Life Sentences (feat. Krizz Kaliko, Joey Cool & Gee Watts) - Tech N9ne

One nine seventy-four was the year mommy and daddy had created a monster The funny looking kid from the suburbs And refurbished genius cause nobody wants ta Cook up a musical recipe left it to me So I'ma have to give it what I got left of me 'Cause if I left it up to (ya-'all) Most of ya'll would probably drop the (ba-all) I be raping these records lately, and ya'll ain't trying You say celibate, but I ain't buying No we can't baby baby That crazy world maybe maybe And don't be caring they hate me And if you staring it maybe-be-be Blinding, cause I'm a supernova, I'm shining The tippy-top is where I'm residing So if I gotta Rescue Ranger it, picture painter it Whoops! I left my stain in it (I AM!) Genius! Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Genius! Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh (I am!) Genius! Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh (Don't you know my nigga) Genius! Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh (Don't you know my nigga) Take this session, as a blessing His confession, keep 'em guessing He's the best in, his profession He's professin', learn the lesson IF e equals mc (squared) I'm an MC (squared) No comparison (stare) I'ma therapist Dare you to listen Now pay attention How can I mention, your music paralysis Beckon 'em, (Come here!) Lyrically I'm checkin' 'em Tellin' 'em (Get over here!) Way too far too left on 'em The best since my conception Put ya antennas in my direction! Give me an inch and a lead and it's over I've been a sidekick, now i'm taking over Never believed that a team, me could lead 'em Now they salute when they see 'em (I AM!) Genius! Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Genius! Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh (I am!) Genius! Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh (Don't you know my nigga) Genius! Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh (Don't you know my nigga) I've been different all my life for a reason Waiting to attack in my season And I'ma be here, never leavin' This is the reason I'm breathing Take this session, as a blessing His confession, keep 'em guessing He's the best in, his profession He's professin', learn the lesson Genius! Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh Genius! Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh (I am!) Genius! Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh (Don't you know my nigga) Genius! Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh (Don't you know my nigga)

I don't even see any one of us changin The more I wish for, the more stays the same If everybody did me right it'd be amazing I pray about it, feels like it's in vein I got a big stage to play for, really know what I came for I'm too big to be ignored, thank God I'm still employed Tattoos say love me, but I think it don't So I pour Hennessey down my throat, to forget about it I don't really know how to be real, no I keep burning this candle at both ends, can't handle it What am I to do, you can't help me, it's a big FU Cause I keep wishing for more, can't be ignored Too real for TV, I can't say no more What am I to do, no you owe me B-I-G F-U If I get up from here, you better run, you better run If I get up from this chair, you better move, you better run Now I'm the only one out here that's crazy Walk a mile in my shoes, you'd feel the same I go through this life with a big chip on my shoulder If you ever stepped on me, you made me that way I got a big stage to play for, really know what I came for I'm too big to be ignored, thank God I'm still employed Tattoos say love me, but I think it don't So I pour Hennessey down my throat, to forget about it I don't really know how to be real, no I keep burning this candle at both ends, can't handle it What am I to do, you can't help me, it's a big fuck you Cause I keep wishing for more, can't be ignored Too real for TV, I can't say no more I forgive what you do, no you wronged me B-I-G F-U If I get up from here, you better run, you better run If I get up from this chair, you better move, you better run They tell me it's about the way that I done made Understand the booty you and I have ate See I party, cause my heart aches I don't really know how to be real, no I keep burning this candle at both ends, can't handle it What am I to do, you can't help me, it's a big FU Cause I keep wishing for more, can't be ignored Too real for TV, I can't say no more I forgive what you do, no you wronged me B-I-G F-U If I get up from here, you better run, you better run If I get up from this chair, you better move, you better run

