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Yeah, who know the challenge
You? You know the challenge
Maybe, let's go

Who know the challenge of tryna toe up the balance
Tryna find a little sound inside the silence
Define the style as some polished and full of solace
Yo, but I'm billy goating goals like I'm Eilish, now close your eyelids

Big t-shirt sales can help the mileage
I ain't learn none of this in college if we being honest
Ayo, I was really just floating on a island
Realizing that it's on me if I wanna keep on smiling
But freestyling just to show em it's free
Ain't the same thing as flowing so deliberately
It's like the infinite me, I gotta distill it right now
Just gimme the beat, if they can see it I'm writing light down
I hope some other universe can feel the ripples go
I heard that life is a bitch, I'm sucking nipples though
Aye make the best of it, dog--that's my testament
I been on the fence again feeling like a resident
On defense again, the grass looking greener
I sense a green eyed monster inside your demeanor
If they want what you got and there's not two spots
They gon take what they want and leave you with the oowop
The soup pot lid get hot when it start to bubble up
Young heads fuck with my shit like I stepped my mumbles up
Hit the ground running like I jumped in double dutch
Street flavor rhythm but he country as fuck, ayo

Who know the challenge of tryna toe up the balance
Tryna find a little sound inside the silence
Define the style as some polished and full of solace
Yo, but I'm billy goating goals like I'm Eilish, now close your eyelids

Tall t-shirts because the shoulders so broad
Kick it in the mountains where there's bluegrass and folk art
The flow sod dirty, the French Broad's heard me
Been going hard so long I can't recall thirty
I got old one day--it could happen to you
I think the coldest way might be just seeing it through
Ayo, seeing the vision ain't even half of the battle
A lot of work to put in and this world'll test your metal
If you rattled don't show it, they gon feast on your weakness
You a beast coming low out the blocks like at the Preakness
Yo turn your swag on and you a dragon
Breath all your fire, guard your gold with a passion
Attack a goal and mash on, if they latch on
That's cool, but if not leave em behind, we finding action
Tote a axe for any cypher competitor
If they wanna show they ass--well, I'm a stegosaur
Just be a vessel for the extra terrestrial
From the sky on the ground now there's mud in your vestibule
Extra cool on the mic with a mess of news
But put a foot up your ass for stepping on the shoes
What's to lose when it's win time
Aye how we spend time determine how we finish on the end line

Who know the challenge

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released November 18, 2022
Vocals and lyrics by C.Shreve the Professor
Production by ILe Flottante
Mixed and mastered by EG Engineering

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