STEM THE TIDE

Getting this different look in my eye

Lil pep to my step, like you can't stem my tide

Finally arrived in a better