vertical runners
produced by boi-1da and jahaan sweet

so if you knew me back in 2003
when i was still skinny and out of school just lounging with pete
before soundcloud it was soundclick just scrounging for beats 
we’d freestyle for hours til it was time to go eat
i would devour a pizza open sonic foundry and beast
3 tracks in 40 minutes. mix it then save it to c:\
i got hard drives my team don’t know about
i mean unknown amounts of rap videos i made that they didn’t see
if you ask me then who you thinks the greatest mc. 
there’s no changing in me 
i would look at you straight and say that it’s me. 
even people who hated me they were still able to see
i fucking hate rick but creatively i’m not as crazy as he

flash to 2018 we still changing the speed
yox is the illest out and now a whole generation agrees
i’m getting paper for my pen to paper i’m taking a fee!
but you can catch me in a cypher i’m never afraid of the free 
styling on these haters who challenge the team
who keep claiming they have all this work that i haven’t seen
you stay playing all these games running out of the steam
leaving you twitching in front of ur web cam rerouting your stream
man i don’t want fame anymore, i want bigger deposits
i wanna be rapping at 50 while i sit in a office 
eating chicken and sausage with a fly chick
splitting the crawfish after a massage
making money off a track as soon as i drop it

but this song: i just had to address some’n
so many people i know saying rick you need to say some'n. 
i was on my facebook and someone is claiming that he the best one. 
look this ain't a diss song that actually made me respect him.
i’m just getting pissed off that they discussin it this long
cuz if the fucking list doesn’t have us in it then it’s wrong. 
i could care less where my dinner is from
i love kid trunks but i'll still put a kid in a trunk
i think that it's time to share with u the mission of mine
as i travel you see the realism of life. i’m just thinking damn.
i'm just a jackie chan another chink in their mind. 
but when i kick a rhyme i switch em in a blink of an eye. 
you tripping if you keep thinking rick is just a regular guy. 
this rick from the yox. i’m different with everything that i show to them.
if we really trying to shake this asian prefix 
then why the fuck we keep placing ourselves in a manilla folder then?

fuck only asian rappers, i’m iller than all of them.
if you disagree dm email or call it in
imma murder this summer. 
me and john became vertical runners.
climbing on stage so you heard of the come up. 
these artists stay fishing they got hooks but what they reelin up?
i don’t care if they don’t feel us i don’t think that they real enough
making electronic money like diplo currently 
ox gang been tourin (torrent) like cryptocurrency

Nothing Hurts Anymore

Vertical Runners

Aspiring Poet & Hip-Hop Artist out of Northern Michigan. Half of The Coalition #thecoalegacy

(formerly "str33t music")
Educational resource for expanding you music library. My primary goal is to help under-represented music creators broaden their reach in the western market and beyond regardless of language or ethnicity. I will be combining my written and audio efforts through NARA (Not Another Asian Rap Article) that dives into the realm of calling it what it is,

Music recommendations HIGHLY encouraged.
Email: contact.str33tmusic@gmail.com

Fanpage account for Year of the Ox- JL & Lyricks. We will highlight not only music and special projects, but interviews as well.

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