By Any Means

This track takes its title from Malcolm X but applies it to street survival rather than political liberation — a contextualization that says something about how language and ideology get remixed through neighborhood experience. The production is dense and rolling, layered synths building a sense of escalation without quite arriving. Q's flow here is at its most technically forceful, syllables stacking with pressure and precision, each bar arriving with the momentum of the one before it. The track functions as a manifesto for doing what must be done in conditions of scarcity and threat, where conventional ethics become luxuries that certain zip codes cannot afford. Notably it doesn't romanticize this position — there's a hard-eyed clarity to the worldview, the sense of someone who has thought through the implications and accepted them. Best heard loud, at speed, when you need the world to get out of your way.