voice like a blade

I rise and it don’t faze me I arise up in the haze Don’t be surprised when I get a raise My eyes stuck on what’s prized but don’t glaze me Practised, analyzed the game of the maze Entice me — chaise your drink and go high speed Gaze a true chase, race a legend Prime phase, Armageddon I’ma end it, I’ma erase it Let my bullets leaden as I deaden sights No space for seven No grace with ease — always gotta get even I’m built from the base, you see I’ma sword unsheathing from the base Weaving, I deface — leaving people out of place Cleaving through the fake — I’m the ace They gonna be believing what I face in my dream Perceiving is believing — I’ma mace it Heaving down weight as I face it I know I’m achieving but I need greatness to face it Or they will be grieving why I didn’t make it Brace — conceiving these thoughts, I embrace it Relieving the flow state as I race it Peeving on me but I grace it Re-eving my own life line — you can trace it Thieving for time, mine’s broken like a vase — shit Pieces on the floor, but I reshape it Pressure in my core — I don’t fake it Took pain, molded it — now I bake it Into bars they feel in the basement I ain’t ask for patience, I break it Time ain’t mine — I still take it Rhymes divine like fate been sacred Lines so live, the mic might shake quick Too real for the scripts they write I lit my own path — no need for light Shadows in the past still creep at night But I fight ‘til I flip that fear to flight Burn scars deep, but they write my scroll I bleed ink, truth leaks from soul No cheat code, I broke that mold I walk through fire, come out cold Vision vivid — no sleep, I’m wired Built from grit, pain’s what inspired Dream too big? They said “retire” I said “bet” — now I’m climbing higher I don’t fold, I fold time — bend space when I rhyme Soul gold in the grime, I evolve through the climb They threw shade, I threw signs — now my mind’s in design Every loss got aligned like a verse in a shrine I was down, but the depths taught lessons I was silent — now my pen’s my weapon I was broke with a dream and a question Now I float through the dark like a blessing I ain’t asked for the crown — I bled for it Built from a past where the dead poured it Spoke to the void, got a head full of torment Still made noise when the world tried to ignore it This ain’t luck — this is craft from the pain This is breath from the smoke and the ash in the rain This is hunger that gnaws at the back of the brain While I laugh through the strain, still attacking the chains I don’t crack — I combust Pressure hits, and I trust That the weight that breaks most Just reshaped who I was So I spit with a cause, not a pause or a play I was made in the gray where the hopeful decay I was raised in a place where the silence would pray Now I blaze through the dark with a voice like a blade