And sometimes I I don't, I don't feel good Not physically, but like ment... mentally ...Mentally It's like I lose myself, like I'm not Krizz anymore like ... Unstable It seems like I would've fixed it But I've been gone for way too long Put a band-aid on it to fix it But I've been barely hanging on If this is hell, then I need help So dark it's like I never see the sun It's like I'm dreaming, but feels so real And I can't be the only one Unstable! Give me a reason Cause I can't stop, been thinkin' 'bout leaving I'm so unstable, and I need help Cause I can't do it by myself Unstable! Give me a reason Cause I can't stop, been thinkin' 'bout leaving I'm so unstable, and I need God Cause by myself its just too hard So unstable Now I'm back on my coocoo medicine, it's better then Feeling like I'd rather be in heaven if it never end Either that or added soon to a padded room Wish I could come back up in the womb, if there was any room Unbirth me, this Earth hurts me Said I'm beserk, not a single person heard me Up and down, like working out and doing a Bur-pee If life's a beach, then can we at least go surfing (Okay) My scruples are gone (Ah-Huh) I done been around a Soo-Woo group, brains are noodle soup Pain got me jumping through these hoops That's why I'm jumping back up in this booth So I can figure it out and get it out Wanna get rid of it so I gotta let it out I'm still breathing but feeling completely Unstable! Give me a reason Cause I can't stop, been thinkin' 'bout leaving I'm so unstable, and I need help Cause I can't do it by myself Unstable! Give me a reason Cause I can't stop, been thinkin' 'bout leaving I'm so unstable, and I need God Cause by myself its just too hard Make it up, out of it, battle it, take a hit Gotta get out of it before it gets malignant I'm digging my own grave, and being my own slave I figure it's gon' take a miracle one day To get it up off me, it's killing me softly The feeling is awfully, like jittering from coffee Panic disorder, got me thinking it's over Can't be feeling this torture, but it's fully a scorcher Kali Baby, may be crazy since the day that he was born But if he raised in three days, maybe he can get me through this storm Unstable! Give me a reason Cause I can't stop, been thinkin' 'bout leaving I'm so unstable, and I need help Cause I can't do it by myself Unstable! Give me a reason Cause I can't stop, been thinkin' 'bout leaving I'm so unstable, and I need God Cause by myself its just too hard

Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, oh Welcome to the motherfucking show I go by the name of T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E Yeah! T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E For short, you can call me N9na! T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E For short, you can call me N9na! T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E Yeah! I been a killer in the game when I first put The pen to the pad like your first day out N9ne be a thriller wit' the thang when I spurt Suck 'em in with the gab in a verse they shout Like when all the people at the church play Crouch When you're pornographic and the Kirk spray out On a workday couch and divert they spouse at the house My residue on her birthday blouse! What I hear out here is not stunnin' Sound like y'all disregarded what Biggie and Pac brung in But me I been rippin' shows havin' the thots summoned When I took my dick out of the equation Yo they stopped comin'! 'Bout ta flow tonight Am I gonna be spitting wickedness? Sho' ya right! Vulgar like Dolemite not runnin' fo' the light Poltergeist, roll the dice You're gonna find I'm the business when I hold the mic Know the fright, N9cian out wrap you chicken's Qdoba like Vive la Tech, N9na the vet Everyone knowin' that he so ballsy Diva ya get, eager ta let All of us hit because we so saucy Deeper the press, the weaker ya set They cannot fathom how we so Maude Khalifah the best Peak of the nest That is the reason why people call me T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E Yeah! T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E For short, you can call me N9na! T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E For short, you can call me N9na! T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E Yeah! Ain't no way you get around it There's no taking away my seat I'm chosen, right hand on my crotch It'll let you know ain't nothing weak I'm holding snakes and the bats around my neck They be like my flows I keep 'em frozen Chopping away you wack ass rappers N9na be leaving 'em decomposing I can demolish all of 'em, that's my sales pitch One monkey done stopped the show, I'm from the Zou, I can smell shit They wanna get violent 'cause their ladies really want my male stick But I never cooperate with a thot to mate so you fail bitch Superhero to boost the ego I eat up any rapper like I do chorizo I'm taking what I got and give it to the Migos To woo the people get through to Ebro Superpowers I'm possessing it Tech is if nothin' written on my check is a deficit Dumping diction down a dungeon is a definite Rock the red on my red and I'm reppin' it Got a problem with it blood, there is the bait We soldiers living in this country and well aware of your hate This country from the jump ain't nothing but terror mistake So I think that hat would've been a good thing if it said Make America great, my name is T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E Yeah! T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E For short, you can call me N9na! T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E For short, you can call me N9na! T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E T-E-C-H-N-9-N-E Yeah! Yeah N9na, you tell 'em, you sell 'em Real shit, ill spit, mill ticks, to deal with, let's go Ay, oh, ay, oh, ay, oh, ay, oh Welcome to the motherfucking show

