accolade

Ugh, school flunky, pill junkie

But look at the accolades, these skills brung me

Full of myself, but still hungry

Are they just metaphors for the odds of me comin' back again?

Cause all the accomplishments, accolades, awards

And trophies just don't mean jack anymore

My newfound life made all of me magnified

How many accolades do I need to block denial?

The shock value of my success put bolts in me

Fuck you, still can't believe I used to trust you (used to trust you)

The only accolade you ever made is that I fucked you

You a bitch, if you get the chance, I bet you snitch

Talkin' long money, but they conversation's short

New accolades with women for me to toss

They call it, the road to riches, regardless, I had to walk

I'm selfish, I need all that

No accolade escape

See I be sittin' in the grave

I'm selfish, I need all that

No accolade escape

See I be sittin' in the grave

I took a shuttle on a shockwave ride

Where people on the pen pull the trigger for accolades

I took a bullet and I looked inside it

Jigga's style is love, X and O

Save all your accolades, just the dough

My game is wide, all lames aside

But I can recollect a memory that I have forgotten

Cut your ties, believed your lies, your final accolade

But every mistake I've ever made (has led me right here)

I broke down a few more barricades

Got me a few more accolades

Used to look forward to the weekend

There's somethin' more that I need

Than accolades and sympathy

Fatiguin' in the summer heat

Nothing matters more we can't be tamed

Fighting through the din and accolades

Turn the phase around with razor blades

Not from Philly but a nigga done hustled them hilltops

Commercial pop artists get all the accolades

I give a million cash away to be revered like Donny Hathaway

On some prima donna shit, finna throw it all away

I don't need no accolades, boy I'm here to act a fool

Ask about me, had the shotty, robbin' niggas at the school

Movin throught every town off the fumes of...

And accolades of the crowd with our chests out proud

Yo, we bout to pack these joints so that these... sound loud

Now they seein' they worst fears as I bathe in cheers

Parades and accolades all shades and ages

It's me the outrageous my zeal contagious

Then Peter spoke to make of them a tabernacle place

A cloud appeared in glory as an accolade

They fell on the ground

Unending streams of ruined dreams

Empty accolades feel like razor blades

Leaving me wanting more

My greatest achievement isn't the followers

My greatest achievement isn't the accolades

My greatest achievement is my daughter

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With more rewards and accolades, then anyone before or after

21st century, oh what a shame, what a shame

Her estimated evacuation of the shit that they infatuated with

The paper, accolades, and reputation

Speaking for me I ain't saying shit

Before they broke our records we broke records and wrote pieces, of history

So These Days? These accolades that's meant for we?

It's only truth that this shit was meant to be

(Now that song just doesn't sound the same)

I would trade it all, my glory days and accolades completely, yeah, yeah

(Just to have her here again)

Poised for the hit parade

Knee deep in accolades

The conceptual pair

Let's gather round the carcass of the old deflated beast

We've seen it through the accolades and rested in its lea

Syntactic is our elegance, incisive our disease

I ain't saying that I'm bragging babe

I just like to celebrate my accolades

Push it to the limit, like a big body benz

40-odd years later, all my best cards have been played

Well, it's a hard knock situation, when the accolades bestowed

On your every last creation cries out middle of the road

You were lost in the smokescreens of cavalcades

And accolades instead of traitor's pay

Where will you find the courage to say

Flatbush all day but they don't know what my hood about

I'm so good without your props and accolades

Crackin like whips on the back of slaves, spittin on the master's grave

Is when it's purring at your side

Purring at your side, accolades and honors

One false move and you're a goner

On that tombstone in the shade

No poem written, no accolade

No 'We loved you' ever sprayed

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I don't expect accolades

I don't expect prizes