[intro]
live from america

yasiin, yasiin, yasiin
n.i.p, sing it
[verse 1]

ball so hard, clean clothes look grimy, pretty women don't mind me
so what's fifty grand to a young ^!$$% like me? more than my annual salary
ball so hard, this %#@! crazy, fought my side, the whole world hate me

nervous stares hit the third affairs, savannahs can of police tracing
ball so hard, this %#@! weird, we be home and still be scared
there's grief here, there's peace here, its easy and hard to be here

psycho, liable to turn michael, take your pick, myers, myers, myers, same %#@!
ball so hard, got holey socks, dope block on my stove top
jumbotrons for astronauts, high at all but no planet rock, say

ball so hard, this chopper too, we starving marvin, you hot food
there's birds of prey, no escape, open-air prison, no pursuit
ball so hard, who getting faded? little maurice in the sixth grade

no mama, no father, role model the dope game, say
ball so hard, (*##$ behave, standing behind the deuce-deuce-trey
ice-cold, heat blow, closed casket, cold case

[hook]
ball so hard, that %#@! cray
that %#@! cray, that %#@! cray, that %#@! cray

that %#@! cray, that %#@! cray, that %#@! cray
[verse 2]
these young bloods is looking scary at the mall

they wearing pants, you can still see they drawers
they rob a ^!$$% in the bathroom stall
they took his life cause he ain't want to take it off

singing, ball so hard, that %#@! cray, ain't it, bey? diabetics, fish filet
ball so hard, your hustle cold, ^!$$% it ain't spring
every winter and i 'em with my heat again

bourgie girl, grab your hand, show you how to do this ghetto dance
$#&@ your french, we ain't in france, i'm just saying
prince williams ain't do it right, if you ask me

if i was him, i'd put some black up in my family
fake gucci, my ^!$$%, fake louis, my killa
real drugs, my dealer, who the $#&@ is margiela?

doctors say i'm the illest, i ain't got no insurance
it's them ^!$$%s in poorest, be them rebel guerillas, huh


[interlude: malcolm x]
i don't worry. i tell you, i am a man who believed that i died 20 years ago
and i live like a man who is dead already. i have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything

[hook]
[verse 3]
to the kings and queens and everyone in every place, yo

don't get caught up in no throne, don't get caught up in no throne
don't get caught up in no throne
towers of babylon rise up and so they shall fall

as it was written before, amen, the show goes on
don't get caught up in no throne, don't get caught up in no throne
don't get caught up in no throne

these devils out here lying, acting like the people ain't dying
they silver and they gold, ain't never saved a soul
don't get caught up in no throne, don't get caught up in no throne

don't get caught up in no throne
shout-outs to the earth and to the heavens, lunar, solar eclipses
we seeking for forgiveness and safety for our children

don't get caught up in no throne, don't get caught up in no throne
don't get caught up in no throne, allah is in control