Huh Okay, got it Kill 'em Searched maps when I started to burst raps 1985, that's when I first snapped Decades before they birthed apps I was giving niggas, what did we call it back then? Dirt naps But nowadays they still singing our praise Know how to raise a lot of hell up or else your crowd'll fade Devour naysayers hating try'na set a cloud ablaze My route'll stay electro lit and Kali's my Powerade And together we get paid in full (that's right) For the cheddar, we big raging bulls And it'll get Haitian cruel, meddling with pay and jewels Enemies sit, laid in pools Hit 'em with a quick blazing tool He said he wasn't a fan of us Coming at me with a camera See me become a stammera 'Cause I am the one with the stamina I got the fully, I'm 'bout to be bully from KCMO and the Canada You are the work of a janitor And I'm really coming to damage ya Nobody wanna be showed up They send me one verse and they hold up I send 'em my verse then they go buss Another verse after mine, it's a stole cut 'Cause they go nuts when a pro clutch Microphones givin' no fucks 'Cause I'm dope plus in my flow trust I got fa' sho' guts, they get ate like a Po' Russ From Jackstack, the gat's back When I'm out my town, I get my Aventus right at Saks That smell and my riches will get your bitches' hat macked Bosses take losses when they cross this black cat And that's facts (done) Don't nobody want none 'cause (I can make you outdone) Really wanna flow with the gun, you niggas are just (done) When I'm doing it for fun, yo (I can make you outdone) Doubt from when you slouched, what's the outcome? (Done) When I go left and I'm speaking in tongues (I can make you outdone) Ayy, yatafawaq ealayha (done) Technician and independent number one (I can make you outdone) You know the vibes, nigga No drums, I still rock that bitch The industry shunned me but I got that stitch (just one) Eminem, Wayne, Kendrick and Pac's rap pick Jahseh, Joyner, and Logic too so stop that shit Acting like you don't see me in the conversation Of the greatest, I never got a nomination 'Cause you hated, you calling me an abomination When it was domination, when you played it How a nigga feeling outdone when you get him on a label with ya Get his clout sprung up the louse hung up your mouth guns at your picture Now ain't that a kick in the sack? When I saw it was fixing to snap On a Gathering mission to pack him out but Travis Told us keep bicking it back So I let it go when I shoulda beheaded it bro 'Cause I put him on a pedestal as an incredible I know he regret it so 'Cause the bread it goes dead, it sit low as your credit score Man, I'm so (done) Now I'm biting my thumbs 'cause (I can make you outdone) Calling Kevin Wendell Crumb will never stop this beast They know when I spit speech (I can make you outdone) Shit gets deep My talent gives some rappers shivers and it should (yes sir) 'Cause I kill it with some of the best spitters and it's good (that's right) Guessing my sketching, gets 'em stressing They go left and feel threatened Something like police 'round niggas in the hood (yeah) White and black, mostly white though (that's right) With hundreds of years with beef, ain't no lipo (no) The problem is no face to face, just Skype, yo (bitch) That's so cowardly, kinda like they did Iso No conversation, just left him for doing a song with me All the ties from the other side was gone quickly Tears flow here bro 'cause I ain't double-cross zero We all know Mike Johnson is one of the fastest at rappin', and that ain't what I'm here for I'm here for rocking the spot Not leaving your mothers with a coffin to drop Anybody got a problem with me when your daddy was popping the twat? Instead of inside her, shoulda took you and shot in a sock