01 The Ringer

[00:00.83] *Plane crash*

[00:03.33] Yeah, (Illa)

[00:07.33] Yo, I'm just gonna write down my first thoughts, see where this takes me, ’cause I feel like I wanna punch the world in the fuckin' face right now, yeah!

[00:17.34] Let me explain just how to make greatness

[00:21.59] Straight out the gate, I'm ’bout to break it down

[00:23.34] Ain't no mistakes allowed, but make no mistake, I'm 'bout

[00:26.08] To rape the alphabet, I may raise some brows

[00:29.58] If I press the issue just to get the anger out (brrr)

[00:30.58] Full magazine could take Staples out

[00:32.33] Savage but ain't thinkin' 'bout no bank account

[00:34.33] But bitch, I'm off the chain like Kala Brown

[00:36.09] Motherfucker, shut the fuck up when I’m talkin’, lil' bitch

[00:38.58] I’m sorry, wait, what's your talent? Oh, critiquin'

[00:40.83] My talent? Oh, bitch, I don't know who the fuck y’all are

[00:44.34] To give a sub-par bar or even have an opinion or view

[00:47.83] You mention me, millions of views, attention in news

[00:50.08] I mention you, lose-lose for me, win-win for you

[00:54.08] Billions of views, your ten cents are two

[00:56.07] Skim through the music to give shit reviews

[00:58.08] To get clicks, but bitch, you just lit the fuse

[01:00.08] Don't get misconstrued, business as us'

[01:01.84] Shit-list renewed, so get shit to do

[01:04.33] Or get dissed 'cause I just don't get

[01:06.08] What the fuck half the shit is that you're listenin' to

[01:07.84] Do you have any idea how much I hate this choppy flow

[01:12.58] Everyone copies though? Probably no

[01:12.83] Get this fuckin' audio out my Audi yo, adiós

[01:14.84] I can see why people like Lil Yachty, but not me though

[01:16.84] Not even dissin', it just ain't for me

[01:18.33] All I am simply is just an MC

[01:20.83] Maybe "Stan" just isn't your cup of tea (get it)

[01:23.08] Maybe your cup's full of syrup and lean

[01:24.83] Maybe I need to stir up shit, preferably

[01:26.83] Shake the world up if it were up to me

[01:28.58] Paul wants me to chill, y'all want me to ill

[01:30.59] I should eat a pill, probably I will

[01:33.08] Old me killed the new me, watch him bleed to death

[01:35.09] I breathe on the mirror, I don't see my breath

[01:36.84] Possibly I'm dead, I must be possessed

[01:39.09] Like an evil spell, I'm E-V-I-L (evil, spelled)

[01:41.08] Jam a Crest Whitestrip in the tip of my dick

[01:44.83] With an ice pick, stick it in a vise grip

[01:46.83] Hang it on a spike fence, bang it with a pipe wrench

[01:48.34] While I take my ballsack and flick it like a light switch

[01:50.09] Like vice-president Mike Pence

[01:51.83] Back up on my shit in a sidekick as I lay it on a spike strip

[01:53.58] These are things that I'd rather do than hear you on a mic

[01:57.33] Since nine tenths of your rhyme is about ice and

[01:59.33] Jesus Christ, man, how many times is

[02:01.33] Someone gonna fuck on my bitch? (Fuck my side chick!)

[02:04.33] You won't ever see Em icy

[02:05.58] But as cold as I get on the M-I-C

[02:07.08] I polarize shit, so the Thames might freeze

[02:09.58] And your skull might split like I passed you upside it

[02:11.59] Bitch, I got the club on smash like a nightstick (yeah)

[02:13.59] Turn down for what?

[02:16.08] I ain't loud enough, nah, turn the Valium up!

[02:17.34] 'Cause I don't know how I'm gonna get your mouths to shut

[02:18.83] Now when it doesn't matter what caliber

[02:21.34] I spit at, I'll bet a hundred thousand bucks

[02:23.59] You'll turn around and just be like, "Man, how the fuck

[02:25.58] Sourpuss gonna get mad just 'cause his album sucks?

