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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