20 SUMMERS

[00:04.21] Yeah, I know when this come full circle
[00:06.38] They going front like they could always relate
[00:10.31] Like they always felt me
[00:11.65] Or ever got me in the first place but
[00:14.56] Alive and kicking like a toddler
[00:16.46] But I'm 20 something
[00:18.05] I spent 20 summers grinding
[00:19.89] Trying find my come up
[00:21.73] Spent a dozen of them lying
[00:23.52] Every year I'm coming
[00:25.43] Told my brothers we'll be flying
[00:27.28] But we sinking under
[00:28.53] This is more than pressure
[00:29.90] Fighting oppression, depression
[00:31.73] Gotta press another man
[00:33.34] Who sees you struggling and test ya
[00:35.49] Never play fair
[00:36.77] And they pray that you will never measure
[00:38.86] Up to your potential
[00:40.19] Up to the prophecies and projections
[00:42.53] I'll shine anywhere just give me a surface
[00:44.98] I'ma projector went this long
[00:46.96] With Smith & Wesson
[00:48.05] A pinch of devine protection
[00:49.63] Grandma praying she got seconds
[00:51.46] Maybe minutes years ain't destined
[00:53.04] I'm just trying reach my peak
[00:54.61] And let her see she manifested
[00:57.07] Got a gang of wolves depending on me
[00:58.87] They don't let me sweat it
[01:00.42] But I know I'm special
[01:01.58] I know I'm chosen and I can't let it
[01:03.65] Be in vein all the veins I done filled
[01:06.52] All the caine I done dealt
[01:08.44] All the lean I done spilled
[01:10.01] All the green I exchange for more green
[01:12.68] Ain't that ill I can be just another statistic
[01:16.10] I don't make it here fronting like I got the answers
[01:18.99] All my failures led me here
[01:20.90] I can't front I got some wins
[01:22.63] But that don't mean shit if we still
[01:24.23] In the first place that we appeared
[01:26.18] Alive and kicking like a toddler
[01:27.95] But I'm 20 something
[01:30.05] I spent 20 summers grinding
[01:31.61] Trying find my come up
[01:33.80] Spent a dozen of them lying
[01:35.03] Every year I'm coming
[01:36.99] Told my brothers we'll be flying
[01:38.45] But we sinking under
[01:40.02] Imagine being Micheal but your Scottie
[01:42.22] Think he, Michael
[01:43.83] Imagine being Kobe but your Kwame
[01:45.99] Think he Bynum
[01:46.77] Cut they nose to spite they face
[01:48.36] Don't wanna be it just look like it
[01:50.24] Your antics holding us all back
[01:52.01] Just play from your spot and ride it
[01:54.45] Out to the end but instead
[01:56.51] You might get pushed off the bench
[01:58.39] Every clique got them a Judas
[02:00.27] Don't mean I'm accepting
[02:01.88] Any of that behavior out of my men
[02:04.44] You going pay one way or otherwise
[02:06.88] It's possible you'll die where you stand
[02:08.93] Been through some wars I fought alone
[02:11.35] That you wouldn't last in I took a lost
[02:13.76] Standing by y'all you would've lost all your friends
[02:16.32] Memory long could recall way back when
[02:18.75] That you almost did
[02:20.05] Due to fronting, ego and words
[02:22.13] Out the side of your neck
[02:23.78] I really press buttons you smelled your shit
[02:25.55] And made empty threats
[02:27.19] I may have came up short
[02:28.23] But never made empty promises
[02:30.64] Gave you chance after chance
[02:31.98] But long behold it is what it is
[02:34.36] If you wanna be me then be me
[02:36.13] But don't front like you this
[02:37.74] Alive and kicking like a toddler
[02:39.59] But I'm 20 something
[02:41.46] I spent 20 summers grinding
[02:43.06] Trying find my come up
[02:45.18] Spent a dozen of them lying
[02:46.72] Every year I'm coming
[02:48.82] Told my brothers we'll be flying
[02:50.41] But we sinking under
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