[ti:Snakes]
[ar:Joey Bada$$]
[al:1999]
[Intro]
[Verse 1: Joey BADA$$]
[Verse 2: Joey BADA$$]
[Verse 3: Joey BADA$$]
[00:02.58]Free Max B
[00:06.15]Owww (owwwwwww)
[00:10.99]Uh uh (uh uh) x3
[00:19.78]It's like (it's like)
[00:22.31]Sometimes I feel alienated
[00:25.27]Because I'm not up in the stadium playing or on the radio sayin'
[00:28.35]"Fuck 'em broads we don't love 'em we degradin' 'em!"
[00:31.28]But always find my self back at the bacchanalian
[00:33.94]Blood vessels poppin' out my craniums
[00:35.73]Niggas askin' when the tape gon' drop but I got nothin' to say to them
[00:39.50]Because I been slacking the skill, although my passion is real
[00:42.56]I'm too caught up catching a feel when I should be cashin' a mil
[00:45.31]It's something bout me being younger that affected my hunger
[00:48.31]Got older in number, realized I can't count on these hundreds
[00:50.97]To determine my elation
[00:53.07]Pursuit of happiness I keep pacin', these motherfuckas racist
[00:56.62]These ain't fair races, they just let the fear erase us
[00:59.46]Adopted by the slums, son of guns this is how they raised us
[01:02.53]Yo son we gotta raise up, don't let them just array us
[01:05.36]'Til we raisins in the sun
[01:06.77]So we gotta wake up
[01:08.41]Cause they always be behind in the cut
[01:10.84]Always in the skies watchin' stars when they up
[01:13.30]So don't you confide into the evil and corrupt
[01:16.21]This is urgent, Apex on the vertex, tonight we're serving serpents
[01:19.72]Cause they always be behind in the cut
[01:22.15]Always in the skies watchin' stars when they up
[01:24.69]So don't you confide into the evil and corrupt
[01:27.48]This is urgent
[01:29.98]Got a whole bunch of shit up on my plate now
[01:33.25]Thinkin' like in the man garden it's a snake now
[01:35.86]Cause I don't know who to believe or who to deceive
[01:38.61]Got me thinkin' I
[01:39.93]Sold my soul and ain't received a receipt but I won't proceed to retreat
[01:43.16]Jigga told me watch your throne seat
[01:45.18]And now I sees it and in respect to B.I.G., I gotta Cease it
[01:47.82]And I hope he see me cause these niggas don't want beef with my talents
[01:50.52]They ain't fit for this green, they just caesar salad
[01:53.53]You think because you avid they just gonna let you have it
[01:56.37]It's a lot to learn and that my nigga need to ask us
[01:59.14]It's the axis of the earth at the birth
[02:01.64]I found a new balance
[02:03.09]And now I walk on water just like I knew balance just like a relative
[02:06.08]Marijuana sedatives got me thinkin' I should put a bomb right where the senate is
[02:10.24]Cause they corruptin' the youth, we ain't inductin' the truth
[02:13.37]Lookin' at the president like yo it must be nothin' to you
[02:16.27]Cause they always be behind in the cut
[02:18.50]Always in the skies watchin' stars when they up
[02:21.31]So don't you confide into the evil and corrupt
[02:24.13]This is urgent, Apex on the vertex, tonight we're serving serpents
[02:27.73]Cause they always be behind in the cut
[02:30.02]Always in the skies watchin' stars when they up
[02:32.85]So don't you confide into the evil and corrupt
[02:35.66]This is urgent
[02:37.39]I passed the dutch to the left and it started to make sense
[02:40.86]It's funny how I see it more straight when I'm bent
[02:43.49]You've been warned on the risk it takes to take to sit on top
[02:47.19]Been on clock cause you could see that I been on watch
[02:49.83]Shit don't stop, 'til you make the sacrifices
[02:52.73]Trade in whats priceless to ices and devices
[02:55.77]When the light switch I shift like I'm typin'
[02:58.66]Livin' in the era where Christ is the crisis
[03:01.61]The lifeless in the trance actin like yo mans
[03:04.12]Bitch niggas only know that transactions is the plans
[03:06.84]But the mic is in my hands so I valor the booth
[03:09.64]The blacker the berry is the more sour the fruit
[03:12.21]They ejectin' us to make us cowards to the power of truth
[03:15.10]Became flowers from roots and now we just move in cahoots
[03:17.88]I move from the stoop and put my foot right down on the asphalt
[03:21.27]Every night I ask lord if this what I asked for
[03:24.10]Cause they always be behind in the cut
[03:26.85]Always in the skies watchin' stars when they up
[03:29.69]So don't you confide into the evil and corrupt
[03:32.37]This is urgent, Apex on the vertex, tonight we're serving serpents
[03:35.87]Cause they always be behind in the cut
[03:38.16]Always in the skies watchin' stars when they up
[03:40.89]So don't you confide into the evil and corrupt
[03:43.75]This is urgent
[03:47.42]Cause they always be behind in the cut
[03:49.58]Always in the skies watchin' stars when they up
[03:52.28]So don't you confide into the evil and corrupt
[03:55.14]This is urgent, Apex on the vertex, tonight we're serving serpents
[03:58.63]Cause they always be behind in the cut
[04:00.95]Always in the skies watchin' stars when they up
[04:03.57]So don't you confide into the evil and corrupt
[04:06.30]This is urgent