Confidence & swagger

Screams from the haters got a nice ring to it

I guess every superhero need his theme music

Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice

I say the darker the flesh, then the deeper the roots (Oh)

Don't call it a comeback, I been here for years

I'm rocking my peers, putting suckas in fear

Making the tears rain down like a monsoon

Listen to the bass go boom

I'm Jay-Z on a bad day, Shakespeare on my worst days

Swear I should be locked up for stupid

that I did

But I'm a champion, so I turned tragedy to triumph (Uh-huh! Yeah!)

Make music that's fire, spit my soul through the wire (Woo!)

Everything I'm not made me everything I am

'Cause I'm Black and I'm proud, I'm ready, I'm hyped, plus, I'm amped

Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

But real gangsta-ass niggas don't flex nuts, 'cause real gangsta-ass niggas know they got 'em

You're mad 'cause my style you're admiring

Don't be mad, UPS is hiring (Woo!)

"Who you callin' a bitch?"

Last name Ever, first name Greatest

Facts on tracks I recite well

Everybody wanna be like Mike, but Mike wanna be like L

I'm top 5, dead or alive, and that's just off one LP

Call it a curse

Or just call me blessed

If you can't handle my worst

You ain't gettin' my best

I make you famous, turn around, then make you nameless

I scored 1.1 on my S.A.T.

And still push a whip with a right and left A.C

The grace as I ease across the stage

Bars around the audience, sort of like a cage

They laugh, 'cause they assume I'm in prison

But in reality, they're locked in

Black entrepreneur, nobody did us no favors

Nobody gave us shit, we made us

Some say I lucked up; I call it perfect timin' (Chyeah)

All these rappers got humungous choppers

But I swear they got some baby nuts boy

I would hate me too if I had the same MySpace views as you

I be killin' them shit in rap events

Big L is that nigga you expect

To catch wreck on any cassette deck

I'm so ahead of my time, my parents haven't met yet

The devil doesn't wear Prada, I'm clearly in a fuckin' white tee

My mind's my nine, my pen's my MAC-10

Ones that hate us, handcuff us and mace us

Call us dumb niggas 'cause our culture is contagious

Third-generation South Central gangbangers

That lived long enough to see it changin'

I float like gravity, never had a cavity

Got more rhymes than the Winans got family

Face card pretty, you know God don't like ugly

Ain't no party like a West Coast party

'Cause a West Coast party don't stop

These hoes don't be mad at Megan, these hoes mad at Megan's Law

Nas is like the Afrocentric Asian: half-man, half-amazin'

You can build a bear, fuck it, I'm finna build a thot

I ain’t on nobody else timetable.

I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved who I’m not any day

Sometimes I don’t feel like I’m the prettiest, sometimes I don’t feel like I’m on top, and when I hear ‘Bodak Yellow’ again, I’m like, ‘Yeah! I’m that bitch!’

I'm gonna live by my confidence, I'm gonna die by my arrogance

I'm a businessman, you ain't never been the man

Man, I got summer hatin' on me 'cause I'm hotter than the sun

Got spring hatin' on me 'cause I ain't never sprung

Winter hatin' on me 'cause I'm colder than y'all

And I will never, I will never, I will never fall

Don’t underthink me, and don’t overthink me. Don’t underestimate me, and don’t overestimate me. Just do you.

Good girls do what they told (Told)

Bad bitches do what they want (They want)

That's why a bitch is so cold (Woo)

And even if I got deported, I own America

Men do what they want, boys do what they can

Fuck jiggy, I'm flawless, fuck pretty, I'm gorgeous

Your favorite rappers' corpses couldn't measure my importance

My mind is out in orbits, plus my ego got endorsements

If he passes through my label I'm snatching his halo

God, I'll trade you, if you send my father back as an angel

You're just a butter knife, I'm a machete

You play checkers, couldn't beat me playin' chess

He got ninety-nine problems and the biggest one is me (Yup)

Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell records (Nope)

Well, I do, so fuck him, and fuck you too

Why would I get mad at you for saying you the baddest? Why can’t we both agree that we bad, and that just be that?

I don't chase 'em, I replace 'em

My rap career goes back further than your father hairline

It's ludicrous - I pack more nuts than Delta Airlines

I never let a statue tell me how nice I am

I got a gold-made plate that says "I wish you would"

I'd rather die like a man than live like a coward

I'm the opposite of moderate

Immaculately polished with the spirit of a hustler and the swagger of a college kid

Everythin' your nigga want, I'm like a walkin' wishlist (Bardi)

I don't understand what this hate is about (Haha)

How you gon' suck yo' man dick with my name in yo' mouth? (Woo, woo, woo, woo)

I can't swim but I'm throwing pool parties

I bomb atomically, Socrates' philosophies and hypotheses

Because once you get in the mirror and you start finding shit that you do like about yourself, you’re going to stay in the motherfucking mirror trying to perfect that.

If keeping it real is a sin, you better pray for this

Always worried 'bout the critics who ain't ever fuckin' did it

I write what's in my heart, don't give a fuck who fuckin' with it