[Intro]
Yeah
Semtex what up
Back in the building
You know Sem was actually the first person to welcome me into this country
So it feels good to be home
Shout out to Mtrnica, shout out to Nikita
Chicago to London, Vic Mensa we in the building

[Verse 1]
A year ago to this day
I was sitting in a jail cell I bailed out 20K and told the judge the farewell
365 days later had 50k people at the festival it barely feels real
I rewrote my narrative out of sheer will
The first of my family heritage to see a mill
I come from a poverty-stricken Ghanaian system
Slum villages with no running water conditions
Pops came to America, they locked me in prison
First time I had visions seeing a crack rock
6th grade, [?] had it on a black top
The white boy put it in tin foil and passed out
Ashley in the back alley taking back shots
That was the same Christmas that I got an Xbox
Gang members from back then now got a halo
Black Stones throwing the five like they was Thanos
Knock a n***a out and grab his shoes like Fabo
When Collie Park was doing the snap dance
I dreamed I'll be on top of the hood like dash cam
Where pops prey I don't be another murdered black man
93 boys, serving bagged grams
Killing them soft like a Roberta Flack jam
I'm going hard, Vic Iron Man
You cross your own circle like a venn diagram
I see n***as pour lean turn dope fiends they brains addicted to chemicals in the morphine
You rap about drug use to get you more streams
While shorties ODing on fetty at 14
This whole cultures convoluted for real
That sickness why my kind of movement ill
Just the thing, I emerge the same moment as drill
But I never killed no one I just got a human appeal
That, musical skill and truth to reveal
Record labels fucking n***as, kamasutra deals
They don't break artists they take what you could build
Put that red dot on your head I'll shoot to kill
Hand-painted LV duffle bag college girls on my dick, never did undergrad
Don't try to run up on me thinking I'm a MC
You know keep a hammer on me make you do the running man
Still in the field check my rushing yards we'll crash your double
R like it was bumper cars
Bumba clart boy don't want war if you was on the same golf hole with me you couldn't get up to par
[Break]
All right wait let it play
Let it play
Alright Peezy bring me back in

[Verse 2]
A decade in the industry I still feel like I'm just getting started
Even though I did 02 arena and the garden
Any artists on a major label get a audit
Regardless I'II be with more fives than kindergarten
No matter how many gangsters you got in your cypher
Them contract loopholes too hard to decipher
You be on the beat thinking you harder than lifers
You just a corporate slave to bargaining prices
Uh, talking the hardest because I'm the nicest
Blew up before I grew up like a child joining Isis, or
Kalief Browder in Rikers I'm on the island where the Indiana James chain in my gold medallion
Yo-yo ma we prone to violence game full of scammers I’m here to restore the balance
Could have balled for Dallas keep a 40 cal boy caught me with a magazine, now I'm in the tabloids
Had a dream then I woke up in a Lamborghin
Trying to reach Nirvana like I'm in Aberdeen
My n***as still trapping lean they scamming they scheme
Punching moves like Jagger, no Adam Levine
I'II skate out on a bitch like Avril Lavigne Semtex (Ooh)

[Outro]
Semtex Vic Mensa in the building
Chicago to London
Shoreditch Vic back in the building
Man you know the time it is
Man you remember Shoreditch Vic
I'm back on that, let's go