Spectacular (feat. Sharon Jones)

The challenge is tough

But I know I've got the stuff to be just spectacular

Can't you see it in lights?

See all I know is that it's got to happen

I could feel it in my bones since I started rappin

An 11 year old when ciphers start attracting

Slipped me into the zone

Catching the ill reactions

That's when I knew I was home

I took my craft seriously and made it my own

Practiced stage presence in the mirror when I was alone

And autographs in the margin of my composition

Peeping pump it up praying I'd be in that position

Listen

It wasn't far fetched for a snot-nosed n*gga

Imagine how easy it looks now that I've grown bigger

We got songs

We make hits to get figures

It's a scheme like a pyramid tip your malt liquor to the sky

A toast to the days of the dive, done playing 'em

Now in the packed clubs we're slaying 'em

Without the scene even getting grisly

Is you with me?

We them champs now, why we feeling so specticky

The challenge is tough

But I know I've got the stuff to be just spectacular

Can't you see it in lights?

My fear is for others if I die

My worst flaw

Be it my greatest pride

As I breathe and I'm live

There's gotta be something better than getting by

I sweat it

Upon I bet

It's the way that I survive

I’ve got plenty of best friends on some mutual ascension

Savory life stock

Barrel of comprehension

Aged invention

Many a wild child wicked women and wise men make up this small circle of zen

I'll tell the tide turning

Watching the old mind learning

Toil for the yearning

Midnight oil burning

Mark making stake baby with the big town blues fading away

I'm taking the train to gravy

It's just a matter of time

Been on the grind on the road with the spectac rap and grand design

So what I'm searching for I'll find

Success will be mine

Mama don't cry for me

I'm gonna be fine (can't you see it in lights?)

The challenge is tough

But I know I've got the stuff to be just spectacular

Can't you see it in lights?

Sometimes it seems such a stretch

We need more than beads and a net

For these dreams that we catch

Three parts hard work, one part magic

The information's everywhere

You just gotta know how to grab it

Me and my analysts have run a long road of hope

Perfecting manuscripts

And staying one-up on the okey-doke

Building the boat, seal up the holes 'til it floats

A realistic approach when goals are grandiose

But, damn, we broke

Let's hit the streets, increase the promotion

Gotta eat to live, this is the feast that we've chosen

Gotta get around, and this ain't me presupposin'

Take it out west then bring it back east until we coastin'

And let these niggas buy their necklaces

We reinvest 'til we talking' 'bout stadiums and pyrotechnics

Now let's live and breathe

Water seed, build the legacy

Indeed, live the dream, leave the effigy

(Yeah!)

The challenge is tough

But I know I've got the stuff to be just spectacular

Can't you see it in lights?