Growing up, project struck, looking for luck, dreaming
Me and couplets, I was cupping up to the ceiling
Sseen it, jumped in and was looking up to believe it, lived it
Went and penned it and left the rest to the speakers
Wrote it the way I know it, you heard it, you saw me show it
Outlining the obvi' and intricating below it
Dollar signs in the lobby and finger painting the motive
Any side that's beside me is giving way to the notice
Dare you to look away from it, counting it is weighing it
And the weight of the winners will build 'em to build a gate for it
Protect it or neglect it, skully over the face with it
The outcome surrounds them and everything they praying with
Dents in the carpet, the honor amongst saving it
Picturing tomorrow is pro'lly gon' make today the end
Beat tapes blur out the blue and all the chase in them
Lights out the window, the awakening
I'm feeling like I made it though and if I made it yo
Then making it is everywhere that they ain't say to go
I'm making it where all of this is for the taking yo
'Cause making it is everything that they been waiting fo'
I show 'em how to make it through hysteria
Make it through hysteria, make it through hysteria
Made it through, show 'em how
Know the sound, know the score well enough to quote it now
Used to what they used to see them pointing the composer out
Suitor of the suitors, double breasted, money folded down
Rooted where the root is found an exit they can go around
Sped you up to slow you down, f** the curiosity
1,000 thread count but I was cut from where the bottom be
Powder spread 'round like they was dumping out their lottery
Freshened up the linen like embellishing an image
See it's sorta like the scene where Dukie get out the car
And Prezbo is watching a dream die from afar
And testers are getting thrown over on Popular Grove
And the rest of what you know is where the end of it starts
You hear the engine is gone, behind you is what it was
Hearing tends to be wrong but reminds you of what it does
Hearing it through the walls, oblige and get your run
And make sure to rewind it when you're done
I'm feeling like I made it though and if I made it yo
Then making it is everywhere that they ain't say to go
I'm making it where all of this is for the taking yo
'Cause making it is everything that they been waiting fo'
I show 'em how to make it through hysteria
Make it through hysteria, make it through hysteria
Made it through, show 'em how
Word to the hysteria that we tryin' to say we made it through
And word to bringing everyone wit us to say, "sh** I made it too"
Whatever happens from here on out
I made it when they said I wouldn't make it
I made it and I made it true
No hand outs used because none were ever given
I mean I can't say I wouldn't have accepted
If a hand was ever risen but none were so
Why consider when they didn't
They didn't consider my city or my block
Or my curb or my crib the way I did
And I didn't do any of this just to say I lived
I did it to say I'm in, in for whatever it might've been
Or it might be, or whatever's likely to push through
Not a hero just a good dude
Moms and pops love me like cooked food
And the front door was wide enough
For me to do more than just look through
So hey, why not at least take a stare?
Take it a step further and take it there
I mean really take it there
And see what all the fuss is being made about
And admire the ones before us who made it out
Getting autographs and picturing all of that
As a blueprint for us and wishing for all of that
Uh, see when I said I wrote on the back of light bills
I really meant that
And whether you did or didn't get that
It is what it is
I mean it is what it is for that dream
And that dream is so vivid it don't even look like one or so it seems
Seems to us that whatever you leave for us is what it'll be for us
But f** that because if that don't be enough
Then what does that mean for us?
Confliction and contemplation and addiction
And that itching and itching for what you missing
And you inching to see what they taking
Or see what they paying
Or see both sides and see why the song's been playing
The way it's been playing
And why it won't stop, couldn't stop it if you tried to
Or better yet if you pretended you wasn't listening
When really you knew every word in every sentence
And every metronome in that rhythm
Every hi hat and 808 you was given
The ba** you know as well as the mirror you in front of
And well, either do it or don't but either or they can't judge us
So yeah, I wrote and I wrote because no one else spoke
No judge, no jury, just purely how it goes
And from the go I was who I am
The story's been one in the same just the way
That you turn that page may have changed
Long time coming since Chris or Shawn
Or Nasir or Corey or Brad first started to go
Figured I'd do my part and draw up a path
And let it unfold, unfold like kites with picture requests
And homecoming dates and liquor requests
And sh**, I stand tall for all of it if this is what's left
Buying bottles last minute
'Cause see I'll never forget the date
But I might forget the request, see my life's loaded at the moment
And there's so many bottles to be bought that
I kinda get lost but still here and feeling like I made it though