya bridges that come with a toll

Stirrin' up a theory that you're insecure (Insecure)

Tryna please everybody, but it doesn't work

I got people tryna tug on the cape, uh (Yeah)

These followers are only givin' me praise, uh (Yeah)

Artist are bein' forced on display (Display)

What's the point of bein' a master, if you still a slave? (Slave)

You're measured by ya talent

Not the numbers bein' counted

Or the spot that some'll challenge

'Long as you can keep ya balance

I stay among the masses

You can watch me work my magic

Ain't no atlas, but I'm mapped inside a state that you can't fathom

On a level I won't settle for, sever from the ever norm

Tend to gain momentum

I prevent those who misuse the forum

From the get-go

There were ghettos using ethos, building stores

For the record, I make records, recording what most ignore

Reapin' without a reward

Tied up scores, I adjourn

I'm just tryna underscore I'm the calm before the, uh

I'm the calm before the storm

At the end of it all

I got this lane nobody can jaywalk to get across

However this ends, you gotta hold yours down

People leave behind a trail of what they've gone through

For us to use as stepping stones towards our accolades

They die, but their music lives on

Into the fray, watchin' where my feet tread

Takes a deep breath

They told me that I shouldn't stay, as a precaution

Word is seamless, you're like wheat bread

What these peeps have is a variety of options

You haven't tried, so you can't knock it

Might not get it

It's the art of business

Aware of my surroundings, don't consider givin' in to the audience

I ain't here to tell a joke, but to point one out, a few

This is what I do, I'm here to join a track or two

I let 'em win 'til the air is thin

I'm starin' at a desert drier than it's ever been

Stage is set

Now it's 'bout makin' a dent

Home is where the heart is at

That is how we connect, and I'm gone (Whoa)

I could have faded away in a heartbeat

At the rate mine was headed

Not a single good deed was on the record

My breath was taken away (Taken away)

No one at my bedside while I had fear on my face (Fear on my face)

Had visits from people who were nothing but strangers (Strangers)

Way over the limit, I escaped my own containment (Containment)

Then time elapsed by

And bedlam creeped in

I let you have at me, this how it ends, as it is

Was it worth it?

I get it, you wanted

You needed a change in your life and you did just that

But at what cost?

The person I once knew is still in there somewhere

You haven't fell that far from grace

But you're teetering over the edge

Where is your heart at right now? That's the real question

First, heal yourself

You're in critical condition

One thing's for sure: it can't end like this