Kings never die

[00:00.73] Here to stay

[00:05.70] Even when I'm gone

[00:08.70] When I close my eyes

[00:09.96] Through the passage of time

[00:12.70] Kings never die

[00:25.20] I can hear the drummer drumming

[00:26.99] And the trumpets, someone's tryna summon someone, I know something's coming

[00:30.20] But I'm running from it to be standing at the summit

[00:32.70] And plummet, how come it wasn't what I thought it was, was it

[00:34.45] Too good to be true?

[00:36.69] Have nothing, get it all but too much of it then lose it again

[00:38.45] Did I swallow hallucinogens, 'cause if not, where the hell did it go?

[00:40.70] 'Cause here I sit in Lucifer’s den by the dutch oven just choosing to sin

[00:42.70] Even if it means I'm selling my soul, just to be the undisputed again

[00:48.21] Do whatever I gotta do just to win

[00:49.95] 'Cause I got this motherfucking cloud over my head

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

[00:53.95] Cracks in it, bet you morons didn't

[00:55.99] Think I'd be back, did ya?

[00:57.95] How 'bout that I’m somehow now back to the underdog

[00:59.95] But no matter how loud that I bark, this sport is something I never bow-wow'd at

[01:03.70] I complain about the game, I shout and I pout, it's a love-hate

[01:06.74] But I found out that I can move a mountain of doubt

[01:09.70] Even when you bitches are counting me out, and I appear to be down for the count

[01:12.97] Only time I ever been out and about is

[01:13.95] Driving around town with my fucking whereabouts in a doubt

[01:16.70] 'Cause I been lost tryna think of what I did to get here but I'm not a quitter

[01:18.45] Gotta get up, give it all I got or give up

[01:21.20] 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

[01:25.95] 'Cause you're moving onto the next, but is the respect gone?

[01:28.70] 'Cause someone told me that

[01:29.95] (Kings never die)

[01:38.71] Don't give me that sob story liar, don't preach to the choir

[01:39.20] You ain't never even had to reach in the fire to dig deep

[01:42.95] Nobody ever handed me shit in life, not even a flyer

[01:45.70] Wouldn't even take shit into consideration

[01:48.45] Obliterate anyone in the way

[01:49.94] I think I see why a lot of rappers get on these features and try to

[01:52.95] Show out on a track with me but it'd actually

[01:54.70] Have to be a fucking blowout to get me to retire

[01:57.20] Tell these new artists that kings never die

[01:58.70] I know shit has changed in this age, fuck a Twitter page

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

[02:02.45] Why am I online? It's driving me crazy

[02:03.70] I'm riding shotgun tryna get a gauge

[02:05.95] On what's hot, but I'm not gonna' conform

[02:07.70] But as days pass in this shit

[02:09.45] And opinions sway, I can hear them say

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

[02:13.20] Comeback as if I went away

[02:14.95] But detractors just say (so much) for the Renegade

[02:17.45] Someone's gonna make me blow my composure

[02:19.20] Here I go again, center stage and I feel like I'm in a cage

[02:20.96] (Some want a champion to fall I still wonder why I laugh at 'em

[02:23.21] 'Cause why care when I'm awesome?)

[02:25.20] Fuck what these cynics say

[02:26.95] (Just goes to show that when my back's against the wall

[02:29.19] And I'm under attack again, that I'll act as if I'm posted up)

[02:31.45] With this pent-up rage, 'cause all these plaques in my office

[02:33.95] On the floor stacked against the door

[02:36.45] Are they just metaphors for the odds of me comin' back again?

[02:39.22] 'Cause all the accomplishments, accolades, awards

[02:41.21] And trophies just don't mean jack anymore

[02:43.20] If I'm here today and gone tomorrow

[02:45.45] And I'm not gonna be

[02:46.70] Here to stay

[02:49.95] Even when I'm gone

[02:52.20] When I close my eyes

[02:54.95] Through the passage of time

[02:58.74] Kings never die

[03:01.20] I want it, I'm coming to get it

[03:01.70] So you son of a bitches don't duck you’re gonna get Riddick Bowe’d

[03:02.70] Critics'll end up in critical

[03:03.70] Think your shit is dope all you're gonna get is smoked then

[03:04.95] And I ain't stopping 'till I'm on top again, all alone and on a throne

[03:08.69] Like a token of respect, or a homage poem, or an ode I've been owed

[03:10.95] Tossed in the air by my own arm, and launched so hard I broke my collarbone

[03:14.20] (And when it's my time to go, I'm still not leaving)

[03:18.20] Stop for no one, I don't know but I've been told an obstacle that

[03:21.20] Blocks your road, knock it over, time to go for that pot of gold, 'cause

[03:24.95] (They say kings never die

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

[03:27.95] Just grow wings and they fly, so

[03:29.70] Hands up, reach for the sky

[03:31.45] Try to hold up and prolong these moments

[03:33.45] 'Cause in a blink of an eye

[03:35.20] They'll be over)

[03:36.95] Tryna secure your legacy like Shakur and ensure

[03:39.44] Nobody's ever gonna be what you were

[03:41.20] So before you're leaving this Earth

[03:42.96] You want people to feel the fury of a pure evil cerebral berserk

[03:45.20] Deacon of words, syllable genius at work

[03:46.96] Plus I'm thinking that they're mistaking my kindness for weakness

[03:50.20] Kill 'em with meanness

[03:51.45] I went from powdered milk and Farina

[03:54.21] To flipping burgers on the grill for some peanuts

[03:56.98] From Gilbert's to arenas, call me Gilbert Arenas, still appeal to the dreamers

[03:58.96] I made it to the silver screen where Rocky's still what the theme is

[04:01.20] Khalil on the beat 'cause making the beat ain’t the same

[04:03.95] Feeling to me as killing the beat is

[04:04.95] So fulfilling to me is what filling a seat is

[04:06.45] That sound, vomit, thirst and how common underground commons eat

[04:07.46] Outsider stomach growl, throbbing hunger

[04:09.69] Out-rhyming everyone, God just give me one shot

[04:11.70] I swear that I won't let you down

[04:12.44] I'ma be around forever, entertain even in the ground

[04:14.20] You ain't never ever gonna hear me say I ain't

[04:15.95] Here to stay

[04:18.70] Even when I'm gone

[04:21.70] When I close my eyes

[04:24.69] Through the passage of time

[04:28.95] Kings never die