[Intro]
Turn up that music
I got to fight this

I want to fight the music on this one
I was gonna write you a poem today
But I was like, $#&@ it

I was feelin' myself, you know?

[Hook]

Illest (*##$ alive, illest (*##$ alive!
Yeah, that my sista and I'm so proud how she hold it down
Illest (*##$ alive, realest (*##$ around

Pray you rich in confidence
Now I'm paying you mind
Look, the illest (*##$ alive, the illest (*##$ alive!

Yeah, one time for the
One time for the illest (*##$ alive, illest (*##$ alive!


[Verse 1: wale]
Working out 9 to 5 keeping them babies fly
No the time, no what it's like

No one notice your plight
No one notice your struggle
No one know what it's like

How you hold in emotion
While holding in life
Man, straight and no $#&@ing

Women's pain got her stressin
I can't touch her, so for pleasure
I get special attention

Yeah this the illest (*##$ alive, I love her freaky side
And the deeper that mean she get the sweeter
Rise for her


[Hook]
Illest (*##$ alive, illest (*##$ alive!

Yeah, that my sista and I'm so proud how she hold it down
Illest (*##$ alive, realest (*##$ around
Pray you rich in confidence

Now I'm paying you mind
Look, the illest (*##$ alive, the illest (*##$ alive!
Yeah, one time for the

One time for the illest (*##$ alive, illest (*##$ alive!

[Verse 2: wale]

Baby father bull%#@!tin', you two don't even speak
Ain't seen his seed in 14 days, that ^!$$% too week
Couple shy of a month, I ain't runnin' you up

When it be too loose or you be too late
We ain't tyin' no knot
And I know it's double standards when you're $#&@in' with us

But I pray these everlasting groupies don't $#&@ up this love
New louboutins when she dressin', louboutin
Please correct me, scratch marks

Make her self conscience, I kiss her where we're sexin'
Yes, it's the illest (*##$ around, flawless and brown
Smokin' loud, blowin' now when the law ain't around

When it comes to underwater I get nautical shawtie
Yeah, you leavin' alone but came here with multiple shawtie


[Hook]
Illest (*##$ alive, illest (*##$ alive!
Yeah, that my sista and I'm so proud how she hold it down

Illest (*##$ alive, realest (*##$ around
Pray you rich in confidence
Now I'm paying you mind

Look, the illest (*##$ alive, the illest (*##$ alive!
Yeah, one time for the
One time for the illest (*##$ alive, illest (*##$ alive!


[Outro - read as poetry]
And I promised myself I wouldn't tell you this %#@! today

But, tomorrow's uncertainty promotes the urgency in this %#@! I'mma say
Perfection doesn't exist if it doesn't consume her (?)
And this world's mine, but the womb is hers

Ms. mother nature I pray that our daughters carry and favor your genes
And when you take off your jeans you get all the me that you need
That you allow me to work it 'til you know what your actual worth means
And for what it's worth, I wrote a couple words to help you see...
Illest (*##$ alive