Like an entrée
I'm best served first
Like a sound wave
I'll make myself heard
Like an eagle shoots through the sky I'll soar

I'm breaking in I'm coming out
I've pushed aside all qualms and doubt
The world is gonna know my name

This is my sweat
These are my tears
Watch me as I'm facing all my fears
This is my story
These are my words
Proving things they never thought I could
This is my night
Soak in the moment
Watch it fly by
Play in slow motion
Making all my dreams come true this is
My debut

I'm breaking free
From anxiety
Myself and me
Can do anything
I'll make it all the way if I just believe

Nothing can hold me down
I'll get back up
Ain't gonna force my frown
My smile's my luck
There's no limit to what I can achieve

I'm breaking in I'm coming out
I've pushed aside all qualms and doubt
The world is gonna know my name

I've been waiting all my life
Been carving my own journey
I've finally arrived
Hello world it's me

LAND OF THE GRITTY

INTRO
Ya'll don't get it, no, this is our house
we ain't playin no games

VERSE 1
Been down counted all of my blessings,
life lessons game on still stressing.
No guessing never let them see you sweat man,
my depression smiles my confession.
Daily testing I'm flexing my muscle
for the win no in I hustle,
grind hard take a loss what's that
bases loaded, two strikes, swinging my bat.
Boom ping ting run & tell that,
Winner's Circle gritty whole team on my back.
We can't lose, chant that chant, we can't lose, chant that chant,
we can't lose, yep bet that.
(We can't lose, chant that chant, we can't lose, chant that chant,
we can't lose, yep bet that)
All black, game fact, off track,
we own and y'all wack, team Spirit! Get 'em

CHORUS (2X)
Welcome to the land of the gritty
This is my house we're shuttin them all down
This is my house we're shuttin them all down
This is my house we're shuttin them all down
Welcome to the land of the gritty
Showing suckers no pity
Showing suckers no pity
Showing suckers no pity

VERSE 2
Break my focus, eyes on the prize,
competitors fear they see no lies in my eyes.
Me try know I do, wall up, wall down, run through, ka boom!
Look who stepped in the room,
MVP everybody know me,
highest points scored on every cellphone screen,
nothing but the T-O-P for me.
I, Hi-5 oh, so live, my stride, I glide, slip slide,
run, dive, collide, four more yards till the touchdown line.
Defense up, they're all fence off,
God I hit him hard they playing too soft,
we playing football, man I think they playing golf
we can't lose while I walk my walk.

CHORUS (2X)

BRIDGE
Welcome to the Jungle I'm a panther not a kitty,
only one rule here survival of the gritty.
See that on my back whole damn city,
we can't lose, no time for the tripping.
Squeezing, flexing, fingertips gripping,
drool and sweat is the only thing dripping,
this is my house, ya'll need my permission
My rules, there he go boys get 'em!
Ya'll don't get it
y'all came to lose we came to win,
cuz this here this is our house
and we ain't playing no games

CHORUS (2X)

BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY

INTRO
From the rooftops
To the city blocks
We livin proof
That we can't & we won't stop
Let's keep it movin
Show & prove that we already dropped
I'd like to take this opportunity
To thank the whole community
For keepin us together in the same spot
Yo in the dark night
We see the bright lights
& we can rock right
(We keep the game tight)
We represent the element that gave us true sight

CHORUS
Bright lights, big city
It's gonna lift you higher and higher
When the world has got you down
City's gonna lift you higher and higher

VERSE 1
Lights flash blast past do the math
We building up beginning squad
Illuminate the path
Hit the street feel the concrete
Underneath your feet
And we runnin like there's only seconds left
Feel the breath
Let's connect reach out mad respect
I can't believe how far we raised
From Dirty blocks & dark hallways
Opposite of tenements
We livin in the top percent
Of hustlin their dreams
Livin way above our means
Now we formulate the team
Hit em like a lazer beam
Infinite abilities
Flowin like Pheidippides
Outside of parentheses
Genius in facilities
Our options are infinity
Founded independently
The path is undertaken
By the underestimated
Can you feel it yeah we made it
To the top we elevated
We don't stop & we created
In a new stream a new team
Shine like the ever present presence
Of the spotlight
(The light beams)

