[Verse]
I was 14 poppin' perc 30s
I ain't have a single fucking accolade
I had to sober up and find a different way
This what happens when I acclimate
I had friends switch, family laughing at me
Hurt so many times, I wouldn't make it
When they doubting you and try to pin you down
That's when you know for sure you on the way to greatness
[?], been staying patient
Head down and my circle vacant
Built this all with my own hands from the ground up in a fucking basement
See what happens when you try to take it
They throwing shots and tryna land a flagrant
I keep on moving, keep elevating
Got no time to be fucking wasted
Promise that we ain't the same
Lion-hearted, and it runs in my veins
Just like a phoenix, I rise from the flames
Destroy it all just to build it again
I think I love it when they underestimate
Everything I do like I wouldn't elevate
Channel my pain to inspire and motivate
I turned an L to a lesson, ain't no mistakes, no
Only a lesson or blessin'
No stressin' or flexin', I don't need attention
I just wanna show 'em they have the potential
When they say you can't that you don't have to listen
There's always a way, and it starts in your mental
Speak it, believe it, achieve it, it's simple
When they try to stop you, you don't have to let 'em
I promise it's better to fail than regret it
But they gonna tell you it's different
They gonna shit on your dreams and live as a sheep
And wish that they life was important to be
Blaming they problems on everyone else
Making excuses, all reasons they fell
And I realized that they fuckin' themselves
If only you knew that nobody would help
Wait on a miracle, I'll wait on no one, I do it myself
Investing my time into learning a game, I let go of my ego to run up my wealth
Money ain't everything, knowledge is power
And they don't want that to be ours
Money ain't everything, knowledge is power
And they don't want that to be ours
I've been snapping off the rip
Only speak facts, this as real as it gets
But they don't respect it because I don't mumble or promote the drugs that I actually did
Y'all don't know half of my story
Only a tenth of my struggles
They don't wanna see me win
They keep on praying I fumble
But I never stumble, I keep moving forward no matter the trouble
The way that the world on my back, but I cannot collapse
'Cause I gotta be strong for the ones that I lost that I'll never get back
I know times getting tough, but I gotta be glad
'Cause I made it through hell, and I ain't going back
I know times getting tough, but I gotta be glad
'Cause I made it through hell, and I ain't going back
And I can't afford to lose focus
Stay going hard when the going's hard, and I won't quit 'til it's over
'Cause I can't afford to lose focus
Stay going hard when the going's hard, and I won't quit 'til it's over
'Til it's over