Never A Slave

Intro

The dark raised me up before the light ever knew my name

survival out here in these streets ain't never been a game

the block don't give a fuck about your dreams or your plans at all

it takes everything it wants and just watches you fall.

Beat Starts

Verse 1: Denzel Curry

Born where demons know your address by heart

raised on trauma tearing every shorty apart

life designed before I had words to fight

every morning I reignited the night

fury burning in a kid earning breath

navigating concrete inches from death

past the corner past the grave they dug

they wrote my name — I never was a thug

for them — I was something they couldn't tame.

Draco on my lap riding through the rain

chrome on the seat every story the same

forty spoke before my pen ever woke

block language was the only tongue I spoke

pistol and pen held in the same hand

tried to take me out — still here I stand

universe said I had a different road

block kept watching me carry the load.

Riding windows up through the city black

every opp that tested never came back

built from every bullet scar and night

surviving was the only thing keeping right

hunger in the chest the block couldn't kill

raised me cold still standing here still

every demon sent arrived too late

darkness made me what they said I couldn't make.

System built the zip code as a cage

every gifted kid converting the rage

into something the block would recognize

Mac-10 in the whip opps couldn't disguise

fear of what the block produced from odds

survived planted fury — now it nods

back from every stage I ever stood

every bar every night misunderstood.

Hook

Survived the block survived the night

every scar built me for the fight

darkness near built from pain

never letting go of the flame.

Verse 2: Denzel Curry

AK in the back riding slow and low

block gave it free I gave back what I know

refused the trade traded bars for more

every nigga plotting caught forty at the door

shot before they knew what hit em back

nightmare wearing crowns of every crack

crown gets heavier every year I climb

pull up tinted midnight every time.

Darkness following since the day of birth

every step I take calculating worth

city gritty where the system meets the block

same machine designed to put dreams in lock

came from nothing built it from the chest

every bar a wound put to the test

record that don't flinch don't apologize

brought the darkness raw — no compromise.

Don't rap for comfortable rap for ones

had nothing but the corner loaded guns

prayer that tomorrow hit different today

every midnight coming back in bars I play

hitting harder than a hollow tip at night

been the nightmare gonna stay the nightmare right

past every opp past every cold design

the nightmare raised me and the nightmare mine.

Forty on the seat sliding through the block

every fake nigga plotting watch the clock

clock ticking since before they knew the name

built from every loss every scar every flame

took it all converted every piece

turned the fury into something that won't cease

past the block past the cold past the grave

the darkness built me — I was never a slave.

Hook

Survived the block survived the night

every scar built me for the fight

darkness near built from pain

never letting go of the flame.

Verse 3: Denzel Curry

Last verse carved so the stone don't forget

raised through every cold December wet

sunshine covering darkness at the core

every bar a different body of war

against system turning shorties to stats

before they had a chance — converting that.

Mac-10 chrome forty on my chest

every decision staying alive was best

monster growing past the grave they dug

past the corner past the system past the drug

of comfort keeping me small and quiet

I turned the silence into fury and riot

built from nothing built to outlast the cold —

the nightmare never ends.

Never.

That's all.