Higher

[00:00.70] "Higher"

[00:02.03] Yeah

[00:03.89] You know, I've been around for a while now

[00:07.08] Not sure if I have much left to prove

[00:11.05] Yeah I do, haha

[00:13.45] I look at me now, I'm thinkin, "Damn"

[00:14.52] How proud of me I am

[00:15.84] What I did is nothin' to sneeze at

[00:17.18] Even if your allergies are bad

[00:18.77] I'm up in a balcony in France

[00:20.37] I look around, I see the fans

[00:22.22] How they surround me in the stands

[00:23.81] Probably could drown in a sea of hands

[00:25.41] They're hollerin', "Shady" ("Shady")

[00:27.26] Yelling it out to me and that's what I mean when I say

[00:29.13] That one day someway, somehow, if I get the chance to get a crowd

[00:32.84] I'd flip it around and have a crowd give me the chants

[00:34.97] (I've done it all, man)

[00:36.82] But in actuality, I haven't, yet

[00:39.75] Where am I supposed to go from here? (Woah-oh-oh) Hey

[00:42.67] Really I have no idea (All)

[00:45.06] All I know is every time I think I hit my ceiling (Yeah, oh)

[00:47.98] I go higher than I've ever fuckin' been (My only question is)

[00:51.44] Where am I supposed to go from here? (Woah-oh-oh) Hey

[00:55.69] Really I have no idea (All I know is, all)

[00:57.81] All I know is every time I think I hit my ceiling (Yeah, oh)

[01:00.73] I go higher than I've ever fuckin' been

[01:04.19] Got no time for no haters in this bitch

[01:05.78] Or toleration for this shit

[01:07.38] But like medication, my dedication

[01:08.97] And the time it takes to do this shit

[01:10.56] Reminds me of how an overcrowded hospital waiting room'll get

[01:12.69] What I mean is maybe I have more patience (patients) than I'm able to admit

[01:16.94] Yeah, but I'm still mentally stable as a three-legged table in this bitch

[01:20.13] Fame was a switch, but I was grateful to trade this shit for the trailer with a hitch

[01:23.58] That it would make me a raving lunatic

[01:25.97] But I made it through my situation, I hit pay dirt

[01:28.36] Now I get paper like a stapler in this bitch

[01:30.22] But just 'cause I made a little bit of change

[01:32.08] Don't mean I've changed a little bit

[01:33.67] Brain full of wit, dangerous, can't extinguish this English language when it's lit

[01:37.13] And I'm just berating you with it, it's Shady 'til I'm eighty-two

[01:41.63] I'll spit this crazy, even Dre, he knows (nose) I'ma blow

[01:43.23] Better get the handkerchief again, haha

[01:45.36] Where am I supposed to go from here? (Woah-oh-oh) Hey

[01:47.48] Really I have no idea (All)

[01:49.61] All I know is every time I think I hit my ceiling (Yeah, oh)

[01:52.00] I go higher than I've ever fuckin' been (Know I talk about this shit a lot, my only question is)

[01:57.57] Where am I supposed to go from here? (Woah-oh-oh) Hey

[02:00.24] Really I have no idea (All I know is, all)

[02:02.36] All I know is every time I think I hit my ceiling (Yeah, oh)

[02:05.28] I go higher than I've ever fuckin' been

[02:08.47] Oh, now what am I gonna do?

[02:09.80] Can't nothing hold me, I'm on the loose

[02:11.40] Born a winner, damn, it's so hard to lose

[02:13.00] I can do it even when I'm tryin' to

[02:14.59] When my record flops, it still go through the roof

[02:16.18] This atmosphere's for a chosen few

[02:17.77] Who was on they grind makin' money moves

[02:19.64] And you ain't gon' get there if you watered-down

[02:21.23] You gotta take shots with a hundred proof (Check it out)

[02:23.09] Been in survival mode

[02:24.94] Since a five year old, it was I alone

[02:26.80] Since my trike was stole, spiral notebook and microphone

[02:29.19] But lookin' back how bad it was then

[02:31.32] If it hadn't been for the pad and the pen

[02:32.91] Addict mom and deadbeat dad

[02:34.50] I wouldn't have had the savage within havin' to win

[02:36.10] Every single battle I'm in

[02:37.69] All I ever wanted was to be an emcee

[02:38.75] Tediously I wrote obediently, believing in me

[02:40.35] EPMD must've had teachin' degrees

[02:42.21] Learned to defeat enemies with the ink, thinkin' of these rhymes

[02:44.87] Would be as Eazy as E

[02:46.46] And graffiti would be like remedial readin' to me (Yeah)

[02:48.58] 'Til my last breath leaves my lungs

[02:50.18] I'ma beat my drum (Yeah) for the streets I'm from (Yeah)

[02:52.05] The East side slums (Yeah), gotta remind 'em (Yeah)

[02:53.11] I'll take a foe out (Yeah), like fee-fi-fum

[02:54.71] You see my finger (What?), you see my thumb (What?)

[02:56.57] You see my fist, fuck a peace pipe, I'm (What?)

[02:58.16] Here for the smoke but it's not the weed I want (What?)

[02:59.75] With this beat I brung for the beef I've come (Woo)

[03:01.61] But you better bring it if you wanna reply from

[03:02.94] 'Cause for you to be lyrically inclined, it'd be a steep climb up

[03:05.60] That'll be an uphill battle

[03:06.67] But I'm up like your feet in a recliner

[03:09.32] And I think I'm about to go out on a limb like a tree climber

[03:12.51] Time to push my ceiling higher 'cause

[03:14.63] Where am I supposed to go from here? (Woah-oh-oh) Hey

[03:17.82] Really I have no idea (All)

[03:20.48] All I know is every time I think I hit my ceiling (Yeah, oh)

[03:22.87] I go higher than I've ever fuckin' been (For the last time, my only question is)

[03:26.06] Where am I supposed to go from here? (Woah-oh-oh) Hey

[03:30.57] Really I have no idea (All I know is, all)

[03:33.49] All I know is every time I think I hit my ceiling (Yeah, oh)

[03:35.88] I go higher than I've ever fuckin' been (Damn)