09. Higher

[00:02.29] Yeah

[00:03.79] You know, I've been around for a while now

[00:07.53] Not sure if I have much left to prove

[00:11.05] Yeah I do, haha

[00:12.55] I look at me now I'm thinkin, "Damn"

[00:13.80] How proud of me I am

[00:15.30] What I did, it's nothin' to sneeze at

[00:17.05] Even if your allergies are bad

[00:18.55] I'm up in a balcony in France

[00:20.29] I look around, I see the fans

[00:21.53] How they surround me in the stands

[00:23.29] Probably could drown in a sea of hands

[00:25.04] They're hollerin', "Shady" ("Shady")

[00:26.52] Yellin' it out to me and that's what I mean when I say

[00:29.29] That one day someway, somehow, if I get a chance to get a crowd

[00:31.30] I'll flip it around and have a crowd give me the chants

[00:35.30] (I've done it all, man)

[00:36.53] But in actuality I haven't, yet

[00:38.78] Where am I supposed to go from here? (Woah-oh-oh) Hey

[00:42.06] Really I have no idea (Oh)

[00:45.01] All I know it's every time I think I hit my ceiling

[00:47.53] I go higher than I've ever fuckin' been (My only question is)

[00:51.81] Where am I supposed to go from here? (Woah-oh-oh) Hey

[00:55.29] Really I have no idea (Oh) (All I know is)

[00:58.05] All I know it's every time I think I hit my ceiling (Oh, I go)

[01:00.28] I go higher than I've ever fuckin' been

[01:04.03] Got no time for no haters in this bitch

[01:05.80] Or toleration for the shit

[01:07.53] But like medication, my dedication

[01:09.05] And the time it takes to do this shit

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

[01:13.31] What I mean it's maybe I have more patience than I'm able to admit

[01:16.80] Yeah, but I'm still mentally stable as a three-legged table in this bitch

[01:20.29] Fame was a switch but I was grateful to trade that shit for the trailer with the hitch

[01:23.28] Thought it would made me a raving lunatic

[01:25.54] But I made it through my situation, I hit pay dirt

[01:28.05] Now I get paper like a stapler in this bitch

[01:29.79] But just 'cause I made a little bit of change

[01:32.04] Don't mean I've changed a little bit

[01:33.54] Brain full of wit, dangerous, can't extinguish this English language when it's lit

[01:36.30] Now I'm just parading, you will get it Shady 'til I'm eighty-two

[01:39.05] I spit this crazy, even Dre, he knows I'ma blow

[01:41.53] Better get the handkerchief again, haha

[01:43.02] Where am I supposed to go from here? (Woah-oh-oh) Hey

[01:46.80] Really I have no idea (Oh)

[01:49.79] All I know it's every time I think I hit my ceiling

[01:52.28] I go higher than I've ever fuckin' been (Know I talk about this shit a lot, my only question is)

[01:57.80] Where am I supposed to go from here? (Woah-oh-oh) Hey

[01:59.54] Really I have no idea (Oh)

[02:02.52] All I know it's every time I think I hit my ceiling

[02:05.54] I go higher than I've ever fuckin' been

[02:08.53] Oh, now what am I gonna do?

[02:10.28] Can't nothing hold me, I'm on the loose

[02:11.30] Born a winner, damn it's so hard to lose

[02:13.04] I can do what they do when I'm tryin' to

[02:14.55] When my record flop, it still go through the roof

[02:16.30] This atmosphere's for a chosen few

[02:17.80] Who was on they grind makin' money moves

[02:19.53] And you ain't gon' get that if you watered-down

[02:21.29] You gotta take shots, spit a hundred proof (Check it out)

[02:23.06] Been in survival mode

[02:24.81] Since a five year old, it was I alone

[02:26.28] Since my trike was stole, spiral notebook and microphone

[02:28.53] But lookin' back how bad it was then

[02:30.55] If it hadn't been for the pad and the pen

[02:32.03] Addict mom and deadbeat dad

[02:33.53] I wouldn't have the savage within havin' to win

[02:35.05] Every single battle I'm in

[02:36.55] All I ever wanted was to be an MC

[02:38.30] Tediously I wrote obediently, believing in me

[02:40.80] EPMD must've had teachin' degrees

[02:42.29] Learned to defeat enemies with the ink, thinkin' of these rhymes

[02:44.04] Would be as easy as eatin'

[02:45.79] Graffiti would be like remedial readin' to me (Yeah)

[02:48.29] 'Til my last breath leave my lungs

[02:50.03] I'ma beat my drums (Yeah) for the streets I'm from (Yeah)

[02:51.54] The East side slums (Yeah), gotta remind 'em (Yeah)

[02:53.81] I take a foe out (Yeah), like fee-fi-fum

[02:54.79] You see my finger (What?), you see my thumb (What?)

[02:56.30] You see my fist follow each pipe bomb (What?)

[02:58.05] Here for the smoke but it's not the weed I want (What?)

[03:00.54] With this beat I brung for the beef I've come (Woo)

[03:01.29] But you better bring it if you wanna reply from

[03:02.80] 'Cause for you to be lyrically inclined, it'd be a steep climb up

[03:06.05] That'll be an uphill battle

[03:08.53] But I'm off kickin' feet in a recliner

[03:10.05] And I think I'm about to go out on a limb like a tree climber

[03:12.55] Time to push my ceiling higher 'cause