The Ringer

Lyrics

Yeah (Illa)
 Yo, I'm just gonna write down my first thoughts
 And see where this takes me
 'Cause I feel like I wanna punch the world
 In the fuckin' face right now
 Yeah
 Let me explain just how to make greatness
 Straight out the gate, I'm 'bout to break it down
 Ain't no mistakes allowed, but make no mistake, I'm 'bout
 To rape the alphabet, I may raise some brows
 If I press the issue just to get the anger out (Brrr!)
 Full magazine could take Staples out
 Savage but ain't thinkin' 'bout no bank account
 But bitch, I'm off the chain like Kala Brown
 Motherfucker, shut the fuck up when I'm talkin', lil' bitch
 I'm sorry, wait, what's your talent? Oh, critiquin'
 My talent? Oh, bitch, I don't know who the fuck y'all are
 To give a sub-par bar or even have an opinion or view
 You mention me, millions of views, attention in news
 I mention you, lose-lose for me, win-win for you
 Billions of views, your ten cents are two
 Skim through the music to give shit reviews
 To get clicks, but bitch, you just lit the fuse
 Don't get misconstrued, business as us'
 Shit-list renewed, so get shit to do
 Or get dissed 'cause I just don't get
 What the fuck half the shit is that you're listenin' to
 Do you have any idea how much I hate this choppy flow
 Everyone copies though? Prob'ly no
 Get this fuckin' audio out my Audi, yo, adiós
 I can see why people like Lil Yachty, but not me though
 Not even dissin', it just ain't for me
 All I am simply is just an emcee
 Maybe Stan just isn't your cup of tea (Get it?)
 Maybe your cup's full of syrup and lean
 Maybe I need to stir up shit, preferably
 Shake the world up if it were up to me
 Paul wants me to chill, y'all want me to ill
 I should eat a pill, probably I will
 Old me killed the new me, watch him bleed to death
 I breathe on the mirror, I don't see my breath
 Possibly I'm dead, I must be possessed
 Like an evil spell, I'm E-V-I-L (Evil, spelled)
 Jam a Crest Whitestrip in the tip of my dick
 With an ice pick, stick it in a vise grip
 Hang it on a spike fence, bang it with a pipe wrench
 While I take my ball sack and flick it like a light switch
 Like Vice President Mike Pence
 Back up on my shit in a sidekick as I lay it on a spike strip
 These are things that I'd rather do than hear you on a mic
 Since nine tenths of your rhyme is about ice and
 Jesus Christ, man, how many times is
 Someone gonna fuck on my bitch? (Fuck my side chick!)
 You won't ever see Em icy
 But as cold as I get on the M-I-C
 I polarize shit, so the Thames might freeze
 And your skull might split like I bashed you upside it
 Bitch, I got the club on smash like a nightstick (Yeah)
 Turn down for what?
 I ain't loud enough, nah, turn the Valium up!
 'Cause I don't know how I'm gonna get your mouths to shut
 Now when it doesn't matter what caliber
 I spit at, I'll bet a hundred thousand bucks
 You'll turn around and just be like, man, how the fuck
 Sourpuss gonna get mad just 'cause his album sucks?
 And now he wants to take it out on us (Ooouuu)
 But last week, an ex-fan mailed me a copy
 Of The Mathers LP to tell me to study
 It'll help me get back to myself and she'll love me (Oooouuu)
 I mailed the bitch back and said if I did that
 I'd just be like everyone else in the fuckin' industry
 Especially an effing Recovery clone of me (NFing)
 So finger-bang, chicken wang, MGK, Igg' Azae'
 Lil Pump, Lil Xan imitate Lil Wayne
 I should aim at everybody in the game, pick a name
 I'm fed up with bein' humble
 And rumor is I'm hungry, I'm sure you heard rumblings
 I heard you wanna rumble like an empty stomach
 I heard your mumblin' but it's jumbled in mumbo-jumbo
 The era that I'm from will pummel you, that's what it's comin' to
 What the fuck you're gonna do when you run into it?
 I'm gonna crumble you and I'll take a number two
 And dump on you, if you ain't Joyner
 If you ain't Kendrick or Cole or Sean, then you're a goner
 I'm 'bout to bring it to anyone in this bitch who want it
 I guess when you walk into BK you expect a Whopper
 You can order a Quarter Pounder when you go to McDonald's
 But if you're lookin' to get a porterhouse you better go get Revival
 But y'all are actin' like I tried to serve you up a slider
 Maybe the vocals shoulda been auto-tuned
 And you woulda bought it
 But sayin' I no longer got it
 'Cause you missed a line and never caught it
 'Cause it went over your head
 Because you're too stupid to get it
 'Cause you're mentally retarded
 But pretend to be the smartest
 With your expertise and knowledge
 But you'll never be an artist
 And I'm harder on myself
 Than you could ever be regardless
 What I'll never be is flawless, all I'll ever be is honest
 Even when I'm gone they're gonna say I brought it
 Even when I hit my forties like a fuckin' alcoholic
 With a bottle full of malt liquor
 But I couldn't bottle this shit any longer
 The fact that I know that I'ma hit my bottom
 If I don't pull myself from the jaws of defeat and rise to my feet
 I don't see why y'all even started with me
 I get in beefs, my enemies die
 I don't cease fire 'til at least all are deceased
 I'm east side, never be caught slippin'
 Now you see why I don't sleep, not even a wink, I don't blink
 I don't doze off, I don't even nod to the beats
 I don't even close my fuckin' eyes when I sneeze
 Aw, man! That BET cypher was weak, it was garbage
 The Thing ain't even orange, oh my God, that's a reach!