CHORUS

VERSE 2
Smash perception ain't no question
You're the best of them
I hope that the rest of them
Gettin all this oxygen (its medicine)
A catalyst of power people
Comin from the underground
Many styles all the citizens
From all around the planet ascending in a way that you can never take for granted
(It's a piece of pace a past of place)
I pass the praise the pastor makes
The timing of the time it takes
To raise up all the youth
That's the proof of the positivity & true humility
Passed on these progressions
In the cyphers & the sessions
True knowledge comes from everyone
& everything surrounding
We pounding up the bricks
& in our footsteps is evidence of providence
The sky scrapes takes a little building at a time
Now you over-stand the rhyme
We can all together climb
You get yours & I get mine
Never been a better time
To come together (each of us can teach one)
Never been a better time
I think I see the sign

CHORUS

OUTRO
Keep your head raised
As your mind stays
High above the fray
When you need to get up & stay up
Just nod your head & meditate
On this verbal word play
It's like every single day
We don't stop
We rock hip hop
On every single block
Let's get together now & raise it to the top

Chorus:
They can't hold me down
No matter what they throw at me
It's only shackles in this land of opportunity
I vow to overthrow all of their schemes
Third eye open, everything is not what it seems
They can't hold me down
No matter what they throw at me
Emptied the clip before I reached my dreams
Stay woke, everything is not what it seems, what it seems

Coded language
For years been able to maintain it
Expect us to be on our knees because the chains are vanquished
But if I take a knee, I'm sensing frustration
All the demonstrations in the south like my moves are calculated
Resist the system, Jim Crow no more feeling symptoms
Fearing for your life today but back then you could just whip them
Respect all leadership silences my criticism
I love my fellow man, I just wanna shake the ecosystem

CHORUS

Black man, black man
Gotta turn off body cam
Summarizing life span

Right story, I'm in a jam
Inanimate object, desk work is the price to pay
Plant the drugs on his body, he probably sell it anyway
Feeling faint, this activity holds my day to day
Land of the free home of the raised but it's been delayed
Spiritual lips, we shall overcome but I'm feeling fazed
Signed endearing sincerely in the blood of the slaves

CHORUS

I pledge allegiance to the flag
Red, white, and blue longs for me in a body bag
Wall building over bridges, disposable brown children
Immigrants aren't illegal if you were a pilgrim
Sweet land of liberty, it's bitter to the core
Marching for freedom but my feet are feeling sore
I know there's more

CHORUS

Chorus:
If you really want it
show 'em where your heart is
see if you can push it past the limit
show 'em what you're made of
if you think your game tough
let me see you push it past the limit
Push it past the limit

I push it further than the rest so they call me the champ
I'm kicking past my last breath so that makes me a vamp-
Pyre I'm on fire
With sweat and blood for survival
I'm wired not getting tired and flying straight for the final
wavy like tidal outlasting all of your idols
don't test me I might go psycho
eliminate all my rivals
swear on The Bible I'm ready to take the title the king to take his rightful place await my arrival
here's what separates the men from the boys
I'm pushing it past the limits
you're still sitting making noise

CHORUS

I never let the dust settle 'fore I start again
I'm so relentless I won't settle 'less it's for the win
fight with honor prove I'm worthy like the olden times
nevermind, show no mercy like I'm Cobra Kai enemies stand in my way best be ready to die I'm on a higher plane of vision like my 3rd eye that means I read between the lines
and I'm gone before you realize whoa
now you're frozen like you're paralyzed
tell the rest that I've arrived

CHORUS

Yea the Sun is rising
it's right over the horizon
it's all about the timing
and the drive to not stop climbing climbing
I'm never going to stop
until I reach the top
all you lesser men are probably all gonna drop cause my skill is unmatched
I ain't even scratch the surface
stand back watch me step into my purpose

