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to do with defeats
I turn all of those to motivational musical speech
Oh, and by the way, guess what I'm doin' to eat?
Yup, rappin', who cares about

I'd rather fail than live by your tasks
Cause when I'm on my own I get farther than where they put me at
You're just angry cause these are the facts,

Really I'm 16 for 16 on this album no debate
Made my debut the best album I could make
I got set back for 2 years I wasn't planning on no wait
So

like my name Kareem
Los was making beats, tryna get em each perfected
D would listen to my bars, giving me suggestions
Baby girl was by my side, fell

of a raw deal

I can relate, ‘cause I'm another one and the same
clways figured one day I'd Roc-c-Fella my name
But I never been the type to get jealous

don't need to sit around and listen to the same stories
I don't need your industry boys to open doors for me
Just play a beat and hit record for me
I'm

rules to stay alive, better watch
W to the people, underdog
True story, but some backs got crossed, so I had to

Had to vroom right past it like a road

another Album, yeah she put it on her seasoning
The legs I put on my new stories I bet you never seen them
I bet you focused on new bitches and left out all

still will ascent
A beast that will never be tamed
Enslaved by the thoughts in my brain
I must entertain
I must write a passage of pain
To prove

till four o'clock in the mornin'
I've been through so much shit, I got a helluva story

You say I'm cookin' now, but I've had the recipe
I've been doin'

of college, thought fuck, what's the plan then
A car pulled up right there where I'm standing
It's my guy D, I know from secondary
Passenger seat, selling tree

Well, we're here
This is it, this is the third album
This is East of Eden, welcome to the show ladies and gentlemen
It's really been a wild ride

is this a movie?
Nuh this is a story that's narrated by the liquor
As seen through the eyes of the man in the mirror
Motivated on the out inside it's

rising, 'til I'm upside down, I won't look down

This a meteoric rise, keep ignoring all the horror stories like
So-and-so got way too famous and ended

I'd never get by
Maybe if I change the pace, maybe if I change my face
Maybe if I ditch the label I'd be winning this race

I was going nowhere, but I

patient

'Cause by the time they find a lead release, your shit is ancient

You think they're working your album? You're mistaken

And if you flop, you get

vibe
Ambition
I’m just tryna live
And do more than survive
I’d be lying if I told you I don't think bout what’s finna happen next
Like
Who woulda thought

outchea
Feedin' you with this rap album, but what that amount to?
I'd rather lounge with them
Playing records out a sound system, Morty on the couch

Evil Mind..
& I trust that Music is the way for me.. like an outlet...
& So; if you wondered why my album werent out yet
Here yarhh BEEATCHH!! This is

some homies been catchin' charges
Back to the story
I'm washin' dishes
I put em all up
Came round the corner
Went by the sink and thats when i saw ya

each other brothers
Because we are all brothers by god
We must all stand up for each other and are own freedom
Us brothers all have a special place in

rapper story, no fam in a prison
But I'm institutionalised by the skin that I live in
It's either that or the fact they try condition me
I'm hindered by

If you want me come and find me I'm in Death Valley
Lots of old people more seniors than a pep rally
What
Lines be piling up you'd think I kept

Fifth track on that black and white album
Kinda' name you know never sick of the sound of
Any song, any year, you'd hear

So I went to the rock show