[Chorus: Abstract]

You thought I fell off (Okay)

They thought I went soft (No way)

They say what they can

'Cause I do what I want (All day)

Come back every time, they still act surprised

Bodies drop at the top, tell 'em I've arrived

Tell 'em, tell 'em (Tell 'em, tell 'em)

Tell 'em I've arrived

Seventeen, had a dream that kept me alive

Tell 'em, tell 'em (Tell 'em, tell 'em)

Tell 'em I've arrived

Seventeen, had a dream, now I'm livin' mine

[Verse 1: Abstract]

Came up off a dream and a laptop

Open doors for the team like a bellhop

Used to cruise South Park when my shift end

Spark spliffs while I shift through the west end

Now I show up and they all got questions

Back home and you know how the stress gets

Tell the kids from the town with a passion

I'm the proof you can move to the masses

Yeah, they gonna tell you who to be (Lies!)

Don't nobody wanna see you free (Why?)

Everybody sayin' who to be

Now they're tellin' everybody, so everybody repeats

Livin' in a bubble where trouble is self-made

Everyone a lil' sorry for playin' it too safe

So they wanna keep you livin' with them in the same cage

Gotta show 'em that we're tired of livin' the same way

Small town raised but I got it movin' 'cause I know I had to break that mold (Oh yeah)

Mindstate from a high place

Had to shift plates to be Grand as the peaks back home (Oh yeah)

Shift gears when I hit tears

On my tenth year payin' rent in the game, now I live here

All it took was the pain and the passion

What a way to come back from the ashes

[Chorus: Abstract]

You thought I fell off (Okay)

They thought I went soft (No way)

They say what they can

'Cause I do what I want (All day)

Come back every time, they still act surprised

Bodies drop at the top, tell 'em I've arrived

Tell 'em, tell 'em (Tell 'em, tell 'em)

Tell 'em I've arrived

Seventeen, had a dream that kept me alive

Tell 'em, tell 'em (Tell 'em, tell 'em)

Tell 'em I've arrived

Seventeen, had a dream, now I'm livin' mine

[Verse 2: Futuristic]

Yeah

Yo, I arrived (Yeah)

No, not to my surprise (No)

Knew I would blow since I was five (Yeah)

Now that boy shine like a firefly

Can't dim the light when I hold the flame (Yeah)

Coach rappers, now I know the game (Yeah)

Straightjacket 'cause the flow insane (Yeah)

Real life how I wrote the page

My story got started with catchin' bodies

Bend the industry, I spit Pilates

Paper stackin' underneath the mattress now

Can't fold it, no origami

Know who around me, only day ones

Fake, what I stay away from

Safe around me, better stay from 'round me

If you hatin' on me, you get tapped up (Look)

Get paid just to walk in the club

Pop me a bottle, don't talk to a scrub

If you show love, then it's reciprocated

My people done made it, we came from the mud

Remember the days I was makin' a dub

Now it's Kinko's the way that my paper is up

Been droppin' bars since the man was a boy

I was writin' my rhymes when I played in the tub

[Chorus: Abstract]

You thought I fell off (Okay)

They thought I went soft (No way)

They say what they can

'Cause I do what I want (All day)

Come back every time, they still act surprised

Bodies drop at the top, tell 'em I've arrived

Tell 'em, tell 'em (Tell 'em, tell 'em)

Tell 'em I've arrived

Seventeen, had a dream that kept me alive

Tell 'em, tell 'em (Tell 'em, tell 'em)

Tell 'em I've arrived

Seventeen, had a dream, now I'm livin' mine