My First Song (Keep Tryin')

Look, to tell the truth y'all - I'm feeling pretty lost

I was trying to be a boss but they nailed me to a cross

Cut open my head so that they can read my thoughts

Blessed with this gift but it came at a cost

I be cursed in my own mind, hurts when I don't rhyme

Workin' on my verses like I'm searching through a gold mine

Lately I've been faced with reality, even college graduates barely got a salary

Rappers think they fat but they barely got a calorie

Grew up in Seattle, where they used to call me Casualty

Because I never backed down from a battle scene

Life is good but it damn sure ain't hassle free

An MC, well it's sort of what I had to be

My life is one big beautiful catastrophe

I take a rap beat, turn it into a masterpiece

A starving artist, I ain't leaving 'til I had a feast

There's some things that I had to experience to stop being oblivious

And take life serious, I'm so tired everyday I feel delirious

Only livin' for the people who be hearing this

I make music cause see that's where all my spirit is

The definition of a heart felt lyricist

Hard to find, it don't matter what year this is

Nearly died now I'm livin' with this fearlessness

Like whatever gonna happen, hope it happens for a reason

If it don't well then I'm coast, still be happy that I'm eating

Life ain't fair, that's why I'm rappin' instead of preachin'

So I'm absolutely passionate with every word I'm speakin'

If you feel it then just pass it on, it's more people I'm reachin

A student of the truth but it's the youth that I be teachin'

If you breathing in the air seeing things ain't really fair

Make a difference because you can instead of livin' like you isn't there

Most nights well I feel like I have to write, my life's a chess game -

Seeing things black and white. We live like animals, thinkin' of the afterlife

It's overwhelming so we drinkin' or we pass the pipe

I go to rap shows, wishin' they would pass the mic -

'Cause they repeatin' what you heard like a class you don't like

I'm back in the fight, ain't asking you twice It's only ignorance left so I pass on the right