[ti:Prescription]
[ar:Wale]
[al:Attention Deficit]
[00:00.52]Wale - Prescription
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[00:05.33]Simply out of this world by choice
[00:07.53]The world's too much for the soul to enjoy
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[00:10.97]I focus on the void and I fill it
[00:12.98]Hopin' the depressed ain't give in and give up
[00:15.66]So listeners give up your ears, it's your hero
[00:18.35]From here on a heroin like high, I give off
[00:21.09]Live off my lie and my lullaby
[00:23.35]They itchin' for a new breath here's the calamine
[00:26.05]And I refuse to camoflauge with other guys
[00:28.74]You see my mind is amused of they head noddin'
[00:31.57]I so got 'em, as hypnosis of hip-hop
[00:34.64]'cause, when I talk they don't just watch
[00:37.58]I make 'em feel it, the feelin's' unfamiliar
[00:39.84]A rush of your adrenaline you can pick up a buildin'
[00:42.53]You can become a killer, if properly scripted
[00:45.25]The first one's free, next time I'll be billin' ya
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[00:53.47]Here go your prescription (x3)
[01:09.75]Take your prescription
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[01:15.94]Don't let the pain getcha
[01:17.33]I swear my lane will provide as a painkiller
[01:20.00]A painkiller, a 16 of Percoset
[01:22.65]Just let it chill Joe
[01:24.00]That lil' burn that you feel, feel good don't it?
[01:26.72]Just sit back and relax and take it easy
[01:30.83]And let the beat play
[01:32.11]Close your eyes, whoever uninspired
[01:34.55]Pay me no mind, I put Adderol in y'all's
[01:37.33]Riddle them with Ritalin, attention deficit
[01:40.10]Niggas start listenin', and what I'm givin' them
[01:42.60]The drug that they brain need
[01:44.26]Them niggas sick of hip-hop so they appointed me
[01:46.83]And I invened but the IV inside of me
[01:49.57]And ignorance was drug of choice but they OD'd
[01:52.25]Couldn't alone leave 'em
[01:53.70]I am the sole leader
[01:54.95]The young soul that the OG's still believe in
[01:57.67]And if you not convinced keep on promotin' them
[02:00.47]I breathe life in the game, they are Kevorkian
[02:03.11]They provokin' suicide but as soon as signed
[02:05.81]I drew designs for consumer's minds so in time
[02:08.48]I do it for all y'all, do it for all y'all
[02:11.16]Don't gotta wait long
[02:12.51]The doctor has arrived just be patient
[02:16.15]Please, please
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[02:19.79]Here go your prescription (x3)
[02:35.73]Take your prescription
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[02:41.75](Talking:)
[02:42.25]See, they say one has to know the past to last in the present.
[02:45.62]So I, bask in the weather while the presence
[02:47.66]Of these laggers lend me they rappin' to give gifts to my brethren.
[02:51.42]My nigga this is more than a vocal booth, this is my, only truth, this is my risin' up.
[02:56.54]So you can ask Black Thought if I know my Roots.
[02:59.33]Shit, before you cuest my Love for this,
[03:01.50]Just know we would play Q-Tip in the Q before you knew T.I.P.
[03:04.45]And before you knew T.I.P. I was tippin' strippers properly to Pussy Poppin'.
[03:07.65]So, when you ask me "What you know about that? ",
[03:09.73]Ironically I'm askin' you the same question partna'.
[03:12.79]I am hip-hop. Past, present and future.
[03:16.29]I can rap on some old Primo,
[03:17.91]Sound like the present Sigo and make it feel like a sequal to the new me,
[03:21.22]Bitch. I'm Wale, the prescription.
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