Von Graves - Passion in a Pen Lyrics

Here we go
Fearless
All I have is my passion and this pen
Master of what's within me
Careful of who I'm matching 'cause mostly fires are friendly
Traumatized from witnessin' homocides
Rappers I idolized are dying like all the time
I'm fried, man, ya'll don't manage your time trying to balance the hours
Of marketing to your fans & take exams at your colleges
Ya'll don't fill up ya'll pages
Ya'll don't play on your stations
Ya'll fly out the country just to fight off complacency
Ya'll put niggas on you only think of yourself
You don't see girls potential and try to offer some help
You don't read every night
Ya'll don't pray every morning
You just want to look cool, ya'll niggas don't really want it
Man, ya'll ain't trusting the process
Ya'll don't get up at 5 because you asked for more hours & that was your overtime
Not even 'cause of your bills just wanted studio time
Man, ya'll just rap for the money ya'll boys ain't changing no lives
Ya'll ain't killing them cyphers and not been criminalized
Ya'll ain't take them semesters
Ya'll don't fan ya'll professors
Ya'll just want to be fresh-man, ya'll ain't trying to be wealthy
All ya'll want is to party, man, ya'll ain't trying to be healthy
You ain't move every two years and only did what you told
An only child on the road, came home my parents was gone
You ain't see Pops change, you ain't see him alone...
Ya'll don't deal with that struggle, Ya'll don't deal with that struggle
You don't know what it's like to be asking for cars to borrow
Ya'll don't make people happy just trying to make people happy
Just trying to be faithful, knowing them groupies be looking at me
Man, ya'll won't turn down that pussy 'cause wisdom knows what would happen
Man, ya'll don't
I swear that ya'll don't, you never learn success ain't never came easy to none
You always hittin' that blunt, you always hitting and running
Your quick to pick up a gun but you won't do shit with that hundred dollars
You always hollerin' bout change really but what have you done?
You just a product of fame changing your lyrics to ours to reach the masses
Mastered a craft inside my bachelor pad watching your average ass climbing the charts
Manipulating your status, don't let 'em gas you, bladders 'bout to explode we pissed
Man, I can't wait til I hit
Man, I can't wait til I'm on, onions inside of my dish
I got a few of them rolled
I keep a few of them hoes
I give a few to my bros
Both ways a few of them go, no way I'll be with them though, I just be screwing them chicks
These cinderella's live fairytales, I know their dream very well
They pray for a prince, I throw a shoe on that bitch, subtract the roof on that Benz
Just one of few that I rent, I gotta buy me some clothes, that's too much money I spent
Too many hours I've wasted, clocking in at like 6 I should've been in the lab
God I wish I could quit, God I wish I could quit
God, I wish I could quit! The thought be making me sick
I'm sick of living like this
I got the skin of a king
I got the blood of a lion
They ain't living they dream
Man, most these rappers is lying, they ain't happy at all, they're in debt to their labors
You in debt to your college, ain't that something in common, what is happening mama?
Why you look so depressed? You so beautiful mama, don't you know that we're blessed?
I'll introduce you to Common, you and Pop's together 'cause I can't stand when ya'll separated
I'm dissing in spite of all that you bring us in drama
We gotta pay off some loans
Plus some bills for our home, plus the lease on the car, plus my college tuition
Plus your college tuition, plus the bill for the celly I know the sh*ts overwhelming
They want to treat us unfairly but it ain't shit they can tell me
I'm finna make us a hundred milli, man f*ck it a couple billie
'Cause changing the world is gonna take a lot and I'm ready
It's time to live for a cause, this time I'm coming for all
They want to follow a leader, assassinating the good ones just provoking more fear
They turn our kids into hoodlums
I barely be in the hood
I barely be in the burbs
Man I just be at the crib, I'm probably looking up words
Don't get it twisted no nerd, nigger, I got at your girl
You tried to buy her a car, I'm tryin to show her the world
Your problem is you don't grow her, she really want to learn more, you always go to store
She always sit on the sofa, while you chill with the homies
You don't realize it's over until she stop coming over
And now your life is on hold up, you ain't think she would leave
You had her weak in the knees
And now her weekends ain't free, she spending weekends with me, I'm in her deep as the sea
I'm in a league with just me, we in a league of our own, you'll overpay for a seat
I passed up shots for too long so now I'm scoring with ease
I'll never under perform, you'll never see a defeat
Man I'ma make you respect me, make you regret my rejection
They was dismissing my talent but that's just me being tested and now I'm feeling empowered
I'm finally seeing progression
Now every beat gets devoured and every verse is impressive, Man I am Me in the present
But I am King in the future
He said a kingdom would suit you
Try not to lose all the people cause if they're jealous they'll kill ya
They don't want to be equal, all I'm hearing is Y.O.L.O ya'll don't want to live sequels
Your whole life is a promo, your whole house is a tv
My whole life is a theatre