CHORUS

She looking good
got all the things that I want
she misunderstood
Cause she get everything that she wants
so they think she's mean
Cause she strut around like a Queen
I want to bow down at her feet
but when I get nearer I feel the heat
I'm warming up
Just a little touch and I guarantee
she going to take you to the 3rd degree

CHORUS:
I call her fire girl
cause she's hot
I call her fire girl
cause she burn the spot
she's a fire girl
make sure you learn
don't get too close to her
or you might get burned

She looking fly
got everything that you need
No she ain't shy she
she gonna rev it up to full speed
she like it fast
she like the wind going through her hair
she all mine I'm trying to share
but when she lit up I don't have a prayer
she warming up
Just a little touch and I guarantee
she going to take you to the 3rd degree

She burning up
I tried to warn you
She burning up
It's getting warmer
She burning up
I tried to warn you
When this girl get goin she heat it up like a sauna

CHORUS:
We don't back down, finger on the trigger
We don't back down, pushing back the pressure
We don't back down, ready for whatever you got
We rising up taking that top spot

Eyes on the prize, competition got the butterflies
rising up to Goliaths of any size
get bruised by the 100 yard stare, the eyes of a killer
the chill is in the air, and you're provoking gorillas

Grind time, no words, not even stones and sticks
hustle with muscle that could break bones and bricks
fire in my heart, putting competition on the ground
from the bottom now we coming for the crown

CHORUS

No hesitation, no debating or negotiation
no caving in, the bottom of our hearts that we're scraping
hunting for the next kill, forget how you feel
we ain't nipping at your heels, we hungry for the next meal

Fighting tooth and nail, no definition for quit
hitting hard, like a demolition team to your bricks
coming up from the dirt, pressing knuckles in the ground
from the bottom now we coming for the crown

There comes a time
To step out and stretch
Reach yourself, gotta teach yourself
To get ready for what comes next

Get in line
Don't wanna miss the ride
Put the street lights on till the dark is gone
And get ready for the prize

Keep the door open
Get the fire lit
Everybody's hoping
This is finally it

CHORUS:
The time is now x8

There comes a time
You know there's gotta be more
Mix it around, don't let it bring you down
We've all been there before

Never let nobody try to take your train off track
Never let it phase you keep on going don't look back

Eyes look up
Gotta watch for signs
Set your mind on the finish line
You never wanna miss your chance to shine

Keep the door open
Get the fire lit
Everybody's hoping
This is finally it

The time is now

The odds they stack up high and fast
When the clouds go dark and the deluge comes

Get tossed get turned goes bad to worse
Gonna fill our hearts, gonna beat them drums

You and me we're building a love where nothing can get in
We're sticking together no we're never going down with the ship

LET THE RAIN COME DOWN
LET THE STORMS POUND
IF ALL THE DAMS BREAK, WE'LL BE SAFE
WATERTIGHT
GONNA RIDE IT OUT
GONNA MAKE IT COUNT
WHEN THE LEVELS RISE WE'LL BE ALRIGHT CUZ WE'RE
WATERTIGHT
WATERTIGHT
WATERTIGHT
WHEN THE LEVELS RISE WE'LL BE ALRIGHT
WATERTIGHT

Our minds they thirst and we know what we're worth
As long as hearts keep beating and we have our breath

We're not afraid of the challenges we face
It's the faith we're keeping, we'll fight to the death

You and me we're building a love where nothing can get in
We're sticking together no we're never going down with the ship....

