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The Bank

  1. ///Verse 1 \\\
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  3. [.](Loop if the beat ends)
  4. I came up where the cold was heavy on the windowpane
  5. Every conversation had a doublemeaning, nothing plain
  6. I learned to speak in riddles 'cause the riddles kept me sane
  7. The kind of tongue that swings two ways, two doors inside the brain
  8. I read the thing your saying and the thing you didnt say
  9. The gap between your words is where I learned to navigate
  10. I built a house of language where the walls articulate
  11. The architectures pressure tested, crumbling in debate
  12. These rappers pour foundations out of hype they cant inflate
  13. I dig beneath the surface and I find the counterfeit weight
  14. Im not above the culture Im the thing the culture ate
  15. And spit back out with structure, now Im standing at the gate
  16. The meta isnt posture its the only honest take
  17. Im rapping about rapping 'cause the whole craft is at stake
  18. The industrys a tightrope and theyre handing me the rake
  19. Im using it like compass finding signal through the fake
  20. Every bar I drop has got a grounding beneath the floor
  21. Im not the loudest in the room but Im the one they listen for
  22. The sharpest things the bar you never feel until its yours
  23. I dont arrive to play the game I come to keep the score
  24.  
  25. ///Verse 2 \\\
  26. They say the game evolved Id argue it devolved
  27. a thousand songs that sound like one, the patterns getting old
  28. The complexity got traded for a template made of gold
  29. They autocomplete the passion and the passions getting cold
  30. I write the bar and let the bar decide what it will hold
  31. The meaning opens slow it blooms when you sit in the cold
  32. They building brands, Im building language neither bought nor sold
  33. Im in the scripture of the cipher while they scroll and scroll
  34. Let me get specific I dont do the vague approach
  35. I watched them move the goalposts every time they felt encroached
  36. The ones who claim the throne are usually the ones who need the coast
  37. I need the center, where the pressures real and self imposed
  38. These battle rappers dress the wound Im asking how it closed
  39. These conscious rappers build the crown Im asking who exposed
  40. The gap between the ego and the truth thats what I wrote
  41. Im not the hero in this story and Im not the ghost
  42. Im something in the middle that they dont have words to quote
  43. I pour the bar like concrete let it cure before I float
  44. The critics write the eulogy before they read the notes
  45. Im not a show Im what the silence says between the quotes
  46.  
  47. ///Verse 3 \\\
  48. Im not the child of rage I came through the watching
  49. Through cataloguing everything the eye would keep on clocking
  50. The way a neighborhood decays the way the clocks stop locking
  51. The way a man becomes a myth the myth begins with mocking
  52. I been the subject and the author both at once its shocking
  53. How different every story gets depending who is walking
  54. I wrote the verse about the block before I left the block
  55. I wrote the verse about the clock before I learned to stop
  56. The retrospective hits different when the wound is still hot
  57. Im pulling double duty Im the surgeon and the shot
  58. And if you think thats layered, wait until Im not
  59. These rappers giving you the weather Im giving you the plot
  60. Im not above the anger I just learned to aim it right
  61. You point it at the mirror, itll teach you how to fight
  62. I broke apart the self and put the pieces back in sight
  63. The bars are just the evidence the verdict lives in light
  64. The thing about this craft is that it never gives you cover
  65. Every lines a deposition, every verse another
  66. Session on the stand and Im the witness and the author
  67. Testifying under oath to something deeper than the roster
  68.  
  69. ///Verse 4 \\\
  70. The system is a sentence and they punctuate with prisons
  71. The grammar of the gavel drops the period on the vision
  72. I been studying the syntax how they structure the decision
  73. How the language of the law becomes the surgical incision
  74. Every verdict is a verb it acts upon the noun
  75. The noun is always someone who was born beneath the crown
  76. They teach you how to conjugate your silence, swallow down
  77. The ones who speak the loudest always get the mark not gown
  78. Im moving through the metaphors I cant afford to drown
  79. I map the exits every single time before I enter town
  80. The chess is always moving I been watching every piece
  81. I played the rook, the bishop even practiced as the priest
  82. I learned that every label is just clothing for the beast
  83. You name the thing, you own the thing the naming doesnt cease
  84. These rappers claim theyre kings but havent earned a single crease
  85. In the crown theyre wearing it was borrowed from the lease
  86. Ive been alive inside this craft long enough to see
  87. The only thing worth building is the thing that lets you be
  88. And being isnt granted its extracted from the seams
  89. of every compromise you never made thats what it means
  90.  
  91. ///Verse 5 \\\
  92. I had a conversation with the ceiling at midnight
  93. Where neither side was wrong and neither side was right
  94. I been the contradiction living comfortable in the light
  95. I preach about the darkness 'cause the dark is what gave me sight
  96. Im not a saint I catalogued my failures in the verse
  97. Laid them out like evidence so everybody heard the worst
  98. The bravery isnt courage its the knowledge of the curse
  99. That everything you bury has a way of getting there first
  100. So I put it in the open in the bar, in the line
  101. Made it into something so it couldnt make me blind
  102. You call it art, I call it therapy same design
  103. The difference is the audience is watching me unwind
  104. I been the type to think about the ending in the start
  105. The exit plans embedded in the center of the art
  106. Im building and Im falling Im collapsing with the heart
  107. simultaneously and thats not tragedy thats art
  108. These rappers show the highlight Im handing you the reel
  109. The uncut version where the feelings almost too real
  110. Im comfortable uncomfortable thats part of the deal
  111. The wounds the whole curriculum Im teaching you to feel
  112.  
  113. ///Verse 6 \\\
  114. I started this in cold and Im concluding with the same
  115. Everything Ive written is a letter signed in flame
  116. You reading this like scripture but I wasnt playing games
  117. The bars are self referential I been burning through the frame
  118. I said Im rapping about rapping now the poem eats itself
  119. I said Im building language now the language builds the shelf
  120. That holds the books that hold the bars that held the things I felt
  121. Every feeling was a card inside the hand I was dealt
  122. I played every suit and every rank without the help
  123. Im not above the table, Im not swinging below the belt
  124. Im at the edge of everything, a foot above the blank
  125. Page I started with I wrote the ocean Im the bank
  126. Six verses deep and every verse was watching every other
  127. Every bar a sibling the whole thing is a structure
  128. Aware of its own making call it something further
  129. than rap Id call it proof of life signed past the border
  130. The door I leave unlocked the handle feels the same
  131. In every hand that grabs it I designed it just that way
  132. I didnt build a monument I built a place to stay
  133. I wrote it once the room stays open every day

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