Ego-Macklemore

[00:00.00] [Intro: Speaking] [00:01.98]Ladies and gentlemen [00:03.39]Second Thoughts on the beat [00:07.38]Big up to Lace Cadence [00:09.27]Good lookin' out for this one, man [00:10.38][Verse 1:] [00:11.01]I love hip hop music [00:12.63]I just hate the ego [00:13.80]The politics that follow it [00:15.18]Getting caught in it can be lethal [00:16.68]See I love the community [00:17.82]'Cause a community will embrace you [00:19.38]But you turn it back the community is the people that will hate you [00:22.53]See everybody's striving for that same **** [00:24.78]To get paid and make it [00:25.86]And I'll be honest, I'm trying to become famous [00:28.14]When someone makes a move [00:29.16]Watch that person next to you [00:30.48]Cause I'll warn ya [00:31.41]I love Hova but jealousy's The Takeover [00:33.75]Here come the mean mugs [00:34.83]" I can't do what he does" [00:36.30]And where does that lead us? [00:37.53]To the ego that feeds us [00:39.39]I wish that I could just do what I do [00:41.28]But when a door opens for him I'm afraid there won't be enough room [00:44.88]Comparison's a mother ****** [00:46.56]Like MLK said, [00:47.64]"We all want that band leader syndrome and it won't stop" [00:50.46]This concept makes me wonder [00:52.17]Is it the commodity of the music or the ego that is killing hip hop? [00:55.62][Chorus:] [00:55.83]It's the ego [00:56.79]That makes me not give respect in death [00:58.77]It's the ego [00:59.37]That makes me talk **** behind people's back [01:01.17]You know that it's the ego [01:02.37]That's constantly polluting my consciousness [01:04.32]So ingrained in my brain that I can barely even acknowledge it [01:07.17]It's the ego [01:07.92]That makes the present moment jet lagged [01:09.78]I said it's the ego [01:10.50]That has me trippin about the next man [01:12.33]You know that it's the ego [01:13.47]That makes me not go to the front [01:15.42]Of the show 'cause the performers have exactly what I want [01:18.18][Verse 2:] [01:18.36]I'm so cool [01:19.74]F'real? [01:20.34]No dude, I'm serious spit it different and if you just flow too [01:23.85]I'll listen lookin for glitches and rip 'em to shove improve [01:26.52]That my rhythm's a little bit more intricate, just to boost [01:29.43]My ego [01:30.42]Is so evil [01:31.92]Threatened by so many different kinds of people [01:34.59]It seems that if you're goin' through somethin' and life is feelin' uncomfortable [01:37.80]The immediate place you go is to your ego to comfort you [01:40.71]When Boom Bap got signed [01:42.39]I hated on him [01:43.44]When Grayskul got signed [01:45.09]I hated on him [01:46.38]And that's hard to admit [01:47.40]But since I'm really bein' honest [01:48.81]I wanted to be one of the first to make it as a Northwest rap artist [01:51.90]Instead of takin it as a plus for my region [01:53.94]I took it as a cut to my dreams of makin' it out of this political scene of Northwest haters [01:58.59]To be next I guess I'm just like them [02:00.84]Jealous of who's taking that step [02:03.27][Chorus ] [02:17.63][Outro:] [02:24.96]Now everybody got one but people tryin' to front [02:27.90]Claimin that they on the humble but cocky [02:30.54]Now it comes up when we judge [02:32.01]Or are threatened by someone [02:33.48]But everyone still be like 'man that's not me' [02:36.15]Now let me break it down son [02:37.65]It's only a lack of love for ourselves [02:39.75]Cause we're submerged in 'I gotta be' [02:41.79]The best or number one [02:43.14]But it's just that we don't trust [02:44.67]In our heart and that's what stops me [02:47.40]It's the ego