Losing sleep cause I'm working all spring the clock
Guess that's what happens when you focused gettin to the top
The Flow is elevated so I'm risin like the stock
Before cla** all my problems I down them with ciroc
Sharing pots when I was livin in abrego road
Do whatever it takes to get me in creative mode
At a party late night, white girls sniffin coke
Cops circle the block, but they never do patrol
I Saw em from Distance, rap I been persistent
See plays in advance im the coach and the a**istant
Trying to get a deal from the bars not a plea
To get to this point, then you gotta pay a fee
I mean, that overtime, that hard labor
Trying to do it better than good, I'm far greater
You rhyme later, I do now while they cool out
Never give into it tho instead choose a new route
Hate going to sleep just knowing that I'm being slept on
That's why I k** any instrumental that I get on
Reading stories from Malcom x and don Quixote
Expanding my mind tho at times I find it hard to focus
One time for the one time
Two times blowin your mind
Make dreams come to life
It ain't happen overnight
It's the Poet laureate, here's an image of what it's like
Surrounded by my own peers, when I pic up the mic
First to go to college, I'm adjusting to Campus life
Weed, pills, broken bottles, and the flashing lights
We pa**ing time, drinking forties, smoking Swishers
Plotting on ways that we can make this money quicker
Mind trippin am I livin? the poison in my veins
Take a shot, take a second, now let it k** the pain
Around here it's so different can forget where I came
Visualizing much greater, I know I can attain
Youngins pushing foreign cars, they livin Lavish
Staring out at the waves, like man we gotta have it
Remembering back when I thought it was Automatic
Recording my first rhyme so crazy thought I had it
Studying the game, giving it everything i have
Just a pen and a pad, writing bars, in back of cla**
Then we go outside, playing ball till the night came
Soon before my homie had a daughter and her life came
No more going out, you can find me in my room
Writing inside my notebook, im looking at the moon
It's the m a n to the d o
I'm just doing me not worried bout enemigos
He's dope yea we know, is what they really saying
Mac eleven with the bars how I'm really spraying
Never delaying the work ethic, they gonna try and hate it
Do it for my folks who never graduated yes they made it
Happen, and somehow I stuck to rappin
Shooting feature films with the bars I was never actin
And every scene they playing, I probably already seen it
Learn to rise above the hate and no get caught in between it
This is what they been feenin, My city what I'm reppin
On the come up trying to be first when they accept second
So restless, haven't slept in days listen as I lay a verse
Resurrecting the real ever since my date of birth