The Artistic Integrity-Wale

[ti:The Artistic Integrity] [ar:Wale] [al:The Mixtape About Nothing] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Artistic Integrity - Wale [00:02.43]Okay uh look [00:05.02]If you wanna just keep doing the same old thing [00:08.32]Maybe this idea is not for you [00:11.59]I for one am not going to compromise my artistic integrity [00:16.61]And I'll tell you something else [00:19.09]This is the show and we're not gonna change it [00:23.51]Right [00:28.52]Never will I ever utter never to myself [00:30.81]Fall in love with defeat [00:32.01]Throw my endeavors on the shelf [00:33.46]I never back up like cleo lemon on myself [00:36.05]Lemonade connoisseur life's lemons coming out [00:38.69]When life gets sour know I still devour [00:41.53]I remember peabody mice crawling up the shower [00:44.34]Now it's motorbikes [00:45.64]Warm nights out in maui [00:47.03]And white b**ches and light skinned women be smilin' [00:49.82]Dc star a pg legend [00:52.37]Moco phenomenon holmes I'm all of it [00:55.00]Yeah they all love it though critique jon lovitz [00:57.71]And whack hoes hatin' on key out in public [01:00.50]See welcome to fame where most of us is gon' change [01:03.14]If you never do still niggas look at you strange [01:06.06]Niggas mostly assume niggas make up they news [01:08.55]Once you made it you cool they label you brand new [01:11.22]Really in subconscious [01:12.88]They see a star no longer the underdog [01:15.39]So nobody wanna walk with ya [01:17.17]They all talk like you think you was a God n'sh*t [01:19.84]But you the same that you always is [01:21.78]Yeah they all convinced but all for sh*t [01:24.51]This all be different if you had an office key yeah [01:27.83]And I'm the same [01:28.83]On e'erything I love [01:30.15]Or everything I love [01:31.41]Please pardon my integrity [01:32.79]Come come [01:35.05]What were you thinking [01:36.31]What was going on in your mind [01:39.11]Artistic integrity [01:41.04]Where did you come up with that [01:43.12]You're not artistic and have no integrity [01:47.11]You know you really need some help [01:48.12]A regular psychiatrist couldn't even help you [01:54.92]Check it so my chin's high like a japanese pilot [01:58.47]They frontin' they charles s dutton movin' garbage [02:01.21]And what you callin' that so called hard sh*t [02:03.98]One like me like I founded a convent [02:06.76]To contend my content [02:08.33]I'm on ends meet like a vegetable omelette see [02:12.27]So the more you see [02:14.66]It's few niggas speakin' like me [02:16.53]So they put me in the box with he and he [02:19.13]And them which is more of a circus than a fair [02:21.97]They work to get there so to work to get theirs [02:24.62]I'll be nothin' but a replica lookin' in the mirror [02:27.34]Respect still there but ya boy's right here [02:30.03]We apples and oranges but everybody pears [02:33.25]They say I'm lupe they say I'm lil' wayne [02:36.07]They say I'm too jay to portray new lay [02:38.94]They say I'm too nice to be a rapper [02:41.13]The prerequisite is gun clappin' so what happened [02:43.71]They label me a backpackin' n***a on fag sh*t [02:46.54]I laugh at 'em [02:47.39]Though Mr west I ain't mad at ya [02:49.12]See he in his soul mode [02:51.09]I'm in my go go [02:52.52]Only thing in common is these f**kin' matsumotos [02:56.20]Yeah live from the so ho [02:57.93]And hov told me I'd blow joe [02:59.96]See I rap like a lifetime blown nose [03:02.73]All I know is I'm merely [03:04.41]Meaning I'm lesser than a God [03:07.19]But higher up than ya'll [03:08.52]Matt leinart when firing the ball [03:11.87]Maya angelou spawn abandoned and raised by nas [03:15.91]Raised by the sharks but I'm swimming with the prawns [03:18.66]I found my own lane [03:19.96]Meet Mr folarin folarin