("Papa's Got a Brand New Excuse" sample) 22 & buggin out/ anger all bottled up/ my brother said he movin south a week before he packed da truck/ I'm assed out wit no place/I bounced back, you know wusup/ shoutout to my nigga Que, he let me post up for some months/ every night we turnin up/ threw house parties in the dark when our power got turned off/ workin extra hard to make sure we got bills caught up/ that's how we was brought up/ get it how you live & leave da rest of it to God bruh/ got evicted soon enough/ back to square one/ swallowed my pride & took the ride to go & talk to my aunt/ I mean, I knew she'd let me stay, but at a young 22 was in no rush for curfews and otha rules n such/ now I'm roomin wit the cuzzos/ pieces to the puzzle/ we clicked real quick by sharing our past struggles/ I told em bout Flint, growin up in the gutter/ in a fatherless home, raised by a single mother baby ("Papa's Got a Brand New Excuse" sample) Even as a youngin I was hella independent/ was the youngest of the children/ havin dreams & seein visions/ of an undiscovered world, payin very close attention/ family call me Jr., my pop is the first edition/ it's ironic that I got his name, the rest of him was missin/ made me feel like a word that didn't have a definition/ listen closely as I'm spittin/ I don't want you to miss this/ I gotta make it clear, that's my one and only mission/ like you eva feel disconnected from ya own name?/ cuz you & ya old man/ didn't share the same space/ but share the same face, think in all the same ways/ but if they asked you bout his life you couldn't say a damn thang?/ these were the thoughts that weighed heavy on my brain/ I told people call me Will, cuz bein Willie was a strain/ when I was Willie there was pain/ but now wit Will, there's a way/ to create my own lane and redefine my own name/ through this music and this paint/ redesign the whole game/ I said the family botta reign/ & you thought that I was playin?!/ the whole family winnin now we lookin like the Wayans/ win the fight before the match we got em shook at the weigh-ins/ it's hard to ignore me now that I den found my way in/ & I rap about my paintings so you see just what I'm sayin/ speaking to ya senses through my wild imagination/ made myself an open book, I use my flow to turn the pages/ never ending chapters, never movin backwards/ you'll forget who came before me once you see just what I'm after/ I'm smarter than a whip, cuz my mind is my master/ it ran away from bullshxt, and never got captured/ the booth is my pulpit, I'm speakin to the masses/actually you'll see I'm the answer once you listen to this flashback, damn (When Passion & Paper Collide via YouTube)

Masterpieces all in my house/ on the walls, above the couch/ paint all on my boots/ you see the proof/ just from me walkin 'round/ I got hella styles, I'm heaven bound, I'm from Buctown/ 810 what's good?/ I rule my mind, I don't need a krown/ you should rule yours too if you know what's good/ I touched a pen & ever since, I been top 'a my class/ walkin 'round these packed out art shows wit wine in my glass/ talent drippin off all my clothes, oo that's paint, nevermind/ I Paint. I Draw. I Conquer/ ima monsta wit this shxt & girl you can see the signs/ not takin what you offer 'less it's offering/ I'm art God, time to pay yo tithes/ my talent runneth over/ flow will sink ya boat/ i hope ya float oo boy dont drown/ don't look down we been up this year/ you ain't right for me you get left this year/ our squad fit together like Tetris bitxh/ stay in yo lane or exit quick/ I'm king in my city & I'm fresh as shxt Fresh Prince the actor did more than Fresh Prince the rapper to me/ I painted Prince way back when I drank gin in Stafford homie/ I'm lappin niggas/ take a shot, I'm snappin nigga/ lame niggas only snappin pictures then crying over these ratchet women/ you wack, it figures/ take ya time n practice livin/ life outside 'a television/ why listen to my opinion?/ I'm a top 5 artist nigga, top 3 if you know better/ 100 like all A's in red pen in bold letters/ gettin green like a loose leaf from a tall tree in some fall weather/ nothin sweet, Halle Berry/ blackin out, February/ killin canvas, very scary/ paintin yo obituary/ if you fake you gettin carried/ betta bring yo pallbearers/ test me and you learn yo lesson/ killin shxt by trial & error/ on my level/ word to Wiz, get like me? Neva eva/ word to Scrappy, tell ya kids/ sun'n niggas, I 'da pappy/ always been a problem, you gon solve it ?/ nigga mathematics/ uh oh I'm evolving/ room revolving/ I don't do this often/ but when I do its awesome/ golden pourage to a starvin artist/ mind is like a portrait, that I painted, so you know it's gorgeous/ money on my mind/ don't pay me mind/ if you cannot afford it/ I met yo girl and booked her, like a story/ like we met at Borders/ I Paint. I Draw. I Conquer, ima king. Call me Will Porter

