Apollo Brown - Still Standin' lyrics

(Sample) We used to play out in the rain.... (Intro: Rasheed Chappel) Yeah, it's my life It's my story, I put it to song They want the bright lights, but these are dark shadows (Verse 1: Rasheed Chappel) It started in Dane's basement, spittin' my little rhymes And n***as laughed at me, and n***as clowned on me In due time, they gon' put the crown on me Give you the early years, call it my right to pa**age It defined my purpose, refined my pa**ion My life's work, written in every word Every sentence bears resemblance, to every curb That I stood and watched, and engaged in cyphers Then was off to work, my baby needed diapers Was seventeen, carried the world's weight I got a second coming, another court date And my mother's sitting, behind a prison wall My pop's high, and he no help at all I was the breadwinner, I had to make a way And them n***as that laughed, I'ma make them pay And now the world 'gon hear, what I have to say (Hook: Rasheed Chappel) {x4} I'm still standin' here (Still standin', still standin') By myself (Verse 2: Rasheed Chappel) And all I wanted was love and recognition My picture in Record City and n***as saying we did it Nigas saying we made it, my n***a congratulations But f** it, I never got it, my home never forgotten Live, write and record it, on stage vivid performance Crowds, cheering applauding, on cell phones recording I took the pain and put it inside the music The music was therapeutic, I'm just airing my heart I took the burden, I went the furthest, I bear the scar But scrutinized and crucified to give you art I just think it and ink it and as I jot it down I get to thinking, it sinks in, I made it out Instead of broke, it was moulded, I became a king Instead of folding was chosen, I bear the wings To take flight and spread life, my name rings Was given nothing but I give you my everything (Hook) (Outro: Rasheed Chappel) Apollo Brown, Rasheed Chappel Still standin' Forever