The Man was one of, if not thee first record we did for the album. It felt big, it felt like a moment, it felt like I needed to stake my claim
“A part of the game, is strictly for the get back
I'd be silly if I would go and forget that”
Music I great, I love music, It keeps me alive. What also keeps me alive is pride. The lyric above is the brutal truth that after a certain point, you do things just cause people keep telling you that you won't. I got a long way to go and like to think I have a good heart but listen, I won't lie and say I don't want my ‘I told you so' moments with the world. I do, I really do. That's why after those verses it goes into the hook:
“All I ever heard was I won't(“You Won't”), now I am
They still telling me that I can't, they don't know that I'm the man”
I had to yell that sh** too. I yelled it because I meant it. I learned young that, someones not always going to be there to gas you. At some point you got to look yourself in the mirror and implement the compliment in yourself. Nobody is as dope as you and you should believe it, a co-sign isn't needed, YOU'RE DOPE
“Never been the type to test the waters it ain't no dippin
I disrobe then dive then deal with the consequences”
That's how I am, going full force. If I'm wrong then I'll find out later but there's no sense in half a**ing. I'm the Man
Phorreal Interlude
Man, this was fun. If you heard this record I mess with you because that means you waited til the end of The Man and didn't skim through my sh**. These records are easy for me. I heard the beat and started fooling around and I'm a big R&B and melody head. I thought and entire song would be too much so I just through a verse on there and did the hook. I named if ‘Phorreal' because it's a play of Pharrell. I feel like he would have did this record in 2004, so I channeled him here, HA
Also, I was spittin bars here too:
“Your body could make a gang call a truce
You got the purple mix red with the blue
Culo on LEAN”
Red and Blue = gangs of course but also mixing red and blue makes purple. Lean is puple…. Ah forget it
This is probably the first record(kind of) for the ladies I put out, and I was hesitant because of my fake singing, but the reaction has been amazing so, look out for more