Welcome to Max

Intro

(uh-huh) Max on the gate, max on the map, ayy

(ride the beat) clang-clang, doors shut, let it snap

Chorus

Welcome to Max, welcome to Max (welcome, welcome)

Welcome to Max, welcome to Max (clink, clink)

Cold steel, cold floor, cold facts (cold facts)

Welcome to Max, welcome to Max

Welcome to Max, welcome to Max (yeah)

Welcome to Max, welcome to Max (uh-huh)

You step inside, you learn the rules, you learn the cracks

Welcome to Max, welcome to Max

Verse

Skrrt, I pulled up where the lights hang low, block twelve, no glow

Concrete sermon, prayers on hold, every face a frozen show, yuh

Steel bite on every door, names carved on the floor

Time stacks, visions black, dreams locked at the core

I move like a rumor in the yard, low talk, short sparks

Count at dawn, count at dark, breath visible like marks

Warden's eyes like a ledger, tally up the sins and the ledger

Knuckles white on the railing, you learn to measure pressure, ayy

Smokestack morning, orange tray, same soup, different day

Tattoos tell stories that the guard won't say (nah)

Snaps of the chainmail, footsteps like a drum

You either learn the rhythm or you learn to run

Blocks whisper discipline (no—), blocks shout the past (watch it)

Every alley got a secret, every signal moves fast

I carved my name in the margin, passed it like contraband

Lessons in the margins, man, survival had a plan

No pity, only practice, no soft hands in this class

We trade silence for safety, breathe slow, count the glass

Chorus

Welcome to Max, welcome to Max (welcome, welcome)

Welcome to Max, welcome to Max (clink, clink)

Cold steel, cold floor, cold facts (cold facts)

Welcome to Max, welcome to Max

Welcome to Max, welcome to Max (yeah)

Welcome to Max, welcome to Max (uh-huh)

You step inside, you learn the rules, you learn the cracks

Welcome to Max, welcome to Max

Verse

Listen, bones memorize the concrete, body learns the code (ayy)

The block got a rhythm like a metronome, tick-tock, reload

Night shift humming, radio dead, only footsteps talk

A dog bayls, a latch clicks, a trumpet cough on the block

I keep my head tucked low, but my mind runs patrol

Maps of routes in the ceiling tiles, maps of holes in my soul

Letters folded pocket-tight, ink like blood on the fold

Promises made in the dark, promises sold

They name it Max like final, like the end of the line

But the ones inside know it's chapters, it's time to refine

I sharpen verbs into weapons — speech, not steel

Words ricochet, words bind, words help you heal

Bar routine, bar rules, bar names like scars

We play our hands like cards in a deck with missing parts

Trust is currency that devalues quick, trust is taxed

Love is a rumor here, hope is a rumor taxed

But we keep slang for the sunrise, keep jokes for the chow

We trade jokes for a second where the world feels less loud

I seen men fold, men stand, men change like the weather

I seen kin be