As It Is

[Pre-Hook]
Know your lane, hold it down
Either be fake or keep it real
This is art in different frames
So let it grow, leave it be
Lead by example or be the example
Get all you can handle or be a handful, yuh

[Bridge]
We all got a role (what's yours, uh)
We all got a chance (ayy, ayy)
This is what we do (you try it)
This is where we stand (we stand)
Some do it for the money (guap)
Some do it 'cause they can (we can)
Just show up or be shown out (get outta here)
'Cause you blow up or get shot down (yuh, yuh)

[Hook]
I'm gon' leave it (I'm gon' leave it)
A-S I-T I-S (leave it!)
I'm gon' leave it (I'm gon' leave it)
A-S I-T I-S (leave it, ayy!)
I'm gon' leave it (I'm gon' leave it)
A-S I-T I-S (leave it!)
I'm gon' leave it (I'm gon' leave it)
A-S I-T I-S (leave it, just leave it!)

[Verse 1]
Keep it how it is
Critique, but don't mistreat them 'cause they kids
Tweak the little things
Teach the fundaments'
Go against the grain, end up as the sieve
As you age, it drains, you're in disbelief
If you'd stayed the same, what would you achieve?
Look how far you've come, you're the one to beat
Once you turn the page nothings guaranteed, but
Ask and you'll receive
You be doin' stuff that don't make you at whole
I just burnt all of the bridges that come with a toll
Stirrin' up a theory that you're insecure
Tryna please everybody, but know it doesn't work
I got people tryna tug on the cape, uh
These followers are only givin' me praise, uh
Artist are bein' forced on display
What's the point of bein' a master, if you still a slave? (slave!)
You're measured by your talent not the numbers bein' counted, or the spot that some'll challenge, 'long as you can keep ya balance
I stay among the masses, you can watch me work my magic
Ain't no atlas, but I'm mapped inside a state that you can't fathom
On a level I won't settle for, sever from the ever 'norm
Tend to gain momentum
I prevent those who misuse the forum
From the get-go there were Ghettos building Egos, using stores
For the record, I make records recording what most ignore
Reapin' without no reward
Tied up scores I adjourn, I'm just tryna underscore I'm the calm before the, I'm the calm before the storm

[Monologue]
Gears can switch and we can run out of gas
At the end of it all, I got this lane no being can jaywalk to get across. However it goes down, everyone holds their own. So like or dislike at your volition, but people leave behind everything they've accomplished as a stepping stone into a new era
They die, but the music lives on and evolves

[Pre-Hook]
Know your lane, hold it down
Either be fake or keep it real
This is art in different frames
So let it grow, leave it be
Lead by example or be the example
Get all you can handle or be a handful

[Hook]
I'm gon' leave it (I'm gon' leave it)
A-S I-T I-S (leave it!)
I'm gon' leave it (I'm gon' leave it)
A-S I-T I-S (leave it, ayy!)
I'm gon' leave it (I'm gon' leave it)
A-S I-T I-S (leave it!)
I'm gon' leave it (I'm gon' leave it)
A-S I-T I-S (leave it, just leave it!)

[Verse 2]
Stayed inside the fray, I'm careful where I tread
Embed as of late, I'd leave y'all out for dead
Might not comprehend, that's the art of this business
Fight the odds and get even
Be the God of a legion
Defend the pioneers by the heir that I sit in
Be aware of my surroundings, don't consider givin' in to the audience
First, second or third
Any place I'm coming in, passion will emerge
I ain't here to tell a joke, but to point one out, a few
This is all I do, I'm here to join a track or two
I let 'em win 'til the air is thin
I am lookin' at a desert, it's been drier
Than it's ever been
Stage is set, now it's 'bout makin' a dent
I know what I'm up against and what to protect
Home is where the heart is at; that is how we connect
Out numbered by a deficit, the population's immense

[Outro]
A heartbeat controls everyone's life span
At the rate mine was goin', I'm alive by a transplant
No good deed I did was put on the record
My breath was taken away, no one was at my bedside while I faded each day
I had visits from people that were nothing but strangers
I went over the limit to survive inside containment
While time had gone by, the bedlam had seeped in
I let my surroundings have at me and now I'm here, healing
(In a heartbeat)