Expectations - Robert Glasper, Baby Rose, Rapsody

Fuck your expectations

Fuck your resignations

Fuck your validation

Same for entertainment

In these situations, trials and tribulations

It get’s frustratin'

Wonder if I’ll ever make it

Fuck your expectations

Fuck your resignations

Fuck your validation

The same for entertainment

In these situations, with stipulations

It get’s frustratin'

I won’t be intimidated

Yeah… you played yourself (why'd you do that?)

Bunch of torn ACL’s

Trying to raise me my marathon like ATLs (Yeah)

So bust through the door HGLs

Rose, they bet against me Kendrick and Cole, K.R.I.T

That famous shit (yeah), we never begged for it (never)

Grabbed the game by the balls without showing a tit (ha)

Still milked it ho, ya own 2% (wow)

But I be on em like OWN, Oprah Winfrey (Oprah)

This one is for all the (yeah)

Ya’ll used to talk about rap being ugly and black

Now I am pretty much the greatest (now)

Expected me to fall, did it 9 times

Now ya’ll see I’m in my 10th year

Count my winnings (ha)

Look into the future, I don’t see no ending (nah)

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, yeah I’m still ascending (fo' sho)

Expected ya’ll to do better by us

But we looking towards everyone but us depending (ah)

On them to give a fuck (give a fuck)

I don’t wear Gucci, for you for us (yeah)

Only labels I give dollars to and trust (come on)

You can throw shots, don’t expect me to duck (no)

I’m on yo' head, a rose in the concrete

Baby Rose tell these foes they can’t compete (tell 'em Rose)

See the god, they gonna see the god (uh)

Jehovah, Buddha, whoever that they pray to dog (whoever)

I ain’t the one, just for fun come

Battle in my head, a nigga been ready to run (bup bup bup)

Rap, expect that mother fucker' (mother fucker)

Expect that, none other (none other)

When the greatest call me the GOAT (rap)

Tell these niggas I don’t mean to gloat

But you know I got for real

Fuck your expectations

Fuck your resignations

Fuck your validation

Same for entertainment

In these situations, trials and tribulations

It get’s frustratin'

Trying to overtake it