Joey Bada$$ - Ring the Alarm

[Verse 1: Joey Bada$$]

I was born runnin' with the baton

Now I'm known as the young intellectual don

Until I'm gone, where I'm from, the real don't get along

With the fake, look me in the face, eyes of the storm

You don't want none

No beef could never hurt me

I be on my Istanbul, they cold turkey

Firstly, it's the double entendre monster

Takin' haunted constant trips through your conscious

So be cautious

If it call for it, we leavin' corpses

The causes of the coffin is the broken clauses

Skeletons in my closet, tomorrow's never promised

Never mind it because we immortals regardless

Real G's move in silence like my designer

Intertwined with the timeless, divine higher powered

I was drippin' in the gold since a minor

Sittin' on my throne overlookin' my empire, uh, uh

[Chorus: Joey Bada$$]

Resurrection of real, you niggas fake

Never second-guessin' my kill, so choose your fate

'Cause I'm born runnin' with the baton, a tickin' time bomb

Nigga, better ring the alarm, uh

Resurrection of real, you niggas fake

Never second-guessin' my kill, so choose your fate

'Cause I'm born runnin' with the baton, a tickin' time bomb

Nigga, better ring the alarm, uh

[Bridge: Joey Bada$$]

So keep it spinnin', disc jocker

Flick the wrist, don't risk that, partner

These niggas impostors, we movin' like the mobsters

One false move, have 'em sleepin' with the lobsters, huh

So keep it spinnin', disc jocker

Flick the wrist, don't risk that, partner

These niggas impostors, we movin' like the mobsters

One false move, have 'em sleepin' with the...

[Verse 2: Joey Bada$$]

It's the ALL-AMERIKKKAN BADA$$

Who you mad at? They ain't have to ask that

Attack with the backlash, where's my cash at?

Runnin' all through NASDAQ, strap in my backpack

Goin' off the knack, dopeboy in the Cadilac

Havin' flashbacks, wish a nigga would clap back

Hit 'em with the blackjack, goin' through a stack fast

I snap with the raps, I make 'em bring the whole track back

Niggas get smacked with the realer

When I drop, it's all killer, no feelings

So you better not make a wrong move, nigga

I'll personally deliver each shot that won't miss ya

And when it hit ya, it's no warnin'

We bombardin', me and my squadron

If you want it, get your army

We droppin' bombs calmly

This is no party

Any scraps left, we just feed 'em to the zombies

[Bridge: Meechy Darko]

Death before dishonor, I die for my brethren

This is a stick-up, ocean's 47

Ring the alarm, if a war yuh wan get in

Ring the alarm, if a war yuh wan get in

Death before dishonor, I die for my brethren

This is a stick-up, ocean's 47

Ring the alarm, if a war yuh wan get in

Ring the alarm, if a war yuh wan get in

[Verse 3: Nyck Caution & Kirk Knight]

Ring the alarm, we ain't keepin' it calm

Need a reason to see the dog, break the leash and I'm on

Was hungry when I started, more ravenous as I evolve

Caution hazardous, inflictin' damages, I can't recall, uh

Rich in spirit when I broke some laws

I'm breakin' even with my Pros against all the odds

Made my words cut deep, you gon' need some gauze

And that alcohol, we only goin' bar for bar

You know I blacked out, they bring the track out, I lay the smack down

Remember nights on the dirty mattress in the trap house?

I snap out 'em and flipped it around to where I'm at now

Livin' legend, finally back up on the map now

Resurrection of real, let's bring it back

It ain't even about the bars, they bumpin' whatever slaps now

All I hear is that ad-lib rappin' on my SoundCloud

Sick of the trash out, this is the crackdown

[Outro: Meechy Darko]

Likkle bwoy dun backshot we'll bury ya

Big metal ting ya get Captain Amerikkka

Beast coat regime (La Cosa Nostra)

My team supreme (Fuck around and smoke ya)

Death before dishonor, I die for my brethren

This is a stick-up, ocean's 47

Ring the alarm, if a war yuh wan get in

Ring the alarm, if a war yuh wan get in

• Artist:Joey Bada$$