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Animated Ambition Lyrics by ​theMIND

2016

[Intro: Mick Jenkins]
Can you turn the beat up a little bit more in my headphones?
Yeah
Run it
Woo
Run it
Uh

[Chorus: theMIND]
When I was young thought I'd grow up, be a cartoon (Cartoon, cartoon)
Used to be Rugrat, now I'm black Tommy Pickles tapped up in a costume (Costume, costume)
Tryna get out of that, pardon my reach, but I need to change the channel (Change the channel)
Non-eyes I have seen my battle (My battle)
These scenes ain't made for children (Children)
Lord, help me, I've been feelin' grown (I've been feelin' grown)

[Verse 1: Mick Jenkins]
All I ever wanted was a young Patti Mayonnaise
Thinking we can make some cold cuts
Like planters we go nuts and plant seeds
And grow us and take naps, no, you can't comb us
Never met Wilder (Met Wilder), young T.J. Detweiler
I mean what I'm trying to say is I'm an advocate for recess
To prevent a rapid regress, tryna make it last forever
Young Keith Sweat going beast mode
Niggas feel so close, still far away, and I'm only one yard away
So I can't be in it for the pennies, other niggas learn the harder way
I see nothing godly 'bout Charlamagne
It's either hot tea or it's water out the flutes like a Chardonnay
So pardon me for coming at a jagged edge
With a grill like Cardi B, but I will hardly be (Hardly be)
Just a Gerald to some football head, nigga, hardly me
No Tom and Jerry cons, fuck a hit, I'm not Barry Bonds
That's on my soul til' they bury me

[Chorus: theMIND]
When I was young thought I'd grow up, be a cartoon (Cartoon, cartoon)
Used to be Rugrat, now I'm black Tommy Pickles trapped up in a costume (Costume, costume)
Trying to get out of that pardon my reach, but I need to change the channel (Change the channel)
Non-eyes I have seen my battle (Battle)
These scenes ain't made for children (Children)
Lord, help me, I've been feelin' grown (I've been feelin' grown)

[Verse 2: Noname]
And you can really think that the money don't matter when the drums come in
All my raps are for sale and my cigarette bleeding
Like the hallelujah catalogs of lungs I'm in
I've been drifting for a minute with my body in the water of a slaughter
Like they really might give it to the Donald, playing the Trump card
I know White America dreams in all black
Dark conundrum for genocide happy as Kodak (Kodak)
Smile for the picture like you safe and they love you
Smile for the picture like they love you, lonely
Nina Simone, envision her like Zoe
History would die in the empty of a shadow
A battle in the war zone on the forefront of the news
Blues, blackberry tragic and tragic
I know I'm getting money when the drums come in (Drums come in)
And I know my mama safe for a minute, a minute (A minute)
(Oh, oh, oh, oh)

[Chorus: theMIND]
When I was young thought I'd grow up, be a cartoon (Cartoon, cartoon)
Used to be Rugrat, now I'm black Tommy Pickles trapped up in a costume (Costume)

[Bridge: Jesse Boykins III]
The money never make no man like me, man like me
But lately, the money is all I see
The money never make no man like me, man like me
But lately, the money is all I see
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​theMIND

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