Port Antonio
[00:22.17] Ride to it, ride to it
[00:25.10] Ride to it, ride to it
[00:28.01] Ride to it, ride to it
[00:30.93] Ride to it, ride to it, uh
[00:34.39] Ride to it, ride to it
[00:36.51] Ride to it, ride to it
[00:39.17] Ride to it, ride to it
[00:42.09] Ride to it, uh
[00:44.48] Young Jermaine walked the straight and narrow
[00:46.60] Minimum-wage jobs for dinero, but still my mind was on the zeros
[00:50.32] I fiend for the perks that was seen flippin' birds, so
[00:53.25] We was skippin' church, but my eyes was on the sparrows
[00:56.17] Niggas flippin' pies, spendin' thousands on apparel
[00:58.82] Shit, I wanna shine too, I want dimes too
[01:02.01] Jealous niggas wanna know just how my rhymes blew
[01:04.67] Mano y mano, I'm Bono, I'm you times two
[01:07.60] Now I'm bougie, I done outgrew the Fontainebleau
[01:10.26] But never forgot the spot where I developed my plot
[01:13.45] To dwell at the top, the Ville, where all my skeletons locked
[01:16.11] If I could do it all over, then I never would swap
[01:18.76] I've seen good, I've seen bad, had my melanin mocked
[01:21.95] I've seen lifelong friends turn to devilish opps
[01:24.61] I was Mike in red leather tryna tell him to stop
[01:26.98] You better beat it 'fore you see the heavy-metal get popped
[01:30.17] He was a mean-ass wing with a hell of a shot
[01:32.82] But if no team draft king, he gon' bet on the block
[01:35.74] He wanna ball till he fall or till the federals knock
[01:38.67] And sit his ass on a bench for movin' careless with rock
[01:41.32] You can't relate 'less your father was not around
[01:43.98] And your mother went out and found someone else and then brought them 'round
[01:46.64] And they salaries then combine, when they married, it brought you out
[01:49.57] Of that poverty, then you moved to a soft little part of town
[01:52.21] So that when you back in the hood, you feel awkward about it now (damn)
[01:55.15] And your confidence start to drown
[01:58.34] But the rappin' gave you some positive thoughts, so you jot 'em down
[02:02.59] You jot 'em down
[02:04.45] Ride to it, ride to it
[02:06.85] Ride to it, ride to it
[02:09.51] Ride to it, ride to it
[02:12.43] Ride to it, ride to it, uh
[02:15.09] Y'all niggas ain't stoppin' me
[02:18.01] Y'all niggas ain't stoppin' me
[02:20.93] Y'all niggas ain't stoppin' me
[02:23.85] Y'all niggas ain't stoppin' me
[02:26.51] Y'all niggas ain't stoppin' me
[02:29.45] Y'all niggas ain't stoppin' me
[02:32.37] Y'all niggas ain't stoppin' me
[02:36.89] Yeah, uh
[02:37.98] Benjamin Button, Cole flows reverse time
[02:40.64] To find deliveries good as mine, you gotta search primes
[02:43.30] I'm scalin' heights higher than birds can perch
[02:45.68] Tryin' to be something, hopin' that peace comes to my cursed mind
[02:48.87] One thing's for sure, that I've matured from my first rhyme
[02:51.79] I learned long ago, you can't please 'em all, and it hurts tryin'
[02:54.72] In this game, where all you've got is your name
[02:57.10] Like Durk, I'm smirkin' at niggas tryna besmirch mine
[03:00.32] Absurd times, where the fake get toted as wise
[03:03.25] I can see hate in both of your eyes but the third's blind
[03:06.17] So you search lines
[03:07.49] But you struggle, which explains the puzzled look on the dull face as the word finds
[03:11.48] I hate what rap's become, but like Do-Not-Disturb signs
[03:14.40] Can't knock it if I see it's 'bout the dough
[03:17.06] They instigate the fuckery because it's profitable
[03:19.45] But singin' stop the violence tunes when dudes in hospitals
[03:22.37] I pulled the plug because I've seen where that was 'bout to go
[03:25.29] They wanted blood, they wanted clicks to make they pockets grow
[03:28.21] They see this fire in my pen and think I'm dodgin' smoke
[03:31.14] I wouldn't have lost a battle, dawg, I woulda lost a bro
[03:33.79] I woulda gained a foe, and all for what? Just to attain some mo'
[03:36.98] Props from strangers that don't got a clue what I been aimin' for?
[03:39.92] Since the age of fourteen, Jermaine is no king
[03:42.31] If that means I gotta dig up dirt and pay the whole team
[03:45.23] Of algorithm-bot niggas just to sway the whole thing
[03:47.90] On social media, competin' for your favorable memes
[03:50.57] To be considered best or live and rest? The weight of both things
[03:53.78] I understand the thirst of bein' first that made 'em both swing
[03:56.43] Protecting legacies, so lines got crossed, perhaps regrettably
[04:00.15] My friends went to war, I walked away with all they blood on me
[04:02.31] Now some will discredit me, try wipe away my pedigree
[04:05.23] But, please, find a nigga out that's rappin' this incredibly, uh
[04:07.88] My dawg texted me, I'll share the words he said to me
[04:10.81] If you refuse to shoot the gun, don't mean the gun ain't deadly, uh
[04:13.74] I guess in that metaphor, hypothetically, the gun is me
[04:17.18] I text him back like: Guess a gun ain't what I'm tryna be, my nigga
[04:20.38] They strip me of my spot and now I'm finally free, my nigga
[04:23.32] They say I'm pickin' sides, ayy, don't you lie on me, my nigga
[04:26.24] Then start another war, ayy, Drake, you'll always be my nigga
[04:28.90] I ain't ashamed to say you did a lot for me, my nigga
[04:31.82] Fuck all the narratives
[04:33.42] Tappin' back into your magic pen is what's imperative
[04:36.10] Remindin' these folks why we do it, it's not for beefin'
[04:38.75] It's for speakin' our thoughts, pushin' ourselves, reachin' the charts
[04:41.68] Reachin' your minds, deep in your heart, screamin' to find
[04:44.60] Emotions to touch, somethin' inside to open you up
[04:47.52] Help you cope with the rough times and shit
[04:49.91] I'm sendin' love 'cause we ain't promised shit
[04:52.85] My nigga
[04:53.66] Y'all niggas ain't stoppin' me (damn)
[04:56.32] Y'all niggas ain't stoppin' me (y'all niggas)
[04:59.24] Y'all niggas ain't stoppin' me
[05:01.90] Y'all niggas ain't stoppin' me
[05:04.82] Y'all niggas ain't stoppin' me
[05:07.47] Y'all niggas ain't stoppin' me
[05:10.40] Y'all niggas ain't