We can endure whatever comes
We will not be undone

I GOT TO HAVE THAT

Chorus:
I got to have that – I got to have that
I got to have that – I got to have that
Get me Gucci get me Prada
I like Dolce and Gabanna
It's exotic so erotic (My exotic is erotic)
I get everything I wanna
The rich come to play
On the Champs-Élysées
Fly Paris to LA
In Versace Shades
Chorus:
I got to have that – I got to have that
I got to have that – I got to have that
Got a nasty little itch
Boy your filthy stinkin' rich
Ridin' shotgun in your plane
Getting' loose on fine champagne
I'm a super sonic rider
I want you to take me higher
I'm Nirvana, million dollar in your wallet yea
Give it to me – I love that bling bling bling bling
Give it to me – yea I want it
CHORUS

The Real Thing

Verse

I don't wanna take from anybody else
What I get from you
You've been talking about leaving
And there's nothing more I can do

I'll give you all I can
More than any other
Anything you want me to

It's time to make a change
Show you I'm the one
There's no denying what I'd do for you

Bridge

Don't give away a life time
It's a love that you won't find with another
Won't you be mine, oh baby

Chorus

Tell me that you wont do that again
It's just temptation
Tell me that you always understand
This is the real thing

Give It Up

Verse

It's the animal inside me
I'm so hungry for you
I wanna look you up and lay you down, girl
It's just a matter of time

Before I move without hesitation, baby
Give yourself to me
You're everything I've been anticipating, baby

So give it up girl
Just give it up now

Chorus

I'm running overtime when you're around
My body in overdrive just thinking about it
I'm running overtime when you're around
My body in overdrive just thinking about it

Verse

You've got to give me all you can girl
Take a lesson from me
Don't let the pressure get you down girl
Do what comes naturally

You've got to move without hesitation, baby
Give yourself to me
You're everything I've been anticipating, baby
So give it up girl
Just give it up now

So give it up girl
Just give it up now

Chorus

I'm running overtime when you're around
My body in overdrive just thinking about it
I'm running overtime when you're around
My body in overdrive just thinking about it

ONE TWO

INTRO
Drop it

CHORUS
On a roll Ima go til they drop me (Ima go)
The life we livin' like a program and they watching (the life we livin')
Toe to toe I don't fold for nobody (toe to toe)
My heart is frozen chasing goals we playin hockey (my heart is frozen)
One two bodies hit the ground
One two gotta get it now
One two gotta fight it til the finish
We gone always follow thru and hit like
Lightning in the ending
Hit like lightning

VERSE 1
We throwing punches in bunches
Said that I'ma give it to you know you don't want it
Everybody know I came from nothing to something
Put a little time in Money come in abundance
So ain't no frontin'
You know we got the blueprint we doing it wit a strategy
We shootin' for the moon but I root for the people after me
doing what we do ain't no losing We seen some tragedy
When we got into it they threw everything they had at me

PRE-CHORUS 1
I don't back down I stand up and fight it (2X)
Get the lighter stand on up n ignite it
So bring the fire raise it up when the night hit

You see we strikin'!

CHORUS

VERSE 2
Drop another bomb Ima problem don't even detonate
Kaboom
Me n the crew just stepped in the room
Hit whoever's left soon as they mess up n move
Losing all direction but got perfectionist views
On the road to the riches I get it I hit a bump or two
All these people keep jabbing at me I ain't know what to do
Came up they ain't laughing I'm happy and I been comfortable
Started in the back n my passion put me in front of you

PRE-CHORUS 2
One direction we ain't slowing it down
Karma catchin' up it's going around
Whoever stepping up we throwing em out
Applyin' pressure so they know what we about

CHORUS (2X)

INVINCIBLE

VERSE 1
Impact, my arms packin cannons
Want the smoke, get fire from a dragon
Clashing, the last one standing
Get knocked down y'all are trash cans

Hit hard, cracking cinder blocks
Hard to block, technique unorthodox
Kick like a whirlwind, feel the drift
Uppercut the gut, feel the lift

Move like a centipede, no armor
Equip to hit quicker and harder
My mind is a blade that's sharper
Turn masters into grasshoppers

PRECHORUS
turn masters into grasshoppers
can't block this, can't stop this

CHORUS
Invincible (Invincible)
I'm invincible (I'm invincible)
Killer with casual strikes
And nerves of ice, you better think twice

Invincible (Invincible)
I'm invincible (i'm invincible)
Unpredictable technique
Pack heat in these fists
Get battered and beat

