Cold Crown Protocol (version 2)

Verse

Corner store sign still lit at noon

Empty bus route, engine turned to stone

Six years hustling just to cover rent

Never thought this block would hold a threat

Streetlight flickered out for weeks in April

Fire truck sirens woke the whole block's choir

Kids I grew up watching crossing every street

Now they're passing me on their own two feet

Pre-Chorus

Something shifted underneath the ground

I can feel it building, never letting down

Chorus

Rising from the concrete, this is mine now

Cold crown protocol, watch it break somehow

Every corner that once kept us low

We're the kings and queens the block forgot we'd be

Verse 2

Neon sign above the gym still flickers red

Corner store owner taught me how to read the ledger thread

Six figures coming in on a consistent flow

Nobody believed it, said I'm just living off a ghostly glow

Block party June, DJ spinning tracks from back home

Every face that used to fear me now is calling me their own

I built a company out of nothing but a loan

Watched the whole city start to copy what we've grown

Pre-Chorus

Something shifted underneath the ground

I can feel it building, never letting down

Chorus

Rising from the concrete, this is mine now

Cold crown protocol, watch it break somehow

Every corner that once kept us low

We're the kings and queens the block forgot we'd be

Bridge

They said I'd forget where I came from

They said the money would turn my blood to stone

I'm still crossing every street that raised me

Different kind of crown, different way of reigning

Chorus

Rising from the concrete, this is mine now

Cold crown protocol, watch it break somehow

Every corner that once kept us low

We're the kings and queens the block forgot we'd be