who gon’ top me?

 i walk through life like it’s déjà vu,

like i lived this whole script before

and came back sharper

just to rerun the scenes they never survived.


i don’t crave a normal life,

those chains never fit my wrists anyway.

i’m built for motion,

built for the shadows,

built for the glow that only hits

when everybody else knocked out

and the universe whispers my real name.


you ever felt chosen

but punished for it first?

that’s me.


i ain’t have guidance growing up,

so i had to carve my own commandments,

write my own religion in notebooks,

teach myself how to be a man

with no blueprint,

no mentor,

no hand on my shoulder

telling me “you’ll be okay.”


i wasn’t okay.

but i lived.

and that was enough.


i seen snakes turn brothers,

seen brothers turn ghosts,

seen ghosts turn back into memories

that still try to haunt me

when my guard drops at 3am.


but still, i rise clean.


my intuition got teeth now,

my awareness got wings,

my vision got depth

they ain’t teach in any classroom.


i’m the storm they prayed for

and the storm they fear

at the same time.


cuz when i walk in a room,

energy shifts like i’m dragging thunder behind me.

women feel it in their pulse,

men feel it in their pride,

and the world feels it in the silence

right before i speak.


you can’t top a man

who built himself

from the floor

to the flame

with no applause.


i’m the kind of pressure

that makes diamonds insecure.

i’m the kind of presence

that makes gods turn around

just to double check

what’s walking next to them.


every hit made me brighter.

every loss made me lethal.

every heartbreak carved my chest open

just so my spirit had more room to breathe.


and when i look at the world now,

it looks small.

not cuz it is,

but because i outgrew the cage

they called “a good life.”


i’m built for stages,

for legacies,

for chapters they’ll teach

after i’m long gone.


i’m built for the crown

i never asked for

but always knew belonged to me.


so tell me again…


who gon’ top me?


no one.

not in this lifetime.


— Mr. Mak


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