Ready-Joey Bada$$/Statik Selektah

[00:02.00]Written By Statik Selektah & Joey [00:02.50]BADA$$ [00:03.15]Mastered by Statik Selektah [00:03.77]Mixed By Nastee & Statik Selektah [00:04.46]Additional Bass Jake Bowman [00:05.06]Additional Keys Daniel Mensch & Cas [00:05.67]Weinbren [00:06.34]Recorded At Cinematic Studios/The [00:07.64]Cutting Room NYC [00:08.79]Badmon representing [00:09.98]Tell me is you ready is you really ready [00:12.07]They ain't really ready they ain't never ready [00:14.53]I was born ready now I'm coming heavy [00:16.86]Now I'm coming heavy [00:18.53]I hope you ready, [00:19.73]cause its gon' be a real long time I'mma be around [00:21.99]So make way through the crowd [00:24.53]Swimming through a sea of people hope I don't drown [00:27.78]Just trying to make waves with the sound [00:29.91]When my shit drop ***** turn it up loud [00:31.93]And tune them other ****** out [00:34.71]I'm the youngest ***** repping [00:35.92]everytime I'm stepping out [00:36.92]And if you step outside your face we [00:38.34]pop up right in front of your house [00:40.09]****** think because we conscious we don't really get it popping [00:42.46]hey forgot we from the bottom [00:45.06]They forgot we had to fight for every nickel, every dollar [00:47.52]Before the money and the power [00:49.93]You could ask my ***** Powers I've been putting in these hours [00:52.79]Plotting domination now the whole world is ours [00:55.19]Tell me why they hating, its cause of what I'm making [00:57.67]And if you a little patient its gon' be what I'm taking [00:59.89]They got me mistaken [01:00.99]Critics try to box me [01:02.45]I feel like Rocky when it come to paparazzi [01:05.24]Somebody stop me, f*****g up my kamikaze [01:07.20]I'm on my 47 shit , like how could you not see [01:10.08]Cause we dropping jewels I said we dropping jewels [01:12.55]Temper rising cools prolly see me on the news [01:14.98]Joey got the juice, finally got this ***** loose [01:17.52]Now while I'm free to speak free my ***** Shmurda too [01:19.98]I'm feeling like Victor Cruz a giant from New York [01:22.60]I'm lacing up the boots then I'm going f*****g long [01:25.05]So if you trying to score just pass it to me more [01:27.42]Never dropping the ball, always raising the bar [01:30.55]Man it's gon' be a real long time I'mma be around [01:32.80]So make way through the crowd [01:35.63]Swimming through a sea of people hope I don't drown [01:38.30]Just trying to make waves with the sound [01:40.51]When my shit drop ***** turn it up loud [01:42.82]And tune them other ****** out [01:45.77]I'm the youngest ***** repping heavy for my city now [01:48.42]All these others ****** thinking they from the south [01:50.73]***** I'm the bomb even HOV said it [01:52.33]Though I never signed to ROC and no I don't regret it [01:54.77]You know I'm coming for the top you see me getting bigger [01:57.16]How can you sign if you know you're tryna beat a ***** [01:59.76]When I made it to his office I was seventeen [02:02.02]Like forty floors up I grew a pair of wings [02:04.92]In that moment man I knew I could do anything [02:07.38]Feeling like a young Simba can't wait to be a king [02:09.82]And I never lost my hunger man I stayed hungry [02:12.41]If we started talking numbers man they wouldn't love me [02:14.92]Man I'd rather keep the peace but its getting ugly [02:17.62]But **** it what I'm about to say is what they didn't want me [02:19.92]60k first week for the Bada$$ [02:22.42]200k to this day I know you ****** mad [02:25.11]With the 80/20 split my ***** do the math [02:27.42]My ***** Kirk just outsold Troy Ave [02:30.13]Now they sleep we 'bout to hit 'em with the NYCK next [02:32.58]Got these ****** bread hurt, Limp Bizkit [02:34.93]Its crunch time had to go and get his shit wreck [02:37.29]Got the ninjas on deck and the b*****s in check [02:39.85]And that's a shot to anybody man I don't feel you [02:42.48]Steezy told me to go hard and ****** ain't hear you [02:44.89]I see the whole future clearer and I'm near it too [02:47.50]And if you really break a leg, [02:49.20]I hope they still will cheer (wheelchair) you [02:50.86]Man its gon' be a real long time I'mma be around [02:53.46]So make way through the crowd [02:56.02]Swimming through a sea of people hope I don't drown [02:58.68]Just trying to make waves with the sound [03:00.87]When my shit drop ***** turn it up loud [03:03.49]And tune them other ****** out [03:05.93]I'm the youngest ***** repping heavy for my city now [03:08.45]Tell these other ****** I'm coming for the crown