Light Up - Intellectual

[Intro: Jamie Drastik & David Rush]

Uh-huh, yeah (light up)

Jamie Drastik, David Rush (light Up)

Oh, it's gonna move

[Verse 1: Jamie Drastik]

They tell me to not mention my wife or my kid in my interviews

It's image-driven and they wanna give a different view

I tell them go to hell, go and meet Satan

Something like that, I may be paraphrasing

They don't understand how much I am a soldier

Recording in the booth with my son up on my shoulder

Telling him to stay away from this money's older

Yeah, the war is cold, but the music biz is colder

I'm just trying to give them better hope

Fuck a chain, I'd rather see thеm with a stethoscope

The corniеst shit I did was start selling coke

Especially to my friends, what a fucking joke

I got glass on my knuckles for the bloodsport

You take a shortcut, you getting cut short

I'm in the baddest box, full count three and two

But I'ma hit it out the park, unretrieveable

An opportunity comes once in a lifetime

I'm not a pussy so I don't rely on nine lives

I'ma claw to the top when I fly by

But the odds stacked against me, why lie?

They say that life's a ride, but I can't enjoy it

Mental rollercoaster, who got the stomach ford?

You should pay attention, how could you not afford it?

Life is my ghost writer, how could I not record it?

Success is up the road, I think I'm near it

I used my freedom of speech and charge people to hear it

This a sample of my talent, no charge to clear it

I'm on my own ride, no one's hear to steer it

Until they put me in the sky, respect me from the ground up

Regulator on a hater and tell my team to mount up

Let 'em talk crazy, I could care less

Cause you ain't run this shit, you a fake catch

[Chorus: Drake]

Who would've thought I'd be caught in this life?

Let's celebrate with a toast and get lost in tonight

And make it all light up

Wait until the sun goes down

We gon' make this bitch light up

Even when the sun goes down I'ma make it go

[Verse 2: David Rush]

Mama told me always, follow my dreams

I was too young to really know what that means

She told me when I be great not to walk by sight

Just to walk by faith, I learned my place

As I screamed into a microphone

Sweatin' in the booth feeling like I'm all alone

They always tell me I'ma make it soon

But there's so much I could do for my bedroom

Man, I might be dead soon, running out of time

Naming any rapper, we can go line from line

Rip his heart out in cold blood, valentine

Shout out back gorge jumping out the foul line

Success is so sweet from my little taste

So I guess it's on me to find my place

When I was stopping, everybody was on my shit

They want a rep back that be on my clique

Wanna record with me, be on my hits

And the hottest things in Jers came out my lips

Pause, what you know how this game is

Woman, you hot and next thing, you nameless

Putting my head down, never shameless

Real nigga, cause, I know what that pain is

Know what that change is, so I search it up

I lean back for a minute, double cup

Did tours, got money and doubled up

But sometimes, really feel like giving up

Yeah, but you know I ain't stopping

Although I'm living life about it, worth of Johnnie Cochran

My GPA good, so failing never an option

The haters that made me feel good, go ahead and knock 'em

Hit me with your best shot, you could never drop 'em