The Audacity Of Dope

[Intro] Retropolitan Uh-huh Retropolitan True, indeed, huh [Verse] All three of 'em All being one in the same is all I need from 'em Word to everyone who remain and all it mean to them Know I stand tall with them you ever saw me with them Seated in box cars from the A to the Jeep Singing the same song but I got a cadence to me So when I sing along, know that I made it to be All that they sing for and all that's related to me Know above all what I come for is usually a one off Like, "Only one of y'all will get out, yo, why he brung y'all?" And my reply be bottom line, "Yo, where the front door?" That'll be the way that we out, and we now Should be in accord when I throw this caveat The one that would've cleared every shelf outta Camelot The one that explains the give and take of who handle rock And pulled up a chair for all of who couldn't stand to watch Like, fuck all the standing by Unless you involved or in the hearts of who can't oblige Knowing their hand is tied Talking the same song, hear how they plan to drive If they got a seat for y'all, then yo would you stand to ride? Follow me Same ones who would call corners came out the box with me Nothing else changed except the neighbors on top of me Swear that they ain't know how to get it until it got to me The hallway got all the allure 'til you buy property If y'all be on the side of me Then you can say the same about me if I'm what the topic be Word to how you got to me Grew up with real Huxtables dealing with real Carters Due to what they took but told you to still harbor And the way that it rides, I'm just taking what's mine But forgive me for tryna steal honor like Killmonger Praise due to the corner stores that I'm still part of And for me being able to come home to my real father All of this was said one way or another But when it's told hand in hand it replaces the stutters Applause for understanding the fate of the runners Because I wouldn't go home until I made all my jumpers Pardon me for seeing all of that with all three eyes While I was drawing a line and shooting off from behind The rims never had nets but it would all be fine The crib never saw it all, they was drawing the blinds Picture all I described, and add a Lex 450 double parked outside With Frank White at the wheel I took that, put it in back in light of the real It's all or nothing like if you was tryna write an appeal Moral being, you all got some audacity You top 20? I'm half that at least, and that's modest If we're being that honest then can't too many follow this Stage left, curtain drawn, Retropolitan [Outro] True indeed Do believe, true indeed Do believe we being that honest then can't too many follow this Stage left, curtain drawn, Retropolitan, yeah Yeah As we conclude Retropolitan SK PR It's a love letter and a wake up call to the city all All at one time All at one time Giveth and they take it away Said, giveth and they take it away Literally give it and then take it away One time for the city, though One time for how it did me, though Yeah [Interlude] He says to me, "Well, just so people see it and they know who I am Nobody knows who he is and so they see it—" No, it's not a matter of "So they know who I am—" So they see it. And after they see it, so what? It's a matter— It's for me, ii>It's not for nobody else to see I don't care— l don't care about nobody else seeing it Or the fact if they can read it or not It's for me and other graffiti writers, that we can read it These other people who don't write, they're excluded L don't care about them, you know? They don't matter to me. It's for us