Book of Daniel

Before they chisel the last four numbers on my tombstone

Know I left so many sons behind, could fill a group home

Inspired your favorite, so label me th greatest

This road was filled with potholes 'till I came through and paved it

Made it out a city where most just give up

Downplay the hard work and say it's just good luck

Used to write rhymes 'til I start to tear up

Lost a couple of punchline 'cause the ink smeared up

Now I made it past a decade, who the top Dot, and Thebe

And that's me, the big three, don't give a fuck what they say

Don't care about the sales unless we moving them bills

And got fronted a loan from Mexican cartels

But it's still life or death, it ain't hard to tell

And interviews snitching, still to make a sale

It's a cold world out there, keep your snorkels lift up

Doing anything for content, see them numbers go up

How we go from mixtapes to clickbait

Try to play me, tell me how my fist taste

Fuck punching in, I'ma write 'til my wrists break

So they can see the words every time they hit play

Rewind a couple times to understand what I'm tryna say

Still be doing this if the pay was minimum wage

A God MC, 'cause He talk through me

Just a vessel with a message, in due time, you'll see

Was an addict with a habit 'cause this light, couldn't grasp it

Now it's magic when I sit behind this mic with a passage

Sorta like the book of Daniel, was trapped with them lions

But I believe, interpreted my dreams, I know who I am

I walk around in surf with my head held high

'Cause I know I told the truth, and this game is a lie

Sleeping real good at night 'cause I'm proud of myself

Say a prayer when I wake up because that rehab helped

When I didn't have hope I was turning to dope

Drinking 'till I passed out 'cause I just couldn't cope

Everything I went through had me drowning on the surface

Discovered who I am, now I know my life purpose

So it was all worth it, now just pay me mind

I put my lifetime in between the paper lines