Verse 1
They ain't never liked us, We ain't never cared
517 boys, but they know us everywhere

but they know us everywhere, Marcus Norris that's the mayor
We don't know we livin reckless? Yea, we know but we don't care.
Old heads jealous of a youngin with a plan

Cause I never over-sit and they never understand
They talk behind my back, but they undercover fans,
Cause the man that I'm becoming is becoming the man

I'm the man.... They hated,
I remember they hated,
I hope every time I come to mind, that they remember I made it

I ain't fail like they did, I did whatever I stated,
getting cake off my old stuff, they like happy belated!
They faking, They don't know I know that they faking

They smile all in my face, but honestly they can't take it
I was 17 when I copped a Benz and I took it right to get painted
cause just a few years prior we were living in someone's ba!@&(t

a couple years later, we were off in that trailer
we aint have no water, showered at the neighbors
we aint ask for no favors, we aint wait for no prayers

mom went and got a couple jobs I know I could never repay her
I only know how to thank her, and thats to be all that I'll be
Remember how they doubt me? they thought it was just a hobby.

I went from rapping in that ba!@&(t to concertos with my colleagues and I write them like Vivaldi in Venetian Ospedale
Rise


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Rise

Rise

Cause I'm only getting stronger, I am hot and getting warmer

I sit back and ask my momma what you want?
She said I wanna see my Son Rise!


Rise
Rise


Cause you can have excuses, or you can have success
but you can't have both, nothing more, nothing less
I'ma rise!


Verse 2.
and I'm making it look too easy

I do this for Britt, Bri, Tony, Annie, Weezy
I say Its The Royal Fam stupid ball, Fushigi
Made it out of Prison City, No ki's, Houdini.

I put on for my city
so it's rest in peace to Dee, Anthony, Mike, & Romie G
E, Ben, Bobby B, and we can't forget about Monique

Tell them haters gotta kill me if you plan on stopping me
Never speak on my fam, Never speak on how we eat
cause wasn't nobody saying much when we didn't have a spot to sleep.

Now I get awards and everybody got a speech?
Cross me like a pastor learn I practice what I preach.
Rise


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Verse 3
Fire in in the flesh, real as he write
no cookie cutter, not even on Christmas Eve night

Find favor like David, I feel no Philistine fright
Rappers on they last leg, and I'm millipede tight
That means I really be right

How I'm feeling, I ain't chillin til a milli feel light
haters hearing what I write being like 'he aight"
but them kids is not the sun, this the Billie Jean type

I wrote this so Michael Norris know he can do whatever he wanna do
Know that they gonna talk about you, but not because they doubting you
They just know when you succeed they'll be left without excuse

So when they try at stopping you from doing what you gotta do, just Rise.

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