Rat Race - Akir

TECs, checks to bless.

Vexed sex with stress

Intangible gains arranged, my pockets dead from debts

My pain stems deep.

In abyss, I can’t sleep

New York king complete.

Battle filled the concrete

Trying to make ends meet, but they got fury with each other

One is my delegate and the other is my brother

Cream said they was men until they never flipped kids

Taking the rent money, so these niggas got addicted

He gave it to this bitch on his dick

Didn’t give a fuck about D’s.

She had kids to feed

My mother tells me, «Get together with your man mind»

He’s lost, I can’t find son.

I know he’s in jail

Every time I look for him, my mom’s got to post bail ‘cause it’s

A rat race and the movement’s quick, sucker

A voice said, «Watch your back, son, and the counterfeit

Get the money up front «and the New York mental ‘cause it’s

A rat race.

It’s a rat race, son

It’s a rat race.

It’s a rat race, son

It’s a rat race.

It’s a rat race, son

Motivation from my mans to get the crew back to old times

rhyming in the park

Body want to dance if mind with the lyrics

Hard to pump up, dividing his soul to freak the gifted

That nigga hard, he rest in parts—the first to get blasted, B

Days before, I told him ‘bout this cat named reality

Coming out his crib, silhouette by the streetlights

On the way to meet his shorty—yo, you know that street life

They was just getting started, didn’t even see the dadas

All of a sudden, linked in drama—life as real as baby mama

Before they cut his bucked him in the brain

Ever since and it ain’t never been the same

But he played off and kept it thriving in the struggle

Out of them all, my best friend’s soul is constantly

In trouble, on the run

It’s a rat race, son

It’s a rat race.

It’s a rat race, son

It’s a rat race.

It’s a rat race, son

It’s a rat race.

It’s a rat race, nigga

Thought he grew up.

Even though a nigga been through it

Nicotine lungs, a liver that’s done—scars to prove it

Took a walk about it and left his mans and it

Felt like a zombie pumping with no hands and it

hurry to write a check

He’s hoping that his latest rhyme’ll bring him out of debts

Getting strong, him and his pops getting along

«Keep your enemies, your friends"—lyrics from his newest song

Survivalist, he thrives and just to bring ‘em all together

Unite in one form what makes your heart last forever

Time goes on, the song prolongs

The lifetime that belongs and how we all say, «Dawg»

Through the bitches in heat, through the ditches and beef

Through the switches that lock bars and biting with your teeth

one last message to my mens:

It’s a rat race.

Let’s stack the cheddar ‘til the end