 Shout to all my colorblind people
 Each and everyone of y'all, if you call a fire engine green
 Aquamarine, or you think water is pink
 Dawg, that's a date, looks like an olive to me
 Look, there's an apple, no, it's not, it's a peach
 So finger-bang, Pootie Tang
 Burger King, Gucci Gang, dookie, dang
 Charlamagne gonna hate anyway, doesn't matter what I say
 Give me Donkey of the Day
 What a way for 2018 to get underway
 But I'm gonna say everything that I wanna say
 Welcome to the slaughterhouse, bitch! (Yeah)
 Invite 'em in like a One A Day
 I'm not done (Preach!)
 'Cause I feel like the beast of burden
 That line in the sand, was it even worth it?
 'Cause the way I see people turning's
 Makin' it seem worthless, it's startin' to defeat the purpose
 I'm watchin' my fan base shrink to thirds
 And I was just tryin' to do the right thing, but word
 Has the court of public opinion reached a verdict
 Or still yet to be determined?
 'Cause I'm determined to be me, critiqued or worshipped
 But if I could go back, I'd at least reword it
 And say I empathize with the people this evil serpent
 Sold the dream to that he's deserted
 But I think it's workin'
 These verses are makin' him a wee bit nervous
 And he's too scurred to answer me with words
 'Cause he knows that he will lyrically get murdered
 But I know at least he's heard it
 'Cause Agent Orange just sent the Secret Service
 To meet in person to see if I really think of hurtin' him
 Or ask if I'm linked to terrorists
 I said, only when it comes to ink and lyricists
 But my beef is more media journalists
 (Hold up, hold up, hold up)
 I said my beef is more meaty, a journalist
 Can get a mouthful of flesh
 And yes, I mean eatin' a penis
 'Cause they been pannin' my album to death
 So I been givin' the media fingers
 Don't wanna turn this to a counseling sesh
 But they been puttin' me through the ringer
 So I ain't ironin' shit out with the press
 But I just took this beat to the cleaners
 
 Yeah (Illa)
 Yo, I'm just gonna write down my first thoughts
 And see where this takes me
 'Cause I feel like I wanna punch the world
 In the fuckin' face right now
 Yeah
 Let me explain just how to make greatness
 Straight out the gate, I'm 'bout to break it down
 Ain't no mistakes allowed, but make no mistake, I'm 'bout
 To rape the alphabet, I may raise some brows
 If I press the issue just to get the anger out (Brrr!)
 Full magazine could take Staples out
 Savage but ain't thinkin' 'bout no bank account
 But bitch, I'm off the chain like Kala Brown
 Motherfucker, shut the fuck up when I'm talkin', lil' bitch
 I'm sorry, wait, what's your talent? Oh, critiquin'
 My talent? Oh, bitch, I don't know who the fuck y'all are
 To give a sub-par bar or even have an opinion or view
 You mention me, millions of views, attention in news
 I mention you, lose-lose for me, win-win for you
 Billions of views, your ten cents are two
 Skim through the music to give shit reviews
 To get clicks, but bitch, you just lit the fuse
 Don't get misconstrued, business as us'
 Shit-list renewed, so get shit to do
 Or get dissed 'cause I just don't get
 What the fuck half the shit is that you're listenin' to
 Do you have any idea how much I hate this choppy flow
 Everyone copies though? Prob'ly no
 Get this fuckin' audio out my Audi, yo, adiós
 I can see why people like Lil Yachty, but not me though
 Not even dissin', it just ain't for me
 All I am simply is just an emcee
 Maybe Stan just isn't your cup of tea (Get it?)
 Maybe your cup's full of syrup and lean
 Maybe I need to stir up shit, preferably
 Shake the world up if it were up to me
 Paul wants me to chill, y'all want me to ill
 I should eat a pill, probably I will
 Old me killed the new me, watch him bleed to death
 I breathe on the mirror, I don't see my breath
 Possibly I'm dead, I must be possessed
 Like an evil spell, I'm E-V-I-L (Evil, spelled)
 Jam a Crest Whitestrip in the tip of my dick
 With an ice pick, stick it in a vise grip
 Hang it on a spike fence, bang it with a pipe wrench
 While I take my ball sack and flick it like a light switch
 Like Vice President Mike Pence
 Back up on my shit in a sidekick as I lay it on a spike strip
 These are things that I'd rather do than hear you on a mic
 Since nine tenths of your rhyme is about ice and
 Jesus Christ, man, how many times is
 Someone gonna fuck on my bitch? (Fuck my side chick!)
