[ Featuring Lena Kipe ]
As I write down my life
My first pages aren't what I expected (I-I-I)
Gotta write my own pages, master my destiny
Study the wise, make my own destiny
They said I wouldn't amount to nothing
My melanin comes off as little untrusting
That's some jive and I ain't shucking
I lived on the block and I'm tired of ducking
I seen to many fall cause they couldn't act or ball
Some souls were never taught to stand tall they just stalled
No father or figure to call no values installed
Just backs against a wall everyday it's brawl
Wrist trying to break free of cuffs
It's tough we have to replace them with gloves
Cause we always being shoved
Boxing ourselves out of corners
Some are mourners
Some are prisoners of borders
This world is a disorder
What's a father without this daughter
What a mother without her son we barely worth a quarter
They aiming at a 4 year old for a dollar
The fear of another young scholar
Treated like a squalor
Young brother adjust your collar
Show em you ain't a monster
Your worth more than a spot on a roster
Young doctor young author show em you smarter
Get up off the bench we need more starters
As I write down my life
My first pages aren't what I expected (I-I-I)
Gotta write my own pages, master my destiny
Study the wise, make my own destiny
They keep holding me down I feel like I'm a drown
They got us shouting got us doubting
Some of y'all pouting and acting funny
Cause Hov said over here that ain't money
Taking 20 ig photos with the same stack & claim 20 stacks it don't work like that
You got to invest that stack
Then double that back
Put food on the table, before you get tax on that
That's facts on that
Idolizing paper more than respecting human nature
Putting your life in danger over wagers
Quick to follow a stranger cause there status is celeb
Won't see the danger until you walk through the web, use your head
We all human
Ain't no one immune to sleeping in that bed that's why sirens flash red
And we all covered with same thread
And exhale one last breath and all face the same threat, we all sweat
Blaming god for the world being so cruel
The devil got y'all fooled the world is his tool
Control & confuse
Program minds and abuse
It's quoted in the script
And y'all playing his role
As I write down my life
My first pages aren't what I expected (I-I-I)
Gotta write my own pages, master my destiny
Study the wise, make my own destiny
As I write down my life
My first pages aren't what I expected (I-I-I)
Gotta write my own pages, master my destiny
Study the wise, make my own destiny
