ROUTE 9W

(yeah) (9W) (uh)

9W, northbound, quarter tank (go!)

Notebook on the dash, that's the only thing I bank (go!)

Bridge toll, five, and I paid it with the change

Newburgh on my back, put respect up on the name

9W, northbound, windows cracked (go!)

Everything I wrote down, I'ma bring it all back

Clock in ten at night off 17K

Scan gun in my hand, that's eleven hours of "okay"

Break at two, fifteen minutes, that's a verse and a half

Wrote it on a pallet tag, supervisor had to laugh

Mama lift strangers out the bed for a living

Home health, twelve an hour, that's the math I was given

So don't tell me 'bout a chain, tell me what the chain cost

Tell me who was at the crib when the lights went off

Broadway wide as a runway, nothing taking off

Half the storefronts papered up, the other half is pawn

I ain't mad at the city, I'm mad at the split

They sold the river view and left us with the rent

9W, northbound, quarter tank (go!)

Notebook on the dash, that's the only thing I bank (go!)

Bridge toll, five, and I paid it with the change

Newburgh on my back, put respect up on the name

I count everything, that's the curse and the gift (count it)

Forty-one stairs at the crib, one light on the fritz

Two jobs on my cousin, three kids on my sis

Four hundred for the studio, I split it with Chris

They want the flex, I got receipts in a shoebox

Light bill, toll tags, pawn slip for the boombox

Got it back in March, that's the first thing I bought

Second thing was mama's tires. Third? I forgot (nah, I ain't forget)

Third was this notebook, black and white, wide ruled

Every page a dollar that I never gave to fools

You can keep the corner office, I'm a corner of the page

Where the ink run out is where I get paid

Beacon side got the galleries.

We got the view of the galleries.

(Same river.)

9W, northbound, quarter tank (go!)

Notebook on the dash, that's the only thing I bank (go!)

Bridge toll, five, and I paid it with the change

Newburgh on my back, put respect up on the name

9W, northbound, windows cracked (go!)

Everything I wrote down, I just brought it all back