[Verse]

Never listen to adults

I turned up the volume on my speakers

All I spend money on is alcohol and sneakers

Hella Mary Jane, got bundles of reefer

I slept through class, never listened to my teachers

'Cause I ain't really feel what they was teachin'

I always had dreams but they said I'd never reach 'em

Skipped to the back, I ain't turn one page

Trying to tell you how to live at a young age

If you don't go to school you'll make a dumb wage

It's a fucked up system, but it's never going to change

I channel through my bars all the struggle, and the pain

'Cause I know my destiny is not to die with no name

So what you got a doctorate, I built my own fame

You in denial on the side like some chicken lo-mein

I'm kicking propane when I enter the lab

And Ninja Turtle swag, no Splinter of that

I've spent on my dreams what you've spent on a fag

'Cause it's ill shit when I puts pen to the pad

Chill, son, they already know this

But it took them four years just to notice

Yeah, regardless I'm focused

I just wanna say some ill shit

So when I die, they'll quote this

And maybe then I'll get the props I deserve

I know what I'm looking for, it's right around the curb

But can't seem to grab it, I'm searching for the nerve

Where the road to my riches and my dreams come to merge

Where my lifestyle matches my words

And trips to the sneaker shop is always a splurge

I'm getting there young, I'm getting to a verge

Of a breakthrough year where success will emerge

I made it here on my own, what can you say?

My everyday life is Mardi Gras tuesday

Dre phones on, listening to Lupe

I'm knowing I should say more, but I feel it's too late

Record labels want bubblegum hits

A groupie fanbase filled with bubblegum chicks

But when you're upstream, up the struggle comes quick

You're in a sea full of misery and trouble runs thick

I'm not the one everyone thinks, I am Brady in the six

Not the number one pick

I'm no music industry experiment

This is my career, I'm in the driver's seat steering it

And there's some pressure on my shoulder's and I'm feeling it

But some worth a sweat one five and I'm peeling it

The war's won, deal's done, now I'm sealing it

The infrastructure's blue printed, now I'm out building it

From the ground up, I still got a ways a go

I fucked the game raw, yo, plus fellatio

Then I flipped her, something like a cartwheel

I'm authentic, can't make it if you aren't real

I want to be remembered so I grind like a bar rail

'Cause my songs will beat longer than my heart will