[02:27.83] And now he wants to take it out on us." (ooouuu)

[02:31.83] But last week, an ex-fan mailed me a copy

[02:33.83] Of The Mathers LP to tell me to study

[02:35.83] It'll help me get back to myself and she'll love me (ooouuu)

[02:39.83] I mailed the bitch back and said if I did that

[02:41.84] I'd just be like everyone else in the fucking industry

[02:44.59] Especially an effing Recovery clone of me (NFing)

[02:46.33] So finger-bang, chicken wang, MGK, Igg' Azae'

[02:50.08] Lil Pump, Lil Xan imitate Lil Wayne

[02:51.84] I should aim at everybody in the game, pick a name

[02:54.08] I'm fed up with bein' humble

[02:56.08] And rumor is I'm hungry, I'm sure you heard bumblings

[02:57.58] I heard you wanna rumble like an empty stomach

[02:59.33] I heard your mumblin', but it's jumbled in mumbo-jumbo

[03:01.58] The era that I'm from will pummel you, that's what it's comin' to

[03:04.09] What the fuck you're gonna do when you run into it?

[03:06.09] I'm gonna crumble you and I'll take a number two

[03:08.09] And dump on you, if you ain't Joyner

[03:08.83] If you ain't Kendrick or Cole or Sean then you're a goner

[03:10.10] I'm 'bout to bring it to anyone in this bitch who want it

[03:11.35] I guess when you walk into BK you expect a Whopper

[03:13.85] You can order a Quarter Pounder when you go to McDonald's

[03:15.58] But if you're lookin' to get a porterhouse you better go get Revival

[03:16.35] But y'all are actin' like I tried to serve you up a slider

[03:19.84] Maybe the vocals shoulda been auto-tuned

[03:24.10] And you woulda bought it

[03:24.41] But sayin' I no longer got it

[03:25.59] 'Cause you missed a line and never caught it

[03:27.09] 'Cause it went over your head, because you're too stupid to get it

[03:27.58] 'Cause you're mentally retarded, but pretend to be the smartest

[03:28.33] With your expertise and knowledge, but you'll never be an artist

[03:29.83] And I'm harder on myself than you could ever be regardless

[03:31.33] What I'll never be is flawless, all I'll ever be is honest

[03:33.59] Even when I'm gone they're gonna say I brought it

[03:35.84] Even when I hit my forties like a fuckin' alcoholic

[03:38.10] With a bottle full of malt liquor

[03:39.84] But I couldn't bottle this shit any longer

[03:41.09] The fact that I know that I'ma hit my bottom

[03:42.59] If I don't pull myself from the jaws of defeat and rise to my feet

[03:44.84] I don't see why y'all even started with me

[03:46.84] I get in beefs, my enemies die

[03:48.34] I don't cease fire 'til at least all are deceased

[03:49.58] I'm eastside, never be caught slippin'

[03:51.35] Now you see why I don't sleep, not even a wink, I don't blink

[03:53.09] I don't doze off, I don't even nod to the beats

[03:56.09] I don't even close my fuckin' eyes when I sneeze

[03:58.09] "Aw, man! That BET cypher was weak, it was garbage

[04:02.34] The Thing ain't even orange—oh my God, that's a reach!"

[04:03.83] Shout to all my colorblind people

[04:06.83] Each and everyone of y'all, if you call a fire engine green

[04:08.33] Aquamarine, or you think water is pink

[04:11.10] "Dawg, that's a date." "Looks like an olive to me."

[04:12.83] "Look, there's an apple!" "No, it's not, it's a peach!"

[04:14.84] So finger-bang, Pootie Tang

[04:17.34] Burger Kang, Gucci Gang, dookie, dang

[04:19.33] Charlamagne gonna hate anyway, doesn't matter what I say

[04:21.34] Give me Donkey of the Day

[04:22.34] What a way for 2018 to get underway

[04:23.60] But I'm gonna say everything that I wanna say

[04:25.34] Welcome to the slaughterhouse, bitch! (yeah)

[04:28.34] Invite 'em in like a One A Day

[04:31.09] I'm not done (preach)

[04:32.34] 'Cause I feel like the beast of burden

[04:33.33] That line in the sand, was it even worth it?

[04:35.08] 'Cause the way I see people turning's

[04:37.33] Makin' it seem worthless, it's startin' to defeat the purpose

[04:38.84] I'm watchin' my fan base shrink to thirds

[04:41.08] And I was just tryin' to do the right thing, but word

[04:43.34] Has the court of public opinion reached a verdict

[04:45.09] Or still yet to be determined?

[04:47.33] 'Cause I'm determined to be me, critique the worship

[04:48.59] But if I could go back, I'd at least reword it

[04:51.10] And say I empathize with the people this evil serpent

[04:53.34] Sold the dream to that he's deserted

[04:55.59] But I think it's workin'

[04:57.83] These verses are makin' him a wee bit nervous

[04:59.33] And he's too scurred to answer me with words