Can't start a renaissance takin' the path of least resistance / I go so far left with the pen, I shoulda been left handed / If God don't make mistakes, I blame it on poor plannin' / Like the meek inheritin' Earth and demandin' a King's ransom / Status quo's become so low standards are sub-standard / I'm raisin the bar so far you'll be in limbo standin' / Understand I'm entrancin' without a dance or sample / Ladies love lyrics and miracles do happen / Punchlines so deep, effects are delayed and long lastin' / so I'm on 34th Street waitin' on the reaction / Mastered mathematics, tore rat bastards to fractions / Half my life has been addition by subtraction / As a kid my favorite books were Choose Your Own Adventure / Learned less is lost to haste than it is to indecision / When it came time for college I couldn't settle with conviction / I sidestepped wide left and ended up in prison / Ridiculed for breakin' rules, I paid my toll for sinnin' / Flyin' down life's highway I almost died a villain / When I realized livin' in itself is a privilege / I repeated mistakes to make sure they weren't brilliant / Doubled up the stakes of the game I was winnin' / just so it would hold my motherfuckin' attention / The realist shit is what don't usually get mentioned / so I'm airin it all out, like openin' a soul's window / Introduced to Indo, became like a limo / that drove my thoughts in style from innocent to cynical / Started with a nickel, quickly became a cyclical / process of relievin' stress, that at best could be called mystical / At worst predictable, truth's somewhere in the middle / but I ain't ever been average, just mean in principle / Went from pledgin' allegiance to one nation indivisible / to seein' the ignorance in ever thinkin' we were invincible / Grew up in the spotlight, then I became invisible / but four is to one like the mental is to the physical / When I realized I had limitless potential / obstacles started to seem inconsequential, yo / It's the J-A-M-I-E, no I in team but there's an M and an E / Break it down, see my name contain all three / Me, myself, and I, the Holy Trinity / But blasphemy's in the past for me / I'm equivalent to a catastrophe / of epic proportions, that ain't reported by ABC / CNN, MTV, BET, or CBC / That means I'm devastatin', too explicit for TV / Very hard to read, appearances deceive / Can't judge a book by its cover or open each other and see / what we're made of, and yo they made us believe / all it took was hard work to achieve the American Dream / But the amount of work I've been puttin' in this bitch is obscene / and nightmares still haunt me, where's my Coretta Scott King / Ain't searchin' for a Queen, do me to the extreme / but I'm tired of the tricks these Court Jester's bring / Bars for days, like the jungle gyms where we played / Fell off in Fourth Grade and busted my face / That's the last time to this day anybody can place / the words bars, fallin' off, and my name in the same place / My haste brought me face to face with God's grace / Time and again, like a stopwatch in a race / Realness can't be recognized by fake, so I'ma make / a ski mask hashtag the new symbol of strength / I've perfected raw emotion, but that's an oxymoron / More raw the emotion less able you should be to control it / Let alone perfect it, but I'm such a perfectionist / Consistently able to fix shit that ain't broken / Hear the unspoken, see what ain't showin / Lose myself, but not in the music or the moment / In self loathin', and the search for atonement / Knowin' bein' lonely is better than bein hopeless / I focused on escapin', the blood in my veins frozen / Colder than four below and the winds of change are blowin / Been static too long now my flow is so dope it's / enough to set a motherfuckin' movement in motion