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Yeah
Mic check
Blood pressure up
You must've lost the plot
Let me bring it back real heavy
Yeah
Uh
Yeah

In case you forgot
Who been movin' weight in silence?
I been stackin' bodies of doubt while y'all was busy wildin'
Southside steel in the bone, Chicago cold in the tone
I don't flex for the 'Gram, I flex when the lights go home
Built every brick with the same hands that buried snakes

You talkin' loyalty like you ever had to choose the stakes
I watched grown men fold for a number, fold for a name
I stayed standin' when the room got quiet and the pressure came
Ain't no cosign, ain't no handout, ain't no soft reset
I been the last one left when the table turned to debt
You measure life in likes, I measure life in scars
Every scar got a story in it, and every story left a mark

In case you forgot
I don't move for applause, I move 'cause the blood still hot
In case you forgot
I been real when the real ones left and the fake ones got
In case you forgot
I don't need the crown, I already own the plot
In case you forgot
I never left
You just stopped lookin'

I done put grown men through college off pure decision
Buried family with dignity when the system showed no vision

Thirty years of freight and still got fire in the lungs
While y'all still arguin' who's the hardest in the comment section

Young, don't confuse the quiet with weakness—that's a fatal read
I been calculatin' losses while you busy chasin' feed
I don't do the "almost made it," I do the "already did"
Then I walk past the mirror like the mirror still a kid
You want the battle? Cool, bring the full weight of your truth
I'll meet you in the middle with the receipts and the proof
Ain't no ghostwritin' pain, ain't no rented aggression
This the kind of heat that only comes from real compression

In case you forgot
I don't move for applause, I move 'cause the blood still hot
In case you forgot
I been real when the real ones left and the fake ones got
In case you forgot
I don't need the crown, I already own the plot
In case you forgot
I never left
You just stopped lookin'

I done watched the same faces change when the money got loud
Same mouths that praised me started prayin' I fall down

I don't hold a grudge, I just file it under "noted"
Then I keep buildin' higher while they stay devoted to the moment
This ain't therapy bars, this is autopsy talk
I'm dissectin' every soft claim and every borrowed walk
If you ever thought I softened, thought I settled, thought I quit
That's the last time you ever get to underestimate this
Hardcore by design, not by costume or by trend
I been this way since the first time the lights went dim
So if you need a reminder, here it is in plain view
I never left the battlefield

The battlefield left you

In case you forgot
Yeah
Remember now?
Good
Stay dangerous