Hook Pickin up the pieces/ left from all the old seasons/ trying not to cut my fingers/ as I rearrange the sequence/ paintin hella pictures and I barely use an easel/ workin wayy too hard to make this here look easy/ So here we are. In NY wit my feet up/ plottin a whole mission/ breakin down hella reefa/ a seeker/ of perfect wisdom & knowledge/ & though I didn't finish college/ I could make students out some 'a my teachers/ features/ of a young, black God/ holdin strong black rod/ shinin bright like Ra/ leeches/ wanna suck my light/ but that ain't right/ I gotta fight to keep these lames in place on da bleachers/ they heated/ cuz back when they could reach us/ they neva reached out & now they claimin that they need us?/ Jesus, have mercy onn dem/ I say a lil prayer as I'm adjusting my brim/ prolly walkin 'round wit navy boots or some timbs/ either way, they painted on, they like ooo that's him/ canvaskiller, the art is dope, I'm a drug dealer/ will shoot the fair one no problem but I know slug fillers/ chill Will/ all these niggas know that you the real deal/ & if they don't they prolly think that Stacey Dash is real still/ thinkin bout greatness, give a damn bout what you think/ prayin for my city, cuz they want us all extinct/ put lead in the water, & tell us that it's safe to drink/ & crooked ass police is head huntin on the corners/ pullin guns from their holsters, puttin lead in our daughters/ yellow tape caution/ blood stained concrete/ no trial for the cop, so he still out walkin/ it feel like the 60's, I ain't marchin like Martin/ but I'm leader 'a the pack for the artists/ paintin and rappin, mufucka ima mARTyr/ Hook Workin on my trust, my niggas think that I don't need em/ I just hope they care enough to figure out the real reason/ lost a lot 'a friends but I bet that if you ask em they gon say we still cool just cuz niggas got a past/ but that 'ont mean shxt/ I had to cut em off quick/ & now a nigga gettin better like I just beat cancer/ don't question my motives 'less you ready for the answer/ steppin over Tyron Lues' who wasn't ready for the handles/ I got the hot hand, reachin right under the mantle/ writin hits on top 'a hits & you boys can't hold a candle/ to this shxt here/ & just this year/ I switched the whole culture let's just make that clear/ let's just make that clear/ Team Coop

W: Dear Lord, I ask you for the courage to release these burdens. & the strength to withstand those who don't understand my decision. B: I've decided my pain is medicine. A beautiful remedy for the sick and the helpless, help us. W: The meek and the voiceless, depressed and the hopeless. And I pray for the addicts too, shxt I was high when I wrote this. B: Trying to stay focused, humbly devoted, tasked with the mission to take my pain and expose it. Masked with the swagger of a pastor, ima master of disguise. Look closely & see the shame in my eyes. W: & pardon me for cursin. I just take this so personal, I trust you w/ the things that not a lot of other persons know. I'm haunted by my past, it makes my present seem so worth it doe. B: God, help me see the God in me. This world is like a desert tryna **drain me of my self esteem. I am beautiful, I am never conquered, lay my life down for my beliefs. I do not know defeat. W: I believe I am a king. All I know is chasin dreams, parables in vision form, im just learnin what they mean. I'll die by what I'm livin for, I'll live my dreams by any means. B: Necessary pain, but now I've grown Eagle wings. Fly above the weather, oh this feels much betta. My heart was kinda heavy now it's lighter than a featha'. Shinin on your situation, hoping that this love's contagious. W: I can smell precipitation. Time to rule, I know what reign is, forgive me of my sins, wash me clean, cuz I know I'm tainted. Relieve me of my shame, before the fame, now I'm feelin shameless. B: Shameless, shameless. We gon change the game wit this. Gossipers be takin shots, we gon switch they aim with this. I am who I am, a child of God spittin Angel dust, get high or realize if you can't fly then you can't hang wit us

