Letter to My Inspirations

Imma flip this world upside down, when I get a chance The big advance It'll be in my hands Bathing with the money and the honeys It's all apart of my plan I hope you understand That I came up with nothing, so this dream is all I am All I ever will be So I hope you see The urgency That resides within me, In Durham, only friend was Samouri Oddly specific I'm sure But To understand who I am You've got to know my influences They turned me to a man Not at the time I couldn't change on a dime Nah, this shit took ages Went through several pages, of my life Before this seed sprouted My knowledge being outed Like a sleeper agent I've been awakened But let me take you back To Lyons Park, memories a little fuzzy, little dark But I'll still guide through like Chiron, cause I know my mark I was prolly like 9 at the time Samori's 8 Everything's pretty great Now keep in mind I haven't seen him in a while Cause he ain't been in after-school But it's all cool Cause when we link and we think We come up with something This little freestyle about Fancy Pants You know, the browser game And we recited this thing all through the aisles All down Lyons Park So proud of ourselves And what we could make And I think that's what really started my rapping career Had some good times in Durham But I gotta move on, to the stage in my life, we moved to different lawns More like different states I'd never felt my heartbreak, so hard, just being super far Not like I knew very much But it still got stuck In my emotions Moving through the motions Colorado, that's where I met Kendrick, he had a cool bravado And he was the next rapper toggle He was an older kid I wanted to impress, cause he was a good dancer, and was well dressed He could spit some flames With the likes of the big names He could've gotten fame But he didn't want it He taught me a couple words And how to put them together Like a tether, you could never sever That's what let me make it through the weather He was all for a rap group, and I wanted to prove that I was better Not than him Just better than other people So I wrote this verse And it was nothing good It was like 2 bars It was like some battle rap shit Like "You ain't got no dollar, well I got 5 dollars" And that was supposed the fucking mic drop moment It was garbage Like pure garbage Like anything of mine is different now But at the time it was garbage that I loved Cause it was my garbage And that was important It's time to flash into the present Lemme rant a second Cause I know I'm nothing special, I just think it's fucking crazy That I know the people that I do Like, even if I hate y'all You just won't leave my heart, especially those in the crew, I've loved y'all from the start This goes out to Vex, Filth, $tarr, and more Without y'all my life would be chore I'll take that to my grave and back For y'all I'll walk 100 miles of glass, barefoot, and that's fact Excuse me if I go off beat This hit is just so goddamn important to me Y'all made me who I am today Through thick and thin, y'all had my back and showed me the way If I ever get the chance to repay you You know I'd do it Cause when I floated too far to the clouds, Y'all held me down When I fell back to the ground, You fixed my broken frown There's too many stories to recount But if I had to pick one It's the one we're gonna make When we all make it Laughing and having a good time together That's what gets me through my life It's a dream that lasts forever I love y'all