Key to the City - Kaleb Mitchell, Topi Mandela

This that «ooh I told you it was finna happen», but you ain’t believe me,

so I’m laughing at em

I failed math but when it come to wordplay I’m Gabby Douglas with the acrobatics

The bars flame I turn beats to ash, you better pay attention so you catch em all

And I ain’t close to my peak yet but I’m chewing rappers on my Jeffrey Dahmer,

oh man

Don’t come to me with the problems no

Don’t you know Mitchell be wylin', woah

Labels used to play possum aye

Now they tryna send deposits, woah

Honestly I done predicted this, God gave the vision I ran with it

They used to call me an amateur

Now they want features, they stalking my manager, woah

If you never learn a thing from me, I want you to know anything’s possible

That’s what my mother used to tell me everyday when she was up in that hospital

I was just a little nappy headed joker with a pencil and a pad

Now I’m on the verge of bringing everything to pass and I’m feeling like

(Hook)

I need the key to the city

I feel like, I need the key to the city

Stayed true, stayed down, so I came up

Man I need the key to the city

I feel like, yeah yeah, I need the key to the city

Man I need the key to the city

Yeah, yeah

(Verse 2: Topi Mandela)

Even on my darkest days trust me imma shine until I leave them dazed

No one saw this coming thought it was a phase, now I’m out here tryna redirect

the praise

G-O-D I’ll D-I-E before I Q-U-I-T quietly accumulate the numbers on em

Guess I gotta spaz all summer on em

This for every cold winter night in Michigan when I was sleeping on the floor

Momma on the phone, with the landlord, couldn’t even buy me candy at the store,

yeah

Pent up aggression I’m living to make a killin

Imma hero and a villain I do it for the civilians

Eyes on millions

Spare no feelings

Fuck being polite, police indict, kids who look like me in the streets at night,

uh

But I don’t wanna see my people suffer, even though the streets made me tougher

Relocated now I’m southern

I be rolling through Dallas

These hearts so careless, put my city on the atlas

(Hook)

I need the key to the city

I feel like, I need the key to the city

Stayed true, stayed down, so I came up

Man I need the key to the city

I feel like, yeah yeah, I need the key to the city

Man I need the key to the city

Yeah, yeah