[Intro]

Yo, Rates, check

[Verse 1]

Thought of the goal and the reason why I still write these tracks

Cause I ain't one to quit, I guess I give my life to rap

How generic, I'm guessing you think, but let me explain

When I started, this rapping shit was expressing the pain

Only spit to my bro and I'd show the best to my mates

Hand me a pen and a page and tell me to mess up the game

I thought fuck it, I'm going hard, I'm not lazy, bro

Choked on my first freestyle on the radio

I went home and wrote a track and it was crazy, bro

I had them shivers when I wrote it hoping Jay's at home

So I could spit with Jay and Kers and show I had this crazy flow

Hoping we could make a track together then away we go

Up in the clouds, I needed money, thinking stupid shit

Boys so fucking red, I heard that other crews are moving in

Focus on the music shit drugs I was abusing them

Everybody worried, getting violent, think I'm losing it

Back to the rap and I went and dropped a track 'I Rap Because'

We were pumping jobs, I had to stop 'I Rap Because'

You'd think I'd drop a mixtape or something but nah, nah

I'd fuckin' fight but these cunts would think I'm half-assed

[Hook]

I rap because I let my hate go, no

I attack in my raps [?]

Am I ever gonna change, no, no

I rap because my tracks are catching in full

I rap because I let my hate go, no

I attack in my raps [?]

Am I ever gonna change, no, no

I rap because my tracks are catching in full

[Verse 2]

I started writing more, but I was lost

I was trapped seeing all these other rappers, man they're wacker

Know we better than them and I should clean my fucking act up

Maybe I could get a record deal cause I don't have one

Maybe I should walk away and sink in but I felt a buzz

Every time we rap, man that's a wrap, they never dealt with us

My mental health was declining, you can tell that I'm trying

I saw the stuff I was writing, come and help me to find it

Wrote a track I called it 'Nightmare' and I showed Scott

This was my life, this ain't a story and there's no plot

Wasn't gonna drop it, he told me I had to show James

And Boobs was tripping, he said to drop it cause it's flame

I got no shame I aired my life to the world

And then I got a good response and changed my life in this world

I went on tour with my bro, and everything was paid for

Man we spent some money, yo these other rappers ain't raw

Get up on the stage I can't explain what I was feeling then

Had the crowd chanting back, no one as real as them

[Hook]

I rap because I let my hate go, no

I attack in my raps [?]

Am I ever gonna change, no, no

I rap because my tracks are catching in full

I rap because I let my hate go, no

I attack in my raps [?]

Am I ever gonna change, no, no

I rap because my tracks are catching in full

[Verse 3]

I kept writing, never bored, this is all I know

All I know is to write a track and then record my flow

I feel the urge and this passion for rap performance slow

I'd give my life for this shit, it's more than audio

I did my debut album in only seven days

Topped the charts, forced Mac Miller into second place

Still I had to hear these wack rappers up on Triple J

Press it to the host, and wow we're glad that Kerser getting played

You're kidding me, and I ain't even get the fucking crew involved

Will this fucking label even tell me what my unit's sold?

Then I had some money come in, I bought a new car

Trippin' on the Xannies, crashed the fucker going too fast

I'm in a maze, I'm in a cloud, everything goes slow

I'm in a place, I look around, I smell the smoke choke

On the fumes and the dust of a hell that most won't

Comprehend until their time is coming so close

I feel this white light, this force man, it's no ghost

Is this epiphany, a dream man this is no joke

There's no one there, I need something to do I'm in a state

I lost contact with myself, how could I ring a mate?

Shit was real, that music's real and it still my fate

I had these waves of motivation, people feel my rage

So many tracks recorded but I was lacking performance

You hear that when I'm talking, all the raps I was scrawling

Were so wack I ignored them, all the drugs we used to fuck with

Were attacking our organs as if that was important

[Bridge]

As if that was important

As if that was important

As if that was important, what

[Hook]

I rap because I let my hate go, no

I attack in my raps [?]

Am I ever gonna change, no, no

I rap because my tracks are catching in full

I rap because I let my hate go, no

I attack in my raps [?]

Am I ever gonna change, no, no

I rap because my tracks are catching in full

[Outro]

I don't rap for applause, I rap to hack your thoughts

And I don't rap for sluts, I don't rap for packaged drugs

I only rap for the love, man, and that's a buzz

I don't rap for applause, I rap to hack your thoughts

I rap to hack your thoughts

And I don't rap for anything other than love and that's a buzz

I rap because...