(When I graduated high school, I decided to focus on music)
(It was one of the hardest things to watch all my homies in school, 'specially the schools I coulda went to)
(I feel like everyone around me was progressing, and I was at a standstill)
(Man, I was doing a lot of reading. I realized you have to recognize your own process, and it cant be measured by anything but happiness)
(Just remember your journey is the most important part of the story)

Yeah, whoa
Last year was so cold, a lot of good really came from it though
Had to perfect all my rhymes and flows
Hella hate coming, that's how it goes

But I've been built for this shit
Kinda hurts though, I'll admit
But I can't stop, can't just quit, ayy
I don't like to let fears dictate what I'm about to do next

I just do me, in doing so, I hope I earn some respect
I'm starting to see the effects
Things I gotta accept
That the real life ain't real, just a vision of what you project

When I realized that I couldn't go back
Fuck am I doing if it ain't just rap
Fuck am I doing if I ain't stacking racks in the Tampa Bay, yeah
This real life shit can't waste no time, gotta make this way, yeah

Give a fuck about trying to tell me it's really just out of my range, yeah
Been ghost, been hard to stay sober
Had to learn how to keep my composure
Thinking back now I finally found closure

Now I've never been closer
To my dreams, and my goals, and the ones that I do it for
Give a fuck about trying to impress
Don't feel the need anymore

I'm only trying to elevate
Can't waste my time with lames who just really wanna take my place
I promise I can't fuck with that, no
So stop trying to hit my phone

Talking shit like put me on bro
Now you mad cause I'm getting too close
To what I work for, you see it
Vision so clear, had to be delusional to believe it

And best believe I manifested this life since the beginning
So I'ma keep chasing the thrill
Driving straight to the depths of hell
One hand barely on the wheel, yeah

Huh, and I don't expect nobody to see
What the come up boutta to be
So unless you really know me
Please stop trying to talk to me