Yo, 9th Wonder, we got one
Never, never done (Rapsody)

And Radio Raheem DeVaughn
Church on the moon


My birthplace was the Bronx
Adidas with the fat shoelaces
Gazelles are the frames on our faces

Goin' back, I was on ?
We been buildin' this forty years strong
The game is for the takin' this is history in the makin'

Let me make it clear (La la la la)
This ain't no bubble gum rap with 9th on the track
With Rapsody ? (La la la la)

This is this is
This is (La la la la)
This is this is

This is (La la la la)
This is this is
This is (La la la la)

This is this is
This is (The real)


I stay on my P's and my Q's
S's TU's I'm always workin'
How you spell success in the STU

Some get they money, like to blaze in the Coupe
The greats spend days practicin' like the hoops
We the truth, none realer

Too uncommon like Dilla to light
I shine, my rhymes come paired like the Williams
Two twenty-twos I'm a sister worth millions

Lyrically they all fear the flow like Big Williams
Polo dipped, loco whips
Won't impress if the globe want potato crisps

Rap back like the NATO, connect with gods
Cause my eyes'll be enlarged, weighed out like Chris
Yo, the bigger the gold, I'm really the mold

Which you'd really wanna be if you had any soul
You're soul, I burn slow like four fours hittin'
'95 spirit in the days it was written

Cats stay trippin', but rip and I'll never stop
Got a little buzz, now I bubble like a kettle pop
I know the devil watch and wanna touch me, but like metal box

I stay locked under this hip-hop, forever God
Reckless necklace flows, I'll hang 'em
Real comin' back, now these rappers all changin'

Fear for careers, I don't cower to new power
Duracell, it never runs out for an hour
Keep destroyin', smoke 'em like sour

Break 'em all down to rebuild 'em like towers
That's the real


This is (La la la la)
This is this is
This is (La la la la)

This is this is
This is (La la la la)


The modern day saints of our stories
New torch bearer, we the children like Corey
Guns are the ones that ran ? to the millions

And watched Mike and Deloris
Used to ride a Nori, now the people in quarry
About the five-three MC with old ?

Got a bite on the mic like the likes of Lauren
Hip-hop, score got to settle this to flip flop
Back to when cats would roll Lexs like wrist watch

Elbow out the door bumpin' Nas 'til the speaks pop
Couldn't see me eye to eye, keep pumpin' your Reboks
Radder rearviews, clear view I don't fear you

Or you, you should keep a ear to the streets too to hear true
I been in the booth, yeah killin' on the daily
Jam to represent another baby of the '80s

Katy Perry I grew up on Mary
The flow vary cause I studied those old from the aries
Pot of gold, why I shine like that fine, it's scary
The game over, I killed whack MCs, all buried
It's the real


The game is for the takin' this is history in the makin'
Let me make it clear (La la la la)
This ain't no bubble gum rap with 9th on the t-
TDE, ladies and gentlemen, Ab-Soul!


So while you ^!$$%s keep bangin' the same drum
I'm smokin' like I ain't got the same lungs
I had when I started, pardon my ignorant rants
I rap like I move keys but Apple S can't save em

There's only so much you can show em
They been reading his story so long, think they know him
I'm sewing up the game, I need needle and thread
Some people eat? sheets, some people just need wool
This %#@! cuts deep

Rugby toughin the feel, you be where the rugs be
In the house ^!$$% with the rest of the house ^!$$%s
Thug life, rolling, my homies are screaming ?$#&@ life?
Showing love at the same damn time
I'd say the future is looking bright contrary to CNN
Give me a mic and about three nights

I turn straw into gold like Rumpelstiltskin
Man I made a man cry vibing to me a man
Walking like an Eyptian, life ain't pharaoh
Boy just got shipped and the judge don't care
I'll take my steak where, maybe it will help me bare
With all the bloody consequences obvious? in here
So I guess I got the game figured out all wrong

I guess you never know what you got til it's gone
Til every terrain on this plane experience sunshine
Two fingers up and $#&@ one time

So allow yourself to get caught up in the Rapsody
And the 9thWonder of the world actually
Raheem DeVaughn

Soul!