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Marlon Kraft, welcome to the Five Fingers Challenge on Sway in the Morning
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Let's go! I'm with that shit, let's do it. A brave soul has entered the arena, seeking to test their lyrical ability
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Five beats will be chosen at random, no requests. I was so nervous the first time we did this
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Welcome to the Sway in the Morning Five Finger Freestyle Challenge on Shade 45
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Welcome to the Valley of the Hyena! Huh? Marlon Kraft is back
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Oh, this is a great beat. You gonna get crazy with this one, Marlon
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Hey. I'm a New York giant, word to Willie Mays. A lot of bars, but what you really say, why they don't hit replay
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All that prove yourself shit don't get you paid. Spit the shit they feel from the class to the cell
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Cause them past could have been the same. Nipsey could have been Bill Gates if the script was changed
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Or I could have been out on them streets bringing pain. Or with a cup in my hand
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Cause I be watching them mans live outside. wondering if me and their mental shit the same but who am i to preach i blowing past cats who tried to reach i from the era when ai was the answer Now they think AI is the answer Shit but you can copy a soul Go ahead copy a stanza
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I don't rock with the banter. I ain't cocky, I'm stand-up. You ain't never felt that
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Ain't knocking your mans, but his eyes got him some plans. That's gonna end up with you jammed up
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I retire dame before they turn me into Westbrook. Want love at my worst, cause they don't know what my best took
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Y'all only respect the game when the refs look. I play the same in the rucka and in the finals
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All these whacks getting paid Y'all must be into the vinyl Feel like Vito If he could have seen
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What happened to Michael Yeah Look This a wisdom I can't make you hear a fly
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I can't buy you In the rap game Where everybody says They was a hitter You wasn't in the field
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You's a designated hitter They judge off thumbnails Check the resume Get bitter
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When they see the score And realize I'm Hans Zimmer I let them argue
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Who white noise is different Out here doing The white boy Olympics I'm good on that Shit
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The bar low And the bar's low When the lights come, we'll look up like where the stars go
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I'm out of dudes weight class with the shit. I stayed laughing and shit. I ain better than no one as a man But hey rapping and shit they ain lasting for shit Eight years in in that time i done broken the mold told a lot of objective truths ain objective who told them and i get it
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but my spot is earned my stock deserve a lot's been given to dudes who did a lot less earn it
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so pardon me i'm taking my respect old-fashioned or it's wire are we taking it by check
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dudes integrity fugazi to your honor i object try and be less of me for them is all that i regret
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shit might catch me deep in meditation in the grass by the river try and beat my hesitation
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on top of beat critiquing my presentation exemplifying greatness trying to lead a generation
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no surrender defeat or resignation in my soul of estimation elite or by design two feet all in my
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grind it seemed how they define these days is underlined with the standards i subscribe to
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while y'all was jotting captions i was plotting actions to be michael or the mic while looking
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more johnny paxton they ain't really that it's more about who's in fashion they ain't really that
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it's more about who that faction yeah me i cashed in the passion and left the casino sometimes you
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can tell more by a person's silence all that which he know that's why i never trip when they leave me
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off the list they looked at me and seen a lot of risk who won jump out the window for this I never really had a cosign of OG I did it all dolly Undercover till I found my Jolie
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Worse Smith found a missus So I've been counting paper, not counting es
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But I do it for the art, though And to watch the heart grow All they want is bread, and that's malnutritious Yeah
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Supercalifragilistic-ass rappers Bunch of words, and none of them realistic-ass rappers Made you stars, but you common
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Big-dipper-ass rappers The coach is sickening. You the symptom-ass rappers? Sheesh. Me, I'm making no apologies
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I call it how I see it. They Tim Donaghy. All heart, my bio is biology. Secret to eating good
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. I cook constantly. Dude's beefing over who got the sauce, man. I don't speak Balinese
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It's all nonsense. I'm more concerned with Thibodeau coaching offense or why it seemed like
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stupidity equals content. I'm on 10 like I'm going Clyde Frazier. Pardon my abrasion. A punk
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They could get you in the lane, but you still got to finish, got to lay them
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They ain't ready to hit the pavement. I'm saying like, sway. Marlon Clark, come on, baby
