When you’re only at the top
Where do we go?
And I didn’t have to give up
And lose my soul
Maybe it’s time to live up
And lose control
We can never stop
We can never stop, no

Back in the day
When I represented Tech
Brooklyn
I played my tape red
Until my tape bled
Recording hot 97 on a clear cassette
Flex dropping bombs with my girl angie Martinez
Mom working nights
So I can read and write
Dad don’t want to be illegal
Memorize the bill of rights
My friends want to rock sick Mike J’s
And start fights
I wanted to start sick rhymes
And rock mics
So who am I?
It is hard to say
Do or die
Life after this life
Isn’t for me
To decide
You got to learn to fight the night
Forget your feelings cuz
You stop learning how to give it up
This is what having does
And I had it all
On top of the ladder
We’d rather had taken advantage
The damage landed
And then I had to fall
Reminding me that every step I take
I take with yall
Never saw the bottom
Cuzweonly standing tall

Whenyou’re only at the top
Where do we go?
And I didn’t have to give up
And lose my soul
Maybe it’s time to live up
And lose control
We can never stop
We can never stop, no

The rise and fall of a character is inevitable
not all the fruits you bear become edible, incredible
how half these mafkas go about it,
fold their hand, thinking the game is overcrowded

The media got us living vicariously through others
Trapped in, watching the game from under covers
Expose our insecurities, to tell us what we’re missin
Refuse to live my life around what everybody isn’t

Dreams of wood grain..plush leather in the ride
Revving ,clutch shifting…bad chick on the side
Do it for the money, cause the money buys the dream
But when you finally get it ,it ain’t always what it seems

Im by passing you haters… I’m headed to the top
Unstoppable, Full throttle , giving everything I got
Impossible is nothing, Ethan Hunt , I’m on a mission
Ambition for the vision trumps, no matter the condition


When you’re only at the top
Where do we go?
And I didn’t have to give up
And lose my soul
Maybe it’s time to live up
And lose control
We can never stop
We can never stop, no

I can see my destination but i just don't know what route ill take
like "a tribe called quest" i'ma "find a way"
wheni spread my wings, you can bet i'll take flight
throw me in a -fish tank- i would be that -great white- (shark)
try to sell us bullshit, the imagery of grandeur
asked a lot of questions that nobody wants to answer
i know you might be thinking that you prolly heard this mantra
i'm just being honest, hope you realize my candor
Promised you would know me, progress happens slowly
pain and perseverance got me moving past the old me
don't forget your roots, know your classics and your oldies
i am living proof, and im bringing all my homies
when all is said is done, i will be that number one
not afraid to fail and they wonder where the hungers from
when all is said is done, i will be that number one
im headed for the top, tell me what you're running from

Only at the top, only at the top
Only at the top, only at the top
Only at the top, only at the top
Can we bring the place down
We can never stop, we can never stop
We can never stop, we can never stop
We can never stop, we can never stop
We can never stop the boom bap of the sound.