Kero One - Whiplash lyrics

(Verse 1) Post alma mater, trying to get dollars, right out of college With a collar on starving like Ramadan for something solid I'm getting off work about 8 pm, grab a little bite and embrace a pen Make a couple beats, inside my den, wake up in the a.m., do it all again Friends, I had them but they too busy chasing them ladies Money gone, what a con, when drinks equals Mercedes I'd rather demolish a song I made in two nights with a new mic from not getting my baller on Smashing into the scene with my flow They blasting my beats in headphones Packing up seats in each row Cause pa**ion is unleashed each show (Wake up!) And that's when I snapped out of a dream in a corporate meeting (Wake up!) drooling, snoozing, heavy, breathing, forget it, I'm leaving Yo boss, I'm going to take off this evening to enjoy the weekend Maxing out CC's, crafting CD's until I'm eating Even if my tanks on "E" and the banks own me With that 20% APR my graveyard through laboring (Chorus) Whiplash, whiplash, energy out, it got to come back! (Verse 2) Sometimes I drop to my knees, praise God who set my soul free But I never got a spoon feed, hustling like its all on me With an appetite that's out of sight, like every night just grabbed the mic Burned demos, instrumentals, self a**embled in my bedroom Stacks of CD's, pa**ed 'em freely, play on TV, wasn't easy No Youtube, to allow you or school you with how to's none to teach me Feel me? asking every homie if they'd film me, but don't bill me My video budget was rubbish, publicists would milk me Emptied my pockets silly really nonetheless we needed press CD's were pressed, off my own debt, no regrets to k** me Keeping it professional, at all times, when I was small time From call times to interviews of all kinds even those that grilled me Fundamentally its that energy I put out that made enemies or friends to me Propelling me up with more feet then a centipede Sending me, towards finer things from flyering my own Shows, to inspiring those aspiring to go pro with flows bro... (Chorus) Whiplash, whiplash, energy out, it got to come back!