Confidence & swagger: Page 5

My three role models growing up were the three most confident, powerful, important, contemporary male black figures: Kanye West, Barack Obama, and Dave Chappelle

You ain't gotta like me right now. I know how to make you change the way you think though.

I been flexin' all my life, you can't finesse me, nigga

These bitches salty, they sodium, they jelly, petroleum

Always talkin' in the background, don't never come to the podium (Speech?)

Chef Cardi B, I'm cookin' up, I see you hoes at the stove again (Cardi)

It can get scary when you legendary

Wake up, take a sip of Ace of Spade like it's water

Livin' single and I'm happy, I ain't tryna be a couple (Nah)

Tryna triple all my income now, I gotta do some doubles

I get what I desire, it's my empire

And yes, I call the shots, I am the umpire

I sprinkle holy water upon a vampire

And stop talkin' 'bout who I'm stickin' and lickin'

Just mad it ain't yours

Any MC can battle for glory

But to kick a dope rhyme to wake up your people's another story

Act like you never saw me

'Cause when it comes to lyrics, I'm in a different category

Try tell me I'm way too big to rebel? (What?)

Nah, man, you're never too big to rebel (What?)

My competition, you'll find them in the hospital

Yes, I'm too cocky

My bitch broke up with me, it shocked me

Bitch, you a bum, don't get a crumb

How you got cake and ain't fuckin' for none?

I better not ever catch you talkin' shit

If your bank account still attached to your mom's

All my young black kings rise up, man, this is our year (Our year)

And my young black queens right there (Right there)

It's been a long time coming, I swear

And you

Your reign on the top was short like leprechauns

As I crush so-called willies, thugs and rapper-dons

Get in that ass quick-fast like Ramadan

Well, we don't believe you, you need more people

Yeah, ain't a way around it no more, I am the greatest

A lotta niggas sat on the throne, I am the latest

I am the bravest, go toe to toe with the giants

I swear to God, man, everything in life is old

And the only thing that changed is the price of gold

I'm the rapper of the year and this the year of the rap

And I'm never drinkin beer, it's champagne at the tap

And I'm cold makin money on a regular basis

Pullin out, knockin sucker MC faces

Takin' her spot (Grrah)

If you ain't cookin', then get off the pot

My name Ice, but I always stay hot

I put hoes in NY onto DKNY

Miami, D.C. prefer Versace

All Philly hoes, go with Moschino

Every cutie wit a booty bought a Coogi

My style can't be duplicated or recycled

This chick is a sick individual

Please, think before you come for the great one

Bullets heat-seekin', casualties need treatin'

Dumb rappers need teachin'

Lesson A: Don't fuck with B-I

Don't gotta edit, check the Getty

I keep it real, I keep it sexy

I was born to shine, and most of y'all's borderline bullshit

People, we the pirates, the pride of this great republic

No matter what you order, muhfucker, we what you're stuck with (Sorry)

Open your eyes, I'm a blessing in disguise

Goddamn, I'm glad y'all set it off

Used to be hard, now you're just wet and soft

And the outside cold, but the boy got heat

So now we sittin' in a drop-top, soakin' wet

In a silk suit, tryin' not to sweat

Hit somersaults without the net

But this'll be the year that we won't forget

I am phenomenal

But I'll never say, "Oh, it's impossible"

'Cause I'm born to be phenomenal (Freely, no emotion)

I'm the R, the A to the K-I-M

If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?

I want to be a legend, but sometimes I don't know why. There are all these people on the ground doing real work: the teachers, the healers, the preachers.

I'm not saying I'm number one, uhh I'm sorry, I lied

I'm number one, two, three, four and five

Furniture custom, you shop at IKEA

Show Maserati, you whippin' a Kia

Spendin' this money, it's longer than Nia

I realized that’s it my life and that I’m the one painting the picture that’s going to be left, so why not do everything my way?

If they want a nigga, they gon' have to send a SWAT team

And I'm goin' out like Scarface in his last scene

A legend, what that mean?

Damn, I said I spit like I'm the ghost of 'em

Name your top ten, I'm harder than the most of 'em

Matter fact, shorten your list, nigga, top five

Game, Biggie, Hov, probably Pac, Nas

The ambition is to be number one so you can experience the sensation in your ego of being number one.

Eat they raw sound, wash it down with a Mistic

Better yet a Snapple

Nigga want the juice, but he don't want the hassle

Shit, remember Will Smith won the first Grammy?

And they ain't even recognize Hov until "Annie"

Bishop G, they told me I should come down, cousin

But I flatly refuse: I ain't dumb down nothing!

A old man, when people ask you what you did with your life

You'll say "I hated L.L. and I carried a big knife"

Every day is a chase, every day is a race

And every day you're being overpowered by my bass

These average rappers is acting up for the dough

Yeah I tell you what I believe but I back it up with what I know (oh!)

Ayy, I set the bar, I'm the fuckin' bar

Sold five mil' out the gate and numbers do not lie

I stay draped in diamonds and pearls

Beside every man is a Bad Girl

Niggas ain't fit to walk a mile in the dead man's kicks

Been there, did it, shitted and wiped my ass wit' it

Sober as a gopher? (Nope)

Higher than a rollercoaster? (Yup)

Star Wars? (Nope)

Yoda? (Yup)

I will endanger your species like an ostrich (Ha)

Hold you hostage and crazy feed you swine sausage! (Ha)

I'm a wizard of a word, that's what you heard

And anything else is quite absurd

Live like the Kennedy's — above the law

'Cause who Jah bless, let no one curse

Pitching yayo like Dontrelle Willis (What?), we the trillest

On the mound, I'm holdin that whole South down, I know you feel us

I love you 'cause you hate me more

More green than my Whole Foods

And I'm too fly, Jeff Goldblum

You tremble for my treble, you're begging for the bass

The voice is too vicious, the same as the pace