MMIX - Intellectual

[Intro]

Whoa, whoa, whoa

It's 'bout time to let it go

OK, let's rewind way back to 2009

People telling me I'll miss high school and I'm like "Nah" (Nope)

I ain't go to prom or Wildwood to wild out

Hope you had the time of your life, it's not mine

Good riddance sentiment, whatever, I'm fine

I'm just tryna finish here and get on my grind

Yearbook signatures, let my cap fly

Then proceeded to recede into the deep end of my mind

It's probably on me that no one really hit my line

Or all you dweebs who saw my likes and speech as being White (Trash)

I mean the token Black kid is so easily defined

I'll just take it as naivety and leave it all behind

Identity was seized of any ego, any pride (Right)

But senior year I realized you needed some to thrive (Right)

The asterisk was crafted through these beats and through these rhymes

To cease how I'm perceived as meek and feed it to the fire, bow! (Whoa, whoa, whoa)

Me, myself and I, like back in 2009, yeah

Ask me why I'm like this, here's a little reminder

Me, myself and I, like back in 2009, yeah

Ask me why I'm like this, here's a little reminder

Summer wasn't too lit- I stayed reclusive

Head full of excerpts, hands working rudiments

And bedroom producing, never was a cool kid

But learned to rock the mic chucking English over my music

I went M.I.A just learning how to do it

Fleet of paper planes for every verse I wasn't using

Tape About Nothing in the Saturn steady bumping

As I tried to make something from my exported loops and clips

Somewhere in the between of thinking this is stupid

And hyping up fall as a chance to start new again

"I live my life alone" helped my mood shift

Though I was sick of home, I got used to it

"If everything I do is wrong, then by God I'll do it right"

Was my slogan in the hopes that I'd improve at this

I made these references to show you what this music meant

Guess you could say it's a decade under their influence

Me, myself and I, like back in 2009, yeah

Ask me why I'm like this, here's a little reminder

Me, myself and I, like back in 2009, yeah

Ask me why I'm like this, here's a little reminder

Jerz!