The fourth track of 2009’s The Warm Up serves as a now-prophetic story detailing the ambition and hunger Cole possessed coming into the rap game. Sprinkled with handfuls of clever homonymic wordplay and a vicious rhyme scheme for a closing verse, Cole recounts his abrupt transcendence into the fast life of a celebrity.

This marks the second installation of Cole’s Simba theme, followed by “Return of Simba” and preluded by “Simba.” Inspired by the story of 1994’s The Lion King, Cole correlates his own story of patiently waiting to take the throne as king of the rap game to young Simba’s similar anticipation of becoming king of the jungle.