B: We back, we back, tell the whole world that we back. Grew up across the globe, now my whole fam on the map. Pray for the troops in Flint.  pray for the troops in Chiraq. Our generation is missin a voice, we on da way just relax. W: woo! I can feel the shift/ listen up if you know what this is/ listen even closer if you have no idea/ CKC, TEAMCOOP we was born to win, yea/ let that blow in the wind/ makin sales now my cash on swim/ don't sink, I float/ don't need lifeboats/ left stroke right stroke/ shxt I'm paintin again/ I'm a mufuxkin artist boy what you expect?/ it's off wit yo head if you come at my neck/ it's prolly bout bread if I answer a text/ & I'm prolly gettin head while you beggin for sex/ off that, what's next?/ all I want is money, power, respect/ all I want is love & wealth for my set/ I paid all my dues time to pay off these debts/ & I'm bound to do shxt that you'll never forget/ I always stay down I see why you upset/ and don't come around if you act like a fed cuz we show no respect if you serve and protect/ blew a blunt to the head/ white smoke in the air/ see a canvas and I see red/ & fuxk all cops who patrol on the block just to aim when they see heads/ if not for God, then I'd be dead/ I could be next/ ain't that some shxt/ well I'll be damned/ as long as I'm here, ima stay my path/ ima paint my life and ima live like twice/ lil buddy ima get this cash B: Homie relax, relax. Our season is coming like tax. They killin the niggas we got while we waitin on Malcolm X. Nigga get back, cuz we strapped, and these bullets don't know where you at. We came to shoot up the game wit these caps which you don't wanna catch like a flat W: this...art is legal tender/ I make big bread off commissions/ I can vividly remember bein in the dark and paintin pictures/ cuz my power out, ain't have no food, ain't even wash my dishes/ I was down and out but makin moves, no time for makin wishes/ listen/ I'm overly defensive/ about my kindred & my visions/ pissin niggas off who listen/ bitxhin/ cuz I get attention/ I can't help what I was given/ winnin fans wit every picture/ livin life without no ceilings/thinking ain't no competition/ fuxk the world and fuxk yo feelins/ if you love em, hide yo women/ cuz they love they 'selves some Willie/ if you doubt it call up Welvin screamin/ "Who don't get no bitxhes" nigga/ I will bet the richest nigga/ I ain't botta argue wit you, just put it on my tab/ came in the game and made my name baby, I put that on my dad/ Fresh Prince, No Heir it hurt his feelings/ I had to say my bad/ but dem feelins woulda killed me Pop if I ain't let em pass/ he said damn I understand/ Papa told me ima man/ & that made a youngin proud and if you real, you understand/ cuz I grew up in a home with just a mama & no dad/ I don't hold a thing against em/ I ain't worried bout the past/ that's my mufuxkin nigga now, we gon fight to make it last/ believe dat B: it's been a long time coming, now we on the map. Praise due to the most high for these prophecies turned fact. Born to lose, built to win. Me and my kin, never leave again. Nigga we back W: this the last verse so I gotta finish strong/ Will & Bas$quiat on the mufuxkin song/ ima get you hip to the kinda shxt we on/ we speakin billion dollar thoughts every time we on da phone/ like ay, wudup wudup, what you doin/ shxt I, just got up & just start paintin/ how bout you, are you recording ?/ shxt, when you done send dat shxt over/ the art is crazy the grind is worser/ blessed to know that we broke the curse cuz/ sent from heaven to rule on earth/ I'm always puttin my family first/ we killed this shxt, nigga I hearsed the verse/ we paid our dues now reimburse us/ flawed like all but the flow is perfect/ I'm past the surface/ I smashed the serpent/ niggas mad that I mastered purpose/ damn it's worth it

If you ain't botta die for it, baby you ain't livin/ everything I touch is gold/ so gold is how I'm feelin/ golden aura, golden mind, trophy queens, golden women/ I'm racin to my goals/ I'm in it til I'm finished I stopped workin hard and I started workin smarter/ & now my name is known and bein mentioned wit the martyrs/ the Basquiats', the Pablos', baby I'm Will Porter/ I'm what the people need/ shxt I'm what the culture ordered/ I don't fuxk wit culture vultures, ima eagle/ got the vision/ never needed bifocals, look me in my eyes I'm focused/ I see it then I'm at it like I tagged it in a post/ & I ain't braggin or boastin I'm just more honest than most/ live and die by my art baby put that in a quote/ that's what I ask em when