Although this wasn't my first love,
I wouldn't change a thing about it
A ball player
Guess some things gon' change from how you found it
I fall later
For music, so my passion sprouted
Hungry for a seat at the table
Where all the greats surround it
Hip hop mixed with R&B was fed to me in masses
Earphones with a hoodie on inside of all my classes
Fuck these notes I'm writing rhymes Ms. Johnson
Kiss my ass, bitch
I'm making history of my own
Expect to feel ecstatic
I'm a savage
A profit that hold talent
Something sounding different that's just me breaking old habits
The game is watered down
And I can't stand on that shit
Came up off legends being real competitive when rapping
Now I can't say what happened
We lost our way imma save it
I'm reaching for the feeling we had when bumping old Kendrick
When Cole was dropping felt like every week the radio spinnin'
That Power Trip was on repeat walking to school I was winning
I do this for the type of feeling we all had way back
The past is not the past won't let y'all stray away from the facts
Fuck the fame
They throw their life away for any lil' stack
My only question that I have is "How y'all doing with that?"
What we gon' do with the cap?
I'm tryna boot this fake rap
Drug music, thug music
And you think that it slaps
This ain't no dig at my real drillas earning meals through the trap
I love my folks
But they know Tony can rap
Real rap
This for the love of music
This for the love of music
I got a voice and imma use it in this booth lil' baby
For the love of music
I have no choice yeah imma do it how I do lil' baby
For the love of music
For the love of music
Therapeutic sessions keep this pressure off my chest
It help me cope with feelings I've compressed
I love this music more than every single muscle fiber you can flex
No competing or comparing to the best of 'em
Let alone the rest of 'em
Part time rappers that never seen the walls to overcome
Long time coming
This wasn't forced and I ain't Obi-Wan
Part of the reason that I take pride in every verse I lace
Most of the reason that I'm so grateful for how far I've come
I didn't make it here to brag about the hands that I been shaking
Or the plans that I've been making
I do this for the feelings that I felt when i was bumping Section.80
In the basement
The high that I was chasing
For the love of music
This for the love of music
I got a voice and imma use it in this booth lil' baby
For the love of music
I have no choice yeah imma do it how I do lil' baby
For the love of music
For the love of music
I always loved this east coast
I implemented my slang
But I'm strictly from the Bay I'll say it in everyone's face
40 Water in the morning
Biggie ends off my day
I knew I had to take some part in this game
So I did it my way
Hand is cramping, but this pen don't stop
My choice of coping, I ain't speaking a lot
I don't expect to earn the world and all the pearls for all the credit to pop
But I spit shit I know you suckas cannot
Bitch, I'm cooking to plot
Say you doing what it takes, but you thought
Making songs for the attention of thots
You knew that she was a bop
Now you shocked that she gold digging for watch
Bitch, I urge to get yo ass a lil' job
Now you look at that clock
(This for the love of music)
This for the love of music
I got a voice and imma use it in this booth lil' baby
For the love of music
I got no choice yeah imma do it how I do lil' baby
For the love of music
For the love of music