New Year (feat. Johnny Franchino) Video (MV)

Let me take it back, to the days of the braids & the wave caps
Eating Captain Crunch, watching PBS on the TV
Going down the street just to kick it with all the homies
Never keeping track of time so the streetlights had did that for me
I was a young mind with an old soul
Ambitious & witty - always ready to hit the road
Trynna' make something outta nothing 'cause nothing was ever given man
So you know I had to go & get it then
Trying to multiply my dividends & subtract the distractions
Ain't have no time for fake kickin' it, 'cause I'm checkin' bags & I know that they mad
Because they think I came up over night
But I been pursuing this my whole life
Now that I'm finally making a name you wanna be friends again
But I'm rocking with people who been here from the beginning
So raise a glass too the past because we made it out living in the present
With our pockets holding big amounts 'cause we just wanna ball

New times, new life, and new chances
Gotta make it out of the bottom just how we planned 'cause it's a New year (New Year!)
Ain't no time for romancing the past
So I want everyone to raise a glass (Cheers!)
New times, new life, and new chances
Ain't no time for staying complacent 'cause it's a New year (New Year!)
Don't let the doubt cloud your judgement
If you want it then you gotta work for it & obtain it in a New Year

May your life be, old friends & new wine
Clear nights & sun shine, new year's a new time
Bold truth where none lie, new yachts for boat rides
New cruises, new whips, new dreams for wise eyes, look here
Life's a short ride
So we live on while some quit, that's the truth - right...
Traveling mercies, Murcielago's in Turkey
Twirling pasta, Campagna, Salerno for anniversary
My fellow pilgrims, my fellow travelers
New chapter's are now enacted 'cause we prepared for the here & after
Turn pain to champagne, we raising glasses
So if I die tonight then chin-chin - I'm raising after
Raising in the Son, may your movements never falter
May your old debts never cost you
May your old foes never taunt you, may your old bones never haunt you
May Yahweh's hand remain on you - cheers!

Curtains close as the bottle pours, let's toast up
We counting down all them long nights and cold cuts
Straight fire, the beats & bars be hulked up
It's BC so all wins get chalked up
Stayed flaming since Johnny Storm and Top Rank was it
And now we built up an empire, we out making it
Through all the blood, sweat & sacrifice we crafted life
These false kings and plastic thrones ain't half as nice
It's all brick over here, steel and rabid wolves
We added onto the pack - Ha! I wish you would
Step up to the self-made, gladiate
Success is sweet when it's life - lemons to lemonade
So squad up and lets chin-chin for new fam
And chin music, chin-chin for new clouds, we're space bound
Reflecting moments that transpired - we leveled up
It's Beat Council, we're on fire

New times, new life, and new chances
Gotta make it out of the bottom just how we planned 'cause it's a New year (New Year!)
Ain't no time for romancing the past
So I want everyone to raise a glass (Cheers!)
New times, new life, and new chances
Ain't no time for staying complacent 'cause it's a New year (New Year!)
Don't let the doubt cloud your judgement
If you want it then you gotta work for it & obtain it in a New Year

Turned a dream into a business, we stay busy with the business
Got rappers on my hit list, nothing personal just business
Busy body, I don't ever sleep, 7 songs every week
Wavy like the seven seas, was rapping back at seventeen
Since I've grown, I'm a formidable foe
I smell victory right under my nose so I suppose
That we don't stop 'til we hit every coast
And they can't try to Budden cuz we aint average Joes - Oh man...
They don't get me but they never have, I'll be known on every ave
Gotta keep it real, I told my squad to take off every mask
Only real around me, I demand it - I don't ever ask
And I play action fake friends I just let em pass...
So here we are, it's the top of the year
I told them that I got my armor on, there's nothing to fear
I need some armor all, I'm wiping it clear
A clean slate for my drive, destination is near, your devastation is here

New times, new life, and new chances
Gotta make it out of the bottom just how we planned 'cause it's a New year (New Year!)
Ain't no time for romancing the past
So I want everyone to raise a glass (Cheers!)
New times, new life, and new chances
Ain't no time for staying complacent 'cause it's a New year (New Year!)
Don't let the doubt cloud your judgement
If you want it then you gotta work for it & obtain it in a New Year