they comin at my throat/ that's what I ask em when they all up in my inbox/ if you ain't coppin then kick rocks/ & no, I do not do discounts/ I'm hungry for dis shxt I'll eat whatever beef you dish out/ go off wit the head & I don't mean eatin yo bitxh out/ I'm talkin sharp blades/ cut you a new fade/ and if you eva throw shade/ it get dark where you at/ cuz I'm blackin, I'm trained to go/ niggas in park where you at/ my reign comin, reign with an E/ need Noah's ark where you at/ mind over matter and you don't matter/ as a matter of fact/ my flow is in tact/ it cannot be hacked/ I'll put money on it, my flow is a stack/ don't like quick money, easy cheese often come wit a trap/ leave dat for da rats/ please stay where you at/ & don't tell me shxt unless it's real as a fact Cuz you ain't gotta lie for it nigga stop fibbin/ everything I touch is cold/ so cold is how I'm feelin/ frozen flow/ froze in time/ drinks on ice/ neva spillin/ chasin dreams not hoes, man/ that love shxt is for tennis/ have you ever looked a king in his eyes?/ I'm not a human, I'm a God in disguise/God body, praise to Allah/ sent from the God in the skies/ I send a prayer up for the lost souls who don't want me to rise/ these gifts are for you, if you ain't knowin, nigga surprise/ unwrap these lines, take the words as a sign/ I made this lane & now I'm speedin/ blowin trees I got my reasons/ get off my ass, where you learn how to drive?/ I had six senses since a nigga was five/ saw my first body at the young age of nine/ neighbors is cryin/ they mama dead/ victim of suicide/ killed on a Sunday, early mornin, broad day, she outside/ gun in her hand & her brains by her side/ ever since then I been dreamin bout dyin/ so I wake up just to kill canvas, it gives me so much peace of mind/ cuz if I die before I make it I know my family fine/ fuxk rich, we gon be wealthy/ mark my word it's our time/ man this song so fuxkin real I had to hold back from cryin/ this the realest shxt I ever wrote/ I swear I ain't lyin & if a nigga die/ don't cry/ keep livin/ I'm just glad I touched ya soul wit the gifts that I was given/ spoken word, killin canvas/ lyric spittin/ it was written/ I brought it full circle/ I'm just fulfilling scripture

For all you niggas aiming at my head, I got another one. She asked me if I wanted more head, I got another one. Ay, I see you bobbin yo head. I got another one. Will Porter, Bas$quiat & Shae, a 3 headed monster B: you can tell by what's on my feet/ I'm a head hancho/ head huntin, pull up on a nigga like "you said somn?"/ wearin ponchos won't keep you safe/ from this brainstorming/ pourin, pourin, pourin/ yes the style is foreign/ it ain't hard to tell/ glory, glory, glory/ how you get the title Bas?/ that's another story/ judge my past, I'll take them allegations/ turn em into allegories/ I'm turnin pages, countin money/ countin blessings, turn up on em/ oo they mad/ dropped 'a album, dropped a movie/ raised the prices got the people raising hands Hook S: I'm Le'Boss wit the pen, I'm cool/ rippin through em like the denim do/ the best advice I can give to you is don't come for me 'less I send for you/ start of true religion, yes it's in my genes/ we don't follow suit. King, King & Queen/ undefeated til we get a ring/ this the team you ain't neva seen/ make em jump like it's Kris Kross/ I'm Skylar Diggins wit the dish-off/ I dig in, they do the dishes/ got em deterred by the break of dawn/ rappin, educated monsta/ tell these niggas call me doctor/ can't nobody save you/ don't go to the light/ it's all white like the Oscar's Hook W: I'm a pharaoh baby/ building my kingdom piece by piece/ God is a sculptor my goddess gon be his masterpiece/ I roll dat Zulu up just like Shaka until I master peace/ I paint the vision so vivid just watch the master preach/ shout out hallelujah in blue hues, violets & greens/ say praise the Lord I'm the Huey Newton of artistry/ stop the violence let's teach before genocide is reached/ je ne sais quoi that's the Cooper steeze, it's all in my genes/ I'm on a mountaintop so high that I am past the peak/ I'm Martin King on April 3rd when he got out his seat to speak/ there ain't no fear in me/ enemies can clearly see the everlasting God in me/ that's why the NYPD tried to Oscar me/ they saw their souls on canvas/ & wanted me in handcuffs/ they wanna make examples of these ghetto Michaelangelos'/ they want us lightin candles/ & chantin negro anthems/ but I won't die/ won't lynch my art or my pride/ so you can treat it like a prize/ & have it hangin from yo mantle/ burning hella weed/ cuz life is such a challenge/balance in this life is all we need/ you screwed if you don't have it/graphic stories spillin from my speech/ it's still fuxk police/ cuz life out here is savage/ that red from a brush wit death ain't comin from no palette/ these white racists plottin, provin they want us off the planet/ these blue lives only practice puttin colors in a casket/ & don't get reprimanded?