Stakes Still High

[Verse]
Uh, Sunrise
Sunfall
Same place, yet I made it so far
Same name, but I changed through the art
And my own brain going through a third world war

The money that I make goes straight to my pocket
Then back to the music, so the artist still starving
You're truly the reason that Yours Truly
Was the album that I made and not popcorn for profit

Hands high
Reach for the sky
Back spoken for living our computer jail lives

You can share what you want
All allowed
But is the life to live, when you walk outside?

I heard it through the grapevine
Don't wait on the sign
Before you change your mind
88 Street dogs racing by
No lie, yo, the stakes is high
Yeah, the stakes is high

Yeah, yo, the stakes is high

Uh

[Hook]
Yeah, the stakes still high
The stakes still high
Yo, the stakes still high
Said the stakes still high
The stakes still high
Yo, the stakes still high

[Verse]
Uh, these days cats will die for anything
Preteen rats going gas cap on anything
If you seen outside the box
You're not industry
Everybody's autotune, tattoo, skinny jeans

This is not a hate song
It's a love song
This is not a rap song
It's a pop song
Straight to your jaw
Leave you on the floor
Waiting for the count
With your headphones on

Too confusing
To try to fit new music into rap
Too many influences
And illusions to the past

And you won't even catch
Even half James Baldwin
Down to the mountain top and back

Bags packed
Off the map
Twenty stacks
You ever get off of that?
Good god
Cats get off of that
'Boutta bring it around the world
Had to send bob and back

International swag
Make up a dance for that
Get your hands out your pants and rap
This is different
Its time stamped
Realest shit that ever while
They lie
Cause the stakes is forever high

They forever high