[Intro]

Dear future me, I wanna be an NBA player

Dear future me, I wanna be the President

Dear future me, I wanna be a doctor

Dear future me, I'm gonna be a rapper

[Verse]

Dear future me, I fear future me

Cuz all my life, I been workin' nonstop

Nonstop, to the top

Long way to go

Been waitin' on this drop, 'till the haters finally stop

Can you get it through your head?

I don't care what you think (don't care what you think)

Think things all you want, try to make 'em true

Life change in a blink (life change in a blink)

I hope you make it far, where you wanna go?

Front row at my show? No?

Don't try to act a fool one day, then try and be my bro, yeah

All my life, crashin' , when will it happen?

Me making it one day, I hear you all laughin'

But when I win a Grammy, when I win plaques

My long lost friends, they finna run back

But Ima be laughin'

At the age of 9, saw my dad in a casket

I didn't ever wanna see that happen

1/22/13 , worst day of my life

Dad, you hear me rappin' ?

I do this for you, I hope that you're proud of the man you became

I won't ever do drugs

That's why you won't ever see me rappin'

Mom, if you hear this, you raised me right

I won't ever do drugs, it won't ever happen

Cuz Ima be the best, let you finally rest

Been workin' 20 years, I know that you stressed

And Marc, if you hearin' this, trust me, I'm serious

I'm so grateful that you in my life

My dad couldn't do it, you a true dad

Helpin' with everything, you a true dad

When my mom was workin' , who was there for me?

Yeah, Marc was, man really cares for me

Expressin' this song to show my gratitude

I write how I feel, I don't care if it's bad for you

I don't care if I get hate on this song

I don't care if it's 3 minutes long

Yeah

(I don't care if it's 3 minutes long)

They don't see my vision

I rap with precision

They say there's nothing to see in me

Maybe cuz you don't believe in me

But Ima be laughin'

When I'm doin' shows, they all hear me rappin'

It's gonna be lit, they'll call it a hit

Reminiscing on when I wanted to quit

I remember a night, I was like 12

I once really thought about killin' myself

Nobody loved me, nobody liked me

I got this rage fillin' up inside of me

I couldn't tell anyone these thoughts in my head

It's crazy that my friends once wanted me dead

But I never showed it, I wanted to hide it

My face lookin' happy, you don't know what's inside it

All of my pain, it's now comin' back

"How you feel pain when you got 3 stacks?"

I don't rap for the money, don't rap for the gains

I rap for my dad, express all my pains

"T, just be happy, no need for the stressin' "

It's hard to be happy, battlin' depression

Never thought I'd be open, I'm pourin' emotions

I never get sleep, 3 A.M. when I wrote this

But I am still smilin'

I don't know how, when I think about violence

That's all my songs are, you call it "a bar" , when I say I'll do anything to make it far

But you don't know my hustle, you don't know the grind

One day I'll get signed, happiness, I'll find

I'll come out of nowhere, I swear I'll be known

I swear I'll be known, but I will feel alone

Somehow I'll do that

I feel alone, but you already knew that

One day I'll wake up, and think of the days, when I felt depressed, and say- "Man, I went through that?"

Listen right now, I know it's hard

But if you are true, you will make it far

Just bet on yourself, always believe

And Trust God, He always has a reason

Trust me