[00:02.00]Written By Statik Selektah & Joey
[00:02.50]BADA$$
[00:03.15]Mastered by Statik Selektah
[00:03.77]Mixed By Nastee & Statik Selektah
[00:04.46]Additional Bass Jake Bowman
[00:05.06]Additional Keys Daniel Mensch & Cas
[00:05.67]Weinbren
[00:06.34]Recorded At Cinematic Studios/The
[00:07.64]Cutting Room NYC
[00:08.79]Badmon representing
[00:09.98]Tell me is you ready is you really ready
[00:12.07]They ain't really ready they ain't never ready
[00:14.53]I was born ready now I'm coming heavy
[00:16.86]Now I'm coming heavy
[00:18.53]I hope you ready,
[00:19.73]cause its gon' be a real long time I'mma be around
[00:21.99]So make way through the crowd
[00:24.53]Swimming through a sea of people hope I don't drown
[00:27.78]Just trying to make waves with the sound
[00:29.91]When my s*it drop ***** turn it up loud
[00:31.93]And tune them other ****** out
[00:34.71]I'm the youngest ***** repping
[00:35.92]everytime I'm stepping out
[00:36.92]And if you step outside your face we
[00:38.34]pop up right in front of your house
[00:40.09]****** think because we conscious we don't really get it popping
[00:42.46]hey forgot we from the bottom
[00:45.06]They forgot we had to fight for every nickel, every dollar
[00:47.52]Before the money and the power
[00:49.93]You could ask my ***** Powers I've been putting in these hours
[00:52.79]Plotting domination now the whole world is ours
[00:55.19]Tell me why they hating, its cause of what I'm making
[00:57.67]And if you a little patient its gon' be what I'm taking
[00:59.89]They got me mistaken
[01:00.99]Critics try to box me
[01:02.45]I feel like Rocky when it come to paparazzi
[01:05.24]Somebody stop me, f*****g up my kamikaze
[01:07.20]I'm on my 47 s*it, like how could you not see
[01:10.08]Cause we dropping jewels I said we dropping jewels
[01:12.55]Temper rising cools prolly see me on the news
[01:14.98]Joey got the juice, finally got this ***** loose
[01:17.52]Now while I'm free to speak free my ***** Shmurda too
[01:19.98]I'm feeling like Victor Cruz a giant from New York
[01:22.60]I'm lacing up the boots then I'm going f*****g long
[01:25.05]So if you trying to score just pass it to me more
[01:27.42]Never dropping the ball, always raising the bar
[01:30.55]Man it's gon' be a real long time I'mma be around
[01:32.80]So make way through the crowd
[01:35.63]Swimming through a sea of people hope I don't drown
[01:38.30]Just trying to make waves with the sound
[01:40.51]When my s*it drop ***** turn it up loud
[01:42.82]And tune them other ****** out
[01:45.77]I'm the youngest ***** repping heavy for my city now
[01:48.42]All these others ****** thinking they from the south
[01:50.73]***** I'm the bomb even HOV said it
[01:52.33]Though I never signed to ROC and no I don't regret it
[01:54.77]You know I'm coming for the top you see me getting bigger
[01:57.16]How can you sign if you know you're tryna beat a *****
[01:59.76]When I made it to his office I was seventeen
[02:02.02]Like forty floors up I grew a pair of wings
[02:04.92]In that moment man I knew I could do anything
[02:07.38]Feeling like a young Simba can't wait to be a king
[02:09.82]And I never lost my hunger man I stayed hungry
[02:12.41]If we started talking numbers man they wouldn't love me
[02:14.92]Man I'd rather keep the peace but its getting ugly
[02:17.62]But **** it what I'm about to say is what they didn't want me
[02:19.92]60k first week for the Bada$$
[02:22.42]200k to this day I know you ****** mad
[02:25.11]With the 80/20 split my ***** do the math
[02:27.42]My ***** Kirk just outsold Troy Ave
[02:30.13]Now they sleep we 'bout to hit 'em with the NYCK next
[02:32.58]Got these ****** bread hurt, Limp Bizkit
[02:34.93]Its crunch time had to go and get his s*it wreck
[02:37.29]Got the ninjas on deck and the b*****s in check
[02:39.85]And that's a shot to anybody man I don't feel you
[02:42.48]Steezy told me to go hard and ****** ain't hear you
[02:44.89]I see the whole future clearer and I'm near it too
[02:47.50]And if you really break a leg,
[02:49.20]I hope they still will cheer (wheelchair) you
[02:50.86]Man its gon' be a real long time I'mma be around
[02:53.46]So make way through the crowd
[02:56.02]Swimming through a sea of people hope I don't drown
[02:58.68]Just trying to make waves with the sound
[03:00.87]When my s*it drop ***** turn it up loud
[03:03.49]And tune them other ****** out
[03:05.93]I'm the youngest ***** repping heavy for my city now
[03:08.45]Tell these other ****** I'm coming for the crown