BUILDING 6

Building 6! (Six!) Ninth floor! (Nine!)

Elevator broke so we built our own climb

Building 6! (Six!) Ninth floor! (Nine!)

Took the stairs so long that my legs don't tire

Who made it out? (Me!) Who made it out? (Me!)

Every flight I ran is a bar in my mouth

Stairwell smell like bleach and somebody's dinner

Third floor, Miss Pat, she gon' feed you if you thinner

Fifth floor, the light been out since I was eleven

Learned to count the steps in the dark, there's forty-seven (count 'em)

Lost Dre in the lobby, never made it to the grass

They put a candle by the mailbox, nobody walk past

I ain't rappin' 'bout the smoke 'cause the smoke took my friends

I'm rappin' 'bout the roof, how the city look from ten

Mama worked the hospital, doubles, then the bus

Came home, soaked her feet, never said a word to us

So I don't do the cryin', I just do the math

Every show is one month's rent that she ain't gotta ask

Building 6! (Six!) Ninth floor! (Nine!)

Elevator broke so we built our own climb

Building 6! (Six!) Ninth floor! (Nine!)

Took the stairs so long that my legs don't tire

They want me talkin' reckless, they want bodies in the verse (nah)

I seen what that cost and I ain't payin' for the hearse

Got little cousins listenin', they know every word

So I'ma tell 'em how to leave, not how to get served

Landlord never fixed it but he never missed the first

Now I'm lookin' at the building like "how much is it worth?" (how much?)

That ain't a flex, that's a plan, I want the deed and the keys

Fix the elevator first, name the lobby after Dre's

They said the ones like me don't see twenty-one

I'm twenty with a lawyer and a fund. Watch me run.

Forty-seven steps.

I can do 'em with my eyes closed.

Building 6! (Six!) Ninth floor! (Nine!)

Elevator broke so we built our own climb

Building 6! (Six!) Ninth floor! (Nine!)

Took the stairs so long that my legs don't tire

Who made it out? (Me!) Who made it out? (Me!)

Now I'm comin' back down with the keys. Building 6!