VERSE 2
Turn doubters into cowards
Overpower, tower over bouncers
Party crashing, collision smashing
Bones cracking, time for action

Straight up and down, get sized up
Beat down brows, swell your eyes up
Tiger palm strike, who get liver
Hit pressure points like tranquilizer

Dodge and duck, still get stuck
Throw hands like bricks that hit like trucks
Slip and dip, be like water
Turn masters into grasshoppers

PRECHORUS
(Turn masters into grasshoppers
Can't block this, can't stop this)

CHORUS

BRIDGE
Relentless, never ease up
Hit me, wake the beast up
What's a frying pan to a teacup
Crushed with the slightest touch

Brush you off like dust
Might just erupt and bust
You're gonna need a miracle
Stepping up against the invincible

CHORUS 1

CHORUS 2
Invincible (Invincible)
I'm invincible (Can't stop this)
Killer with casual strikes
And nerves of ice, you better think twice

Invincible (Invincible)
I'm invincible (i'm invincible)
Unpredictable technique
Pack heat in these fists
Get battered and beat
(Pack heat in these fists
Get battered and beat)

WE WON'T BE DENIED

CHORUS
No matter who's on the other side
We will not divide
On a roll can't break our stride
We won't be denied
None succeed but many have tried
Married to the game made it my bride
Whatever it takes know I'm gon' rid
And I won't stop 'til I'm satisfied/

VERSE 1
We pull up and we let 'em have it
They talking smoke but we don't want the static
Opportunity bet I grab it
Ain't gotta think it's automatic
We flipped the script it's acrobatic
We running thangs so diplomatic
Count it up it's mathematics
My life a movie too cinematic
Winning streak, nowhere near a peak
Quiet when I speak don't wanna hear a peep
We want it all, now we in too deep
We paid our dues and the price was steep
Is your heart still tough when times get rough?
Would you lay it all down? Do you want it bad enough?
When the pressure build up the pipes filled up
When it's all going bad would you give up?
We got it bad and there ain't no cure
You confident but we ain't so sure
Even when intentions pure
Still fall prey to the devil's lure

CHORUS (2X)

VERSE 2
Can't break us apart break us apart
Break us apart, break us apart, no
So don't get me started
Get me started, get me started, whoa
You don't wanna test your vest with us
This is big boy talk eat your vegetables
See me I get it jumping on the regular
Phone stay ringing jumping off the cellular (ah)
Wanna know how I do it
But they don't know who I am
When I'm down to my last
How I come back again
They can't believe their own eyes
Rather believe their own lies
I chose to improvise
New low my old highs
I'm headed for it that's no lies
Headfirst like nose dives
Reasons why they do despise
Couldn't tell ya' won't even try

CHORUS (2X)

KNOCKEM DOWN (CLEAN)

VERSE 1
Fresh start now thatʼs major
Think about it thatʼs gangster
Got my own crew no thank ya
Stacking up chips like wrangler
I done rode with the best in the west
Broke bread with the best in the west
Deal jagged with the best in the west
I am the runner up guess whatʼs next
Looking through my lenses
X x-ray vision
Fake friends pretending
Like they mess with me
I am ending your envy
This my beginning
Travel like the speed of lightning
When I'm reciting
Hahahahaha
I told yʼall warm up
I'm feeling like the greatest

CHORUS
Iʼm feeling like the greatest
Got haters cause I made it
my motivation is patience
creating what I made it
They screaming loud
they screaming loud
they screaming loud
I knockem down
I knockem down
they screaming loud
they screaming loud
I knockem down
I knockem down
I got patience
Iʼm really feeling like the greatest

VERSE 2
Jump in the coupe I'm gone
Fresh out the booth I'm gone
Feeling like Gray Poupon
All up in my zone
Writing to this song
Sipping on Patron
They thought that I was gone
Pop out guess whoʼs home
KNOCKEM DOWN (CLEAN)