 You won't ever see Em icy
 But as cold as I get on the M-I-C
 I polarize shit, so the Thames might freeze
 And your skull might split like I bashed you upside it
 Bitch, I got the club on smash like a nightstick (Yeah)
 Turn down for what?
 I ain't loud enough, nah, turn the Valium up!
 'Cause I don't know how I'm gonna get your mouths to shut
 Now when it doesn't matter what caliber
 I spit at, I'll bet a hundred thousand bucks
 You'll turn around and just be like, man, how the fuck
 Sourpuss gonna get mad just 'cause his album sucks?
 And now he wants to take it out on us (Ooouuu)
 But last week, an ex-fan mailed me a copy
 Of The Mathers LP to tell me to study
 It'll help me get back to myself and she'll love me (Oooouuu)
 I mailed the bitch back and said if I did that
 I'd just be like everyone else in the fuckin' industry
 Especially an effing Recovery clone of me (NFing)
 So finger-bang, chicken wang, MGK, Igg' Azae'
 Lil Pump, Lil Xan imitate Lil Wayne
 I should aim at everybody in the game, pick a name
 I'm fed up with bein' humble
 And rumor is I'm hungry, I'm sure you heard rumblings
 I heard you wanna rumble like an empty stomach
 I heard your mumblin' but it's jumbled in mumbo-jumbo
 The era that I'm from will pummel you, that's what it's comin' to
 What the fuck you're gonna do when you run into it?
 I'm gonna crumble you and I'll take a number two
 And dump on you, if you ain't Joyner
 If you ain't Kendrick or Cole or Sean, then you're a goner
 I'm 'bout to bring it to anyone in this bitch who want it
 I guess when you walk into BK you expect a Whopper
 You can order a Quarter Pounder when you go to McDonald's
 But if you're lookin' to get a porterhouse you better go get Revival
 But y'all are actin' like I tried to serve you up a slider
 Maybe the vocals shoulda been auto-tuned
 And you woulda bought it
 But sayin' I no longer got it
 'Cause you missed a line and never caught it
 'Cause it went over your head
 Because you're too stupid to get it
 'Cause you're mentally retarded
 But pretend to be the smartest
 With your expertise and knowledge
 But you'll never be an artist
 And I'm harder on myself
 Than you could ever be regardless
 What I'll never be is flawless, all I'll ever be is honest
 Even when I'm gone they're gonna say I brought it
 Even when I hit my forties like a fuckin' alcoholic
 With a bottle full of malt liquor
 But I couldn't bottle this shit any longer
 The fact that I know that I'ma hit my bottom
 If I don't pull myself from the jaws of defeat and rise to my feet
 I don't see why y'all even started with me
 I get in beefs, my enemies die
 I don't cease fire 'til at least all are deceased
 I'm east side, never be caught slippin'
 Now you see why I don't sleep, not even a wink, I don't blink
 I don't doze off, I don't even nod to the beats
 I don't even close my fuckin' eyes when I sneeze
 Aw, man! That BET cypher was weak, it was garbage
 The Thing ain't even orange, oh my God, that's a reach!
 Shout to all my colorblind people
 Each and everyone of y'all, if you call a fire engine green
 Aquamarine, or you think water is pink
 Dawg, that's a date, looks like an olive to me
 Look, there's an apple, no, it's not, it's a peach
 So finger-bang, Pootie Tang
 Burger King, Gucci Gang, dookie, dang
 Charlamagne gonna hate anyway, doesn't matter what I say
 Give me Donkey of the Day
 What a way for 2018 to get underway
 But I'm gonna say everything that I wanna say
 Welcome to the slaughterhouse, bitch! (Yeah)
 Invite 'em in like a One A Day
 I'm not done (Preach!)
 'Cause I feel like the beast of burden
 That line in the sand, was it even worth it?
 'Cause the way I see people turning's
 Makin' it seem worthless, it's startin' to defeat the purpose
 I'm watchin' my fan base shrink to thirds
 And I was just tryin' to do the right thing, but word
 Has the court of public opinion reached a verdict
 Or still yet to be determined?
 'Cause I'm determined to be me, critiqued or worshipped
 But if I could go back, I'd at least reword it
 And say I empathize with the people this evil serpent
 Sold the dream to that he's deserted
 But I think it's workin'
 These verses are makin' him a wee bit nervous
 And he's too scurred to answer me with words
 'Cause he knows that he will lyrically get murdered
 But I know at least he's heard it
 'Cause Agent Orange just sent the Secret Service
 To meet in person to see if I really think of hurtin' him
 Or ask if I'm linked to terrorists
 I said, only when it comes to ink and lyricists
 But my beef is more media journalists
 (Hold up, hold up, hold up)
 I said my beef is more meaty, a journalist
 Can get a mouthful of flesh
 And yes, I mean eatin' a penis
 'Cause they been pannin' my album to death
 So I been givin' the media fingers
 Don't wanna turn this to a counseling sesh
 But they been puttin' me through the ringer
 So I ain't ironin' shit out with the press
 But I just took this beat to the cleaners
 

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05:37
Key
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Tempo
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