You

(album: STILL (Five & A F*** You) [Deluxe] - 2023)

You paved a lane in this rap biz
Made a way for these black kids
Paint your pain for the masses
Ain't the same as these bastards
Escaped the chains and the shackles
While these lame niggas baffled
This talent in tandem with randomness this game is a raffle
Coulda been in this position at a younger age
But maybe then my hunger fades
Coulda signed a bad deal and be underpaid
Or made 100 mil and maybe coulda died 100 ways
Cold winter nights and hot summer days
It's easy to become a slave when tryna put food on them plates
And shoes on your jits you losing cause you moving in place
Feel like you losing a race, maybe my shoes isn't laced
Paid all my dues and I faced
What only a few could embrace
A sinner for do gooders sake
I'm sparring and dueling with snakes
So still keep a tool on my waist
But now they can google me wait
Used to be scan dekalb
Life will knock you on yo ass if you don't land a jab
I played the hand I had and got my fam a bag

I know you are a star
Hope you get real far
Cause where you need to be
Is exactly where you are
You know that you're a star
But don't take too long
One day you'll see
He'll never leave you in the dark

Little one
Hear my plea
You'll be okay
Just listen to me
Never change
You own me some grace
The world's a stage
So make 'em see
Just have some fun
A major kid
You feel some hate
But you're still free
You feel something
It may seem strange
But here's some games
That feeling free

We posed to be corpses or in a penitentiary by a quarter century
And don't no outside forces intervene
You sport the same skin as me that's symmetry
Instead of closing doors to limit me more empathy
We absorb energy so if you see me as your enemy
That's stemming from your inner me
We get milis and still got poor tendencies
Support industries that don't care bout the war in these streets and endorse em to eat
We feel forced to compete so we beef over a chorus and a beat
On a course of defeat
And of course it'll seat
Millions of asses in stadiums round the globe
This game pimped us now everybody yell hoe!
Chop off both of my feet before I ever sell soul
That's my word, and I stick to it like Velcro
Had a dream I met my younger self so
I knelt low
And I told him these words
You gon go through a lot of shit that wasn't part of the plan
Take all them losses as lessons go as far as you can

I know you are a star
Hope you get real far
Cause where you need to be
Is exactly where you are
You know that you're a star
But don't take too long
One day you'll see
He'll never leave you in the dark

I know you are a star
Hope you get real far
Cause where you need to be
Is exactly where you are
You know that you're a star
But don't take too long
One day you'll see
He'll never leave you in the dark