Kings never die

[00:01.46] Here to stay

[00:03.21] Even when I'm gone

[00:05.96] When I close my eyes

[00:08.46] Through the passage of time

[00:12.46] Kings never die

[00:25.46] I can hear the drummer drumming

[00:27.21] And the trumpets, someone's tryna summon someone, I know something's coming

[00:30.46] But I'm running from it to be standing at the summit

[00:32.71] And plummet, how come it wasn't what I thought it was, was it

[00:34.71] Too good to be true?

[00:35.96] Have nothing, get it all but too much of it then lose it again

[00:38.46] Did I swallow hallucinogens, 'cause if not, where the hell did it go?

[00:41.46] 'Cause here I sit in Lucifer's den by the dutch oven just choosing to sin

[00:44.96] Even if it means I'm selling my soul, just to be the undisputed again

[00:47.71] Do whatever I gotta do just to win

[00:49.71] 'Cause I got this motherfucking cloud over my head

[00:51.96] Crown around it, thorns on it

[00:54.21] Cracks in it, bet you morons didn't

[00:55.96] Think I'd be back, did ya?

[00:57.21] How 'bout that I'm somehow now back to the underdog

[00:59.71] But no matter how loud that I bark, this sport is something I never bow-wow'd at

[01:03.71] I complain about the game, I shout and I pout, it's a love-hate

[01:06.46] But I found out that I can move a mountain of doubt

[01:09.46] Even when you bitches are counting me out, and I appear to be down for the count

[01:11.46] Only time I ever been out and about is

[01:13.96] Driving around town with my fucking whereabouts in a doubt

[01:16.21] 'Cause I been lost tryna think of what I did to get here but I'm not a quitter

[01:19.21] Gotta get up, give it all I got or give up

[01:21.21] Spit on, shit on, stepped on, but kept going I'm tryna be headstrong

[01:23.96] But it feels like I slept on my neck wrong

[01:25.73] 'Cause you're moving onto the next, but is the respect gone?

[01:28.46] 'Cause someone told me that

[01:29.46] (Kings never die)

[01:38.21] Don't give me that sob story liar, don't preach to the choir

[01:41.21] You ain't never even had to reach in the fire to dig deep

[01:43.21] Nobody ever handed me shit in life, not even a flyer

[01:45.71] Wouldn't even take shit into consideration

[01:47.96] Obliterate anyone in the way

[01:49.46] I think I see why a lot of rappers get on these features and try to

[01:52.46] Show out on a track with me but it'd actually

[01:54.71] Have to be a fucking blowout to get me to retire

[01:56.71] Tell these new artists that kings never die

[01:58.46] I know shit has changed in this age, fuck a Twitter page

[02:00.71] Did it just say I've been upstaged?

[02:01.96] Why am I online? It's driving me crazy

[02:03.71] I'm riding shotgun tryna get a gauge

[02:05.71] On what's hot, but I'm not gonna' conform

[02:07.21] But as days pass in this shit

[02:08.71] And opinions sway, I can hear them say

[02:10.71] If I stay passionate maybe I can stay Jay miraculous

[02:12.46] Comeback as if I went away

[02:14.46] But detractors just say (so much) for the Renegade

[02:16.71] Someone's gonna make me blow my composure

[02:18.71] Here I go again, center stage and I feel like I'm in a cage

[02:21.21] (Some want a champion to fall I still wonder why I laugh at 'em

[02:24.21] 'Cause why care when I'm awesome?)

[02:25.46] Fuck what these cynics say

[02:26.71] (Just goes to show that when my back's against the wall

[02:29.46] And I'm under attack again, that I'll act as if I'm posted up)

[02:31.71] With this pent-up rage, 'cause all these plaques in my office

[02:33.96] On the floor stacked against the door

[02:36.71] Are they just metaphors for the odds of me comin' back again?

[02:39.46] 'Cause all the accomplishments, accolades, awards

[02:41.96] And trophies just don't mean jack anymore

[02:43.96] If I'm here today and gone tomorrow

[02:46.46] And I'm not gonna be

[02:47.21] Here to stay

[02:49.21] Even when I'm gone

[02:52.21] When I close my eyes

[02:54.96] Through the passage of time

[02:58.71] Kings never die

[02:59.46] I want it, I'm coming to get it

[03:00.46] So you son of a bitches don't duck you're gonna get Riddick Bowe'd

[03:01.96] Critics'll end up in critical

[03:03.46] Think your shit is dope all you're gonna get is smoked then

[03:05.21] And I ain't stopping 'till I'm on top again, all alone and on a throne

[03:07.71] Like a token of respect, or a homage poem, or an ode I've been owed

[03:10.96] Tossed in the air by my own arm, and launched so hard I broke my collarbone

[03:14.46] (And when it's my time to go, I'm still not leaving)

[03:17.97] Stop for no one, I don't know but I've been told an obstacle that

[03:21.21] Blocks your road, knock it over, time to go for that pot of gold, 'cause

[03:23.96] (They say kings never die

[03:25.96] Just ask Jam Master Jay, they

[03:27.96] Just grow wings and they fly, so

[03:29.21] Hands up, reach for the sky

[03:30.71] Try to hold up and prolong these moments

[03:32.71] 'Cause in a blink of an eye

[03:34.96] They'll be over)

[03:36.71] Tryna secure your legacy like Shakur and ensure

[03:38.71] Nobody's ever gonna be what you were

[03:41.21] So before you're leaving this Earth

[03:42.71] You want people to feel the fury of a pure evil cerebral berserk

[03:44.96] Deacon of words, syllable genius at work

[03:46.71] Plus I'm thinking that they're mistaking my kindness for weakness

[03:49.21] Kill 'em with meanness

[03:50.71] I went from powdered milk and Farina

[03:51.71] To flipping burgers on the grill for some peanuts

[03:52.96] From Gilbert's to arenas, call me Gilbert Arenas, still appeal to the dreamers

[03:55.71] I made it to the silver screen where Rocky's still what the theme is

[03:57.71] Khalil on the beat 'cause making the beat ain't the same

[03:59.96] Feeling to me as killing the beat is

[04:01.71] So fulfilling to me is what filling a seat is

[04:02.96] That sound, vomit, thirst and how common underground commons eat

[04:05.46] Outsider stomach growl, throbbing hunger

[04:07.71] Out-rhyming everyone, God just give me one shot

[04:10.71] I swear that I won't let you down

[04:11.96] I'ma be around forever, entertain even in the ground

[04:13.46] You ain't never ever gonna hear me say I ain't

[04:14.71] Here to stay

[04:18.98] Even when I'm gone

[04:21.96] When I close my eyes

[04:24.71] Through the passage of time

[04:28.46] Kings never die