Seat at the Table Lyrics

They say the fun in the struggle when you coming up

So when you at the bottom, better off you facing up

A lot of losses, many lessons but it all depends

Success is measure building mountains of the smaller wins

Had a nigga went away for a couple summers

Did a bid and came back, he hit the ground running

He got out, I came from Cali, I was on to something

Hopped in the game and treasured lessons I was learning from him

I don't measure niggas when everything is going right

I study how they handle lowest moments in they life

My vision bright, I'm Malcom when joined the Nation

Cause I be looking further ahead than where they wanna take it

That's how you bring upon the envy on yourself and shit

So fuck em all, you better off on your selfish

Half the time it be the niggas that you rolling with

So I keep going like the tires on a Michelin

Knew a bitch that ran the streets like Michele

They love her but she rather be my B-I-T-C-H

Got a stable full of em, call it Bitches Brew

I'm Miles Ahead nigga, this is The Rebirth of Cool

My pretty lady Holiday, she used to sing the blues

In Marvin city, Southeast gave me Inner City Blues

Was in a lose-lose, every day it was the same

Til' Warren Buffet taught me how to play the winners game

Mother know I'm able put her ripple in her eye

Seat at the Table, So long we elevating, Crane in Sky

I'm eating with the same niggas that I came up with

Brunches with the bitches with the Champagne cup sips

I used to walk in rooms where nobody knew my name

Now my niggas bosses, filled the club up with some Dames

Can't fade me now nigga, I'm 10 on ground nigga

Toe-tapping on Tigers, love or hate me now nigga

Stab me in my back, and it hurt a nigga

Gotta be careful who be serving with you

Shit was fucking with my pride, but I'm moving though

She fucking with who I am cause she know it's true

Atlantic, Highlands, me and Floyd, what a fuckin' view

Niggas chillin, what a feeling, asking who the fuck is you

Kept it real since 10 Toes Down babe I'm something new

Respect all grounds, but got a sound Imma introduce

When I debut, certain shit I know I gotta move

Be my father or make it honest, nigga I had to chose

Left to mourn was me and Quentin, that shit gave us the blues

At the pew, who killed my father slim? I wish I knew

Lost everyone, it's like a hex was on us

Felt like death was prepping for us

It's like I'm Horus, life was born from the fuckin corpses

Whipping Porsches, pop the trunk I had to count the fuckin horses

Fuck the chorus, looping vocals, that shit was less important

Message pouring out from the realest so you couldn't force it

College never taught us to prepare for courses

That life would put us through and that the shit would steady worsen

Thank God for the lesson I'm blessed to graduate with

My words was always something that the people gravitate to

Blacks killing blacks, we digging massive graves too

I'd risk it all to serve the people, they can grab a plate too

Cause when it's all said and done, how they gon replace you

Legacy get hazy, when you name fading

Asking what I'm on, young? I'm steady building

The floor of which my son will stand will be a sturdy ceiling

Standing on my shoulders, and Imma let him know it

Everything he see was conquered by the ones chosen

It was never given, you had to prove and how it

That the breathe that was blew inside your lung was worth it