Anthony Talbert Jr. - Further lyrics

(Verse 1) Uh Used to read a lot Then I turned to rap a lot Then my parents bought a house Decent size, average lot Moved again Made some friends Wrote some rhymes Got it in Forgot about the books Grades didn't matter I wrote rhymes every day I didn't care about the grammEr Didn't care about the fractions Numbers I would have them Wrote rhymes all through cla**es Making music for the ma**es Believed in myself like Christians believe God Found it hard to believe those who claimed that belief was hard Friends turned into a team Got a job Made some cream Bought a microphone 15 Started living a dream This point in life was ecstasy Beautiful woman next to me Seemed like God was blessing me Thought I was the next to be The greatest The papers, the teachers, the homework didn't matter It was study or write all night I always chose the latter I always slept through cla** I always barely pa**ed Then my girlfriend got with my best friend Ecstasy crashed That's when depression hit I'm like forget this sh** Mark my words I'm a be the best, forget that you exist She's said she really doubts it I'm like I'm really 'bout it Told Marco, you ain't the crew my n***a Get up out it This starts another chapter After I abandoned the reading Applied more pressure to my pen as if she left it bleeding And grades kept declining I just kept on rhyming My parents kept dividing I just kept on rhyming And then Calvin died and I just kept on rhyming Now I'm in college What the professor expects is rhyming That's kind of funny ain't it? And if my views are tainted Remember I'm in school But music comes first And I still haven't made it Feels like I shouldn't be writing a rhyme just to have it graded This is truly art Something from the heart I love Hip-Hop But that love of reading fell apart And I just walk away “Then the winter came. I got a second part time job, home was just a place to sleep. I felt like I could work since I had a goal. I only had one concern. God, does he exist?"