Mama Told Me

My digi told me that I'm never gonna make it out

My mama told me, "Don't you ever let 'em hold you down."

I made my mama proud, and I'm about to give my all

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

My digi told me that I'm never gonna make it out

My mama told me, "Don't you ever let 'em hold you down."

I made my mama proud, and I'm about to give my all

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

My teacher told me she was scared

Of me back when I was sixteen

Spent my days writing, "Sixteen,"

And put it all on my dreams

A young man searching for

Something real to hold onto

Only good at this rap shit, so I

Never did any work in school

All my folders filled with rap songs

All day living in the fog, and non-believers

People telling me I'm doing it wrong, but all alone

There were times in life, I was tired, and trying

, so of course my fire was a constant reminder

Of their desires that they never achieved, so they put out mine

But that's not so easy, 'cause I believe this

Pages will bring me the peace I'm needing, eventually be me

'til my heart stops bleeding

I give my all to the belief that we

All need to start a chase until we fall

My digi told me that I'm never gonna make it out

My mama told me, "Don't you ever let 'em hold you down."

I made my mama proud, and I'm about to give my all

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

My psychiatrist once told me I was fucking up

Told her, "I'ma be a rapper," she said I was hella dumb

She said there's only one Michael Jordan

, and that I'd never become him, but it's hard to

Understand perseverance if you ain't met the mud

Bitch, I came up from the bottom

You don't understand my problems

How you judge a whole when you

Ain't never had to get up out it?

Shit. Fuck being mad, it's you don't struggle for no profit

Just to break even, we was counting pennies that's

In our pocket; see, your profit was something that

We always seen as inconceivable

But a prophet once told me to keep the faith

And he would see you through

I'm teetering between the edge of real and what's deceiving you

But opinions ain't valid from the people that don't believe in you

My digi told me that I'm never gonna make it out

My mama told me, "Don't you ever let 'em hold you down."

I made my mama proud, and I'm about to give my all

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

Tell there's nothing else that I can give

My digi told me that I'm never gonna make it out

My mama told me, "Don't you ever let 'em hold you down."

I made my mama proud, and I'm about to give my all

Tell there's

Nothing else that I can give