/ this is for my peeps wit no peace who just gotta have it/ so many tasteless acts make me toss & turn on my mattress/ retracting back to imagining pillows on top 'a palettes/ way before the palaces/manifesting dreams with the talents that I was handed/ while at the necks of these bastards/ supporting illegal mandates/ thought it was enough to address these things on a canvas/ I was wrong and shortly after I took a dive into rappin/ they see us and they hear us but those alone ain't impactful/ it's sick and it's kinda sad that bustin back sounds like the answer/ gun laws in my search results gon have to come in handy/ seein, hearing and feelin heat might make them boys overstand me/ cuz witnessing these killings has scarred the kid like a branding/ while brandishing fifths of Brandy to cope wit my father's passing

God had to break me all way down/ just to build me all way up/ life was all ocean boy I almost drowned/ thank the Lord I had my mind made up/ that I would pass any test, trial or obstacle/ my optical is so clear/ believing now that anything is possible/ faith got stronger/ started building with my father too/ Fresh Prince, No Heir had us beefin for a month or two/ he was uncomfortable/ hey, I couldn't blame him, I went at him on video/ he called me like really doe?/ you throwin salt on me and yo mama for the world to know?/ & hate being a Jr.?/ I just had to let my feelings show/ he ain't see the bigger picture/ all the love I got like "ay Will, bro I'm wit you. I know where you comin from word to my lil sister. Cuz our daddy wasn't there and we ain't even think he missed us."/ present on the telephone & absent on Christmas/ the feedback I got it outweighed his opinion/ like how you think I felt all dem years that you was missin/ built up more resentment/ heart cold, I'm from Michigan doe/ skin thick like that Michigan snow/ life had me tired, this my Michelin flow/ ya structure gon fall if the  base ain't shxt/ you gotta build it up strong homie, brick by brick/ if you gotta start over all it takes is the will/ choose ya bricks wisely and protect what you build/ sometimes ya building sturdy and its solid as steel, sometimes you destroy and rebuild × 3 They know ima hustler they can hear it in my voice/ I hadda get it out the mud cuz I ain't have no other choice/ I started as a youngin I been drawin since 5/ my teenage years is when is started my grind/ at age 17 is when I sold my first piece/ & by now about 105/ sold Prince & ever since homie I'm a fuxkin king on my side/ squint ya eyes if you allergic to shine/ in my lifetime/ den seen some wild shxt, I'm amazed I'm in my right mind/ I write rhymes & speak through paintins, you read em like signs/ bad thing beside me, boy my lady & my art fine/ I told myself I'm dope from the jump/ ain't need a cosign/ dope art, cold wine/ dope art gold mine/ gold mind, gold mind/ all glory to God, he gimme light and then we both shine/ oh my, oh my/ gotta tell my story/ vision 20/20 like son who own the 40/40's/ grew up 40 mins from the birthplace of Berry Gordy/ 90s baby/ Flint town native/ stayed til 12/ then VA taught me/ that home is where the heart is/ & my heart is where the art is/ so as long as I'm an artist/ I'm at home wherever God is/ cuz he blessed me with this rappin/ & the talent/ to kill canvas/ so when my pen hit this pad/ you should know what's botta happen/ ima treat it like a canvas/ ima do this shxt wit passion/ ain't no questioning my talent/ I'm the answer if you asking/ shxt I leveled up the day I finally figured out my balance/ when I meditated/ levitated/ mind became a palace/ it was worth it but a challenge/ this life get hard/ so I hustle hard then I pray to God that I hustle smart/ I hope you hit yo mark for you lame niggas who throwin darts/ cuz I brush haters off wit the same brush that I use for art/ show yo true colors and watch me paint wit em/ I got niggas mad right now cuz I won't be fake wit em/ boohoo cry a lake for them/ shxt it's too late for them/ no time for movin backwards/ won't catch me at the starting gate again bitch