[Verse 2: Noname Gypsy]
[Transition: Chance The Rapper & Noname Gypsy]
[Verse 3: Chance The Rapper]
[Transition: Noname Gypsy (Chance The Rapper)]
[Verse 4: Noname Gypsy]
[Transition: Together]
[Verse 5: Chance The Rapper]
[Outro: Chance The Rapper (Noname Gypsy)]
[00:11.46]Sparring is training
[00:13.40]Chain snatching the slaves
[00:14.36]But a rap song is a match in a cave
[00:17.33]Dim lit, wet wick, wicked wrath in its way
[00:20.40]Drunk off of light, lies, laughing
[00:22.23]Claiming asylum while shying in shade
[00:24.39]I can't stay silent, I go violent when my violets is gray
[00:27.16]And my roses is black
[00:28.73]Fuck the pharaohs and pharisees, Moses is back
[00:31.39]I don't need to see a Sphinx to know they noses was black
[00:34.35]I don't know one temptation that had Otis' back
[00:37.37]Sparring is training this a jumping jack
[00:39.37]I'm the scariest jack in the pumpkin patch
[00:41.62]Float like my jumper wet, sting like a bumblebee
[00:44.75]I swing like a lumber jack, go back when I'm up at bat
[00:47.84]They tried to label me a non-rapper
[00:50.39]I'm an independent contractor
[00:52.48]Card cracker, sparring is training without the training wheels
[00:56.22]You made it, you made it, you made it, yeah, you made a deal
[00:58.94]You played it straight, hated, graduated, waited, waited
[01:02.36]You still a waiter still
[01:03.98]Mice will always find out ways to steal
[01:06.30]Picture me, fifth of Hennessy and the swisher sweet
[01:09.42]Fake identity, 'til a plug named Trinity shook me
[01:12.90]"Wake up, wake up" like remember me?
[01:15.43]Said one plus one make three, and you finna see
[01:18.35]You ain't as grown as you finna be
[01:20.95]You got them young nigga tendencies
[01:23.47]Sentimental energy
[01:24.49]I let the light in beside him, I stand like angel
[01:27.11]Sparring is training for an apathetic halo
[01:30.44]Apologetic, non religious, consequential fable
[01:33.28]Like good is good, the love in me is goodly or godly
[01:35.75]The Bible say mistakes is necessary
[01:38.74]So I Mississippi monologue to granny house
[01:40.99]My soloist is sold out to attentive God
[01:44.30]Cornbread on my table when I say my prayers
[01:47.30]On airs, to stairs where shadiness is time to rest or manifest
[01:51.00]Sparring is training, I know they think me bumblebee
[01:54.16]Afro-Americano Sunny D
[01:56.95]But bet I sting, no die
[01:59.54]Sparring is training
[02:01.37]Jacob wrestled with God, in the desert 'til he broke him
[02:04.39]And he blessed him and he rescued his heart
[02:06.44]I struggle with love, I juggle my loves
[02:08.59]I cuddle and coddle, ship wreckin' bottle, I huddle in hugs
[02:11.32]Sparring is training bra, Ramses watching raining frogs
[02:14.63]Jigga watching Damon, Damon watching Wayans Bros
[02:18.61]A tandem unicycle with two pilots in different maps
[02:21.83]You giving back?
[02:22.87](I'm giving back)
[02:23.70]Tit for tat
[02:24.88]Synagogue and bottle caps
[02:26.55]A body in the underpass says, where's my Jesus?
[02:28.31]Pledge allegiance to the money now
[02:30.69]We runnin down to kiddie parks where darker kids be casualty
[02:33.51]Like come with me, to the museum
[02:35.78]Excuse them, they know of what they do
[02:38.70]Sparring is training,don't let Denzel Training Day you
[02:40.70]Sensei could catch a fade too
[02:42.62]We be onnat elegant hella melanin
[02:45.27]Pelle Pelle's since they crayons and jelly pens
[02:48.80]And now you know Noname ain't never for none
[02:51.13](Ayo, you know Chano ain't never for none)
[02:53.89]And now you know Noname ain't never for none
[02:57.10](Ayo, you know Chano ain't never for none)
[02:59.95]Aha, and you don't stop
[03:03.69]Boom bap, and you don't stop
[03:06.10]I told you that was gonna be fun though