Iʼm trending I'm mending
Together your ending
Iʼm Kidding Iʼm kidding
Iʼm friendly Iʼm Bentley
Iʼm living this life as a legend
Sometimes they call me the reverend
Guiding his people to heaven
Blessed by the best no stressing
Iʼm living my life to the fullest and you better know that
You grabbing your camera Iʼm posing you taken a Kodak

CHORUS

VERSE 3
No sleep I am like
Row the boat
You stop
I still Row the boat
Knowing I can go some more
Charged up like a charger roll
Knowing I am in gutter mode
123 like butter rolls
Knockout you canʼt go no more
Rock-a-bye baby on the floor
You want to be the man
But Iʼm going to be that man
Cause greater is I am
And I am where I stand
I am living by his plan
I plan to be the man
cause I am gonna see it see it see it through until the end

CHORUS

___________________________

KNOCKEM DOWN (EXPLICIT)

VERSE 1
Fresh start now thatʼs major
Think about it thatʼs gangster
Got my own crew no thank ya
Stacking up chips like wrangler
I done rode with the best in the west
Broke bread with the best in the west
Deal fucked by the best in the west
I am the runner up guess whatʼs next
Looking through my lenses
X x-ray vision
Fake friends pretending
Like they fuck with me
I am ending your envy
This my beginning
Travel like the speed of lightning
When I'm reciting
Hahahahaha
I told yʼall warm up
I'm feeling like the greatest

CHORUS
Iʼm feeling like the greatest
Got haters cause I made it
my motivation is patience
creating what I made it
They screaming loud
they screaming loud
they screaming loud
I knockem down
I knockem down
they screaming loud
they screaming loud
I knockem down
I knockem down
I got patience
Iʼm really feeling like the greatest

VERSE 2
Jump in the coupe I'm gone
Fresh out the booth I'm gone
Feeling like Gray Poupon
All up in my zone
Writing to this song
Sipping on Patron
They thought that I was gone
Pop out guess whoʼs home
Iʼm trending I'm mending
Together your ending
Iʼm Kidding Iʼm kidding
Iʼm friendly Iʼm Bentley
Iʼm living this life as a legend
Sometimes they call me the reverend
Guiding his people to heaven
Blessed by the best no stressing
Iʼm living my life to the fullest and you better know that
You grabbing your camera iʼm posing you taken a Kodak

CHORUS

VERSE 3
No sleep I am like
Row the boat
You stop
I still Row the boat
Knowing I can go some more
Charged up like a charger roll
Knowing I am in gutter mode
123 like butter rolls
Knockout you canʼt go no more
Rock-a-bye baby on the floor
You want to be the man
But Iʼm going to be that man
Cause greater is I am
And I am where I stand
I am living by his plan
I plan to be the man
cause I am gonna see it see it see it through until the end

CHORUS

ELEVATE

VERSE 1

I see you shake it, shake it
You really make it, make it
No need to fake it, fake it anymore

I want to take it, take it
No one can break it, break it
It's time to elevate it

CHORUS 1

We're moving close to the edge
And never look back again
We are standing right where we belong
Elevate

VERSE 2
I see you shake it, shake it
You really make it, make it
No need to fake it, fake it anymore

It's time to take it higher
And jump into the fire
This thing that we created
It's time to elevate it

CHORUS 1

We're moving close to the edge
And never look back again
We are standing right where we belong
Elevate

REFRAIN

I've waited all this time
Afraid I'd lose my mind
I've waited all this time
Now you can be mine

OUTRO

It's time to elevate it

STEP RIGHT

VERSE 1
Step out like you feel it
Step out into the light
Step up like you mean it
Step up, step out, step right

Step on out your comfort zone
Step up where you can see
Step into the great unknown
Step right into me

CHORUS
Step steady, step right
Step up, show your stuff
Gotta make sure that you get enough
Step steady, step right
Step out with your love
Are you ready to step
Are you ready to strut

VERSE 2
Step out like you feel it
Step out into the light
Step up like you mean it
Step up, step out, step right

Step into what speaks to you
Whatever calls your name
Step right up and fill your cup
Step into your fame

CHORUS