Last Word Standing

Step up

Step close

Step quiet

You came for a crown

I came for a career move

Big room voice

But you shaking in them thin shoes

Talk tough?

Every bar sound borrowed

Whole style on rent

Due back tomorrow

You got views, true

Still I’m unimpressed

’Cause comments write your heart

You just scroll for self-respect

I write pain into pages

Then burn ‘em for the smoke

You just chase every trend

Like a dog that slipped the rope

This that last word standing

You talk, I land it

Every line heavy

Yeah, the ground feel slanted

You bark, I brand it

My name, they chant it

You spit, I vanish

Then appear, still standing

You got jokes, cool

I got layers in my lungs

You a meme in a mask

I’m the name on their tongues

You rehearse every curse

Still it sound half-hearted

I freestyle fears

Turn ‘em into black market

You flex followers

I been counting funerals

Buried old versions of myself

At every cubicle

You chase clout, loud

Beg the crowd to choose you

I just breathe, speak

Watch the room refuse you

This that last word standing

You talk, I land it

Every line heavy

Yeah, the ground feel slanted

You bark, I brand it

My name, they chant it

You spit, I vanish

Then appear, still standing

Who really want it?

Step in, don’t stutter

Skin in the game

While you tweet from the gutter

You wrote your little list

Of the things you gon’ say

I brought a mirror for you

Now get out your own way

This that last word standing

You talk, I land it

Every line heavy

Yeah, the ground feel slanted

You bark, I brand it

My name, they chant it

You spit, I vanish

Then appear, still standing