Now these are the days

Through these hard times

All the memories I made

I be all on my own

But errything I do

Got me thinking bout home

Gotta go get it

Errytime I go in for me and my niggas

I'm going for gold

Gotta keep going

Let my story be told

Chapter one

Yellowish tone looking half the sun

Seeing lil trace of an African

Waiting for my turn like a Padawan

I was waiting for my turn like a batter up

Really didn't feel that I had enough

Even in school I was acting up

Nigga had luggage like I'm packing up

And that school committee

Had few if any

Persons who knew what grew within me

I grew to envy

A newer city

Niggas think slow while I'm moving swiftly

I knew the ending

Niggas stay here just to die here

Left with fewer pennies

A crueler ending

(Aye look)

Wanna change mine to movie Disney

Put in work working on my craft

Long nights pen on the pad

Thinking bout this life I have

Lost my way on the lonely path

And I buckled up and I fastened in

Life's just a game of balancing

When I moved my way to the A

They want no smoke

My flow stayed my matches lit

I believe I achieve

And I can see that's life is full of no guarantees

So everyday I take a leap of faith

Soon I see

That things are really all in my reach

Grab my dreams

Grab my dreams

Now these are the days

Through these hard times

All the memories I made

I be all on my own

But errything I do

Got me thinking bout home

Gotta go get it

Errytime I go in for me and my niggas

I'm going for gold

Gotta keep going

Let my story be told

Chapter two

Self made nigga with a attitude

Errbody on my attributes

Cuz I got more drive than avenues

Still mad at who

I laugh it through

Y'all shallow rooted

Y'all passion fruit

I'm passing through

Mad flashy too

All about that life in ya captions boo

I'm taking the names

For all the niggas

Who loved to put dust on my name

I'm now not the same

Nigga who really let all of ya niggas

Put doubt on my brain

More baggage than claims

Even Picasso was nothing

Until he realized he could paint

I dealt with the pain

Fueled me for training for tracks

And now I'm conducting the game

(Choo choo)

Golden now

'Member those nights I was holding out

Just a young nigga from the olden town

Now I bring reign like I'm Colin Powell

I do it for my moms getting older now

Down with my niggas that be rolling loud

Counting up the money

Watch it growing now

Never slowing down like an older crowd

I believe I achieve

And I can see that's life is full of no guarantees

So everyday I take a leap of faith

Soon I see

That things are really all in my reach

Grab my dreams

Grab my dreams

Now these are the days

Through these hard times

All the memories I made

I be all on my own

But errything I do

Got me thinking bout home

Gotta go get it

Errytime I go in for me and my niggas

I'm going for gold

Gotta keep going

Let my story be told