My whole life changed up
For two whole years I thought God was tryna play us
Really he was sending signs telling me to wake up
You ain't around the right people
You ain't doing the right things
How you think Ima let you win and you ain't made a change
But let's rewind the story I'll tell you how just how it started
My flow was getting crazy I'm ready to be the topic, of the rap game I had XXL dreams
The freshest of the freshman way sharper than any marksmen
Built my own team, JoeLyric he standing tall
Strategizing 24/7 so I won't fall
Fell over myself too many times
Stumbled, too many lines
Tryna be a force in this rap game
Tried to juggle it all did it everything by myself
Ain't have the funds for shit so I was locked inside a drought
Hit the streets and almost start getting it
But didn't go thru
My conscience wouldn't let me live wit it
So back to square one
I'm f*cking broke
My whole team
Yea they broke
Some of em just ain't have the drive and Apex ain't for jokes
Slipping in depression then Yonna died
Awww lawd now I can feel the tears falling down my eyes
Locked in wit passive depression ain't know how to grieve
When your life is falling in darkness you find it hard to see
I thought I hit rock bottom but I barely scratched the surface
2017 gave me impression I was worthless
Working a 9-5 to maintain and survive
But didn't feel a need cause inside I have died
My pipe dream getting thinner
The question of will I be another failed rapper
No legacy to remember
Statistic was haunting me waking me out of my sleep
Around the time abel hit me bout a move so we linked
Down south like a coke connect
The plan seemed obvi
If killing these beats ain't work I just might've caught a body
Can't Stop Gotta It
Mixtape was unfinished
Contemplated life or death
Who would suffer my remembrance
Demons talked to me all the time on a daily
Voices in back of my cerebellum drove me crazy
All my plans still failing
Somehow I'm still trying
Finished the tape regardless of who streaming or who buying
Marketing backfired
Plans they backfired
Couldn't call on no one
Disconnected my landline
Reflections of Tupac
Just me against the world
But I'm thankful for the struggle
Hard times made me thorough
When I said I ain't giving up
Things start looking up
In the stu already
Ideas was cooking up
I thought JoeLyric was dying he was only evolving
Now the posing question when I get my wings I'm done falling
Like an avalanche now I'm rising up just like a stock
Around the time I spent my days and my nights round Congress Park, I had plans
Added Sid to the team lil brother got locked up
But out the next day no controversy can stop us
Bullets came from cross the street when I was in dead center
Barely missed my head I feel blessed to be still living
Divine intervention talked to me that was the wake up
Everybody meant for something whether it was books or lay up
Way under my greatness I was living life basic
That's just how the city is it's hard to fight the germs contagious
My life was in containment, life sentence from the city nobody wanna hear my plea Before judging at my arraignment
Switching up my cadence Beat killer to an A-List
Evolved to just An Alias gave me hope I would make it
That's really my name my character
My lane
Was easy to see like tallest mountain same place that I changed
Took a leap of faith just praying the wind a catch me
Pouring out my truth hoping all you people accept me
If I fall wit all my flaws I'm hoping you resurrect me
Talking to my Grama she praying the Lord bless me
Seen crazy things and it left me traumatized
Did crazy things still a saint in mamas eyes
I hated me at the bottom I'm loving me as I rise
Devil at my door but I'll never let em inside
I'll take the second chance and I'll head back to the sky
And take the leap of faith forever cause it's Fall or Fly