[ Featuring Young Ea$e ]
Ay
Yeah, we all pain-driven
New prescription, had to change lenses
Yeah we might've been raised different But we still focused on the same vision
Still the same me changed image
Can't portray all the lame gimmicks
Can't astray all the lame shit that you did thinking you would see a pay difference
I ain't with it
I'm the rose that grew from the concrete
Made it through the storm, kept my cool like a calm breeze
Always prayed for the view with some palm trees
But look outside and see a city full of lost dreams
Life like a ocean I'm stuck in I'm just tryna find my way out of the deep
But the money is something like Moses cause you know the profit be parting the sea
Pardon me please, it's hard to believe
I've been working so long at the heart of this dream
I had some people do me just like Julius Caesar, they no longer part of the team
They only hate cause they're in with TE
And they too busy focused on envy and greed
Your life a family vacation to Destin, I'm stuck tryna see what I'm destined to be
Me versus me is like Creed versus Rocky
Beat after beat is like body for body
Throw me a track on the table I'll cook the shit up in your face like you eating hibachi
Sleeping on me, you must think that I'm Cosby
Selling your soul for Louis and Versace
Say that you post with a drake like you drizzy But really came up like Jimmy from Degrassi
The shit get better, it don't really matter
If you're feeling stuck right now
You been thru the weather keep stackin' your cheddar Just grind through the ups and downs
Grind through the ups and downs
Grind through the ups and downs
Even in a dark place sittin' on a grey cloud
Bitch I'm up right now
Grind through the ups and downs
Grind through the ups and downs
Grind through the ups and downs
Grind through the ups and downs
Grind through the ups and downs
Grind through the ups and downs
Even in a dark place sittin' on a grey cloud
Bitch I'm up right now
Still trying to heal and the pain is the proof
Been in the field in hydrating my roots
Put me back on my ass so it ain't shit to lose
I'm in traffic, the trap or I'm caged in the booth
Stackin' up cash to vacate on the moon
Overlapping they ass then I wave chuck the deuce
As a matter of fact let me skate and get loose
While attacking this track with a chain and a noose
Bitch I'm back in the lab I escape with the flu
Make a break they refute cause the strain was too new
Start to aim take a view they afraid and confused
Cause I'm stuck in this bitch like they painted a mural
A nigga can't switch gears, now I got 'em in awe
Spitting out flames In Neutral
Idle wide big boy, call me by my nickname
Baby that's A.K.A. Rooster
You see it is never forgettable
When people mistake all your kindness for weakness, I tell 'em to elevate principle
You know that this level is difficult
I help them a little for heaven's sake
Where the hell am I sending them
The Astro, the spiritual, meta, the physical
Change your credentials to better position
Now all y'all can prepare to witness 'em
The fact the flow was written and God given
I said 'case you didn't know
A failure to stop is two to the chest
His head get a different hole
I said cause you didn't know
Said failure to stop was two to the chest
His head get a different hole
That's just how I'm livin hoe
The shit get better, it don't really matter
If you're feeling stuck right now
You been thru the weather keep stackin' your cheddar Just grind through the ups and downs
Grind through the ups and downs
Grind through the ups and downs
Even in a dark place sittin' on a grey cloud
Bitch I'm up right now
Grind through the ups and downs
Grind through the ups and downs
Grind through the ups and downs
Grind through the ups and downs
Grind through the ups and downs
Grind through the ups and downs
Even in a dark place sittin' on a grey cloud
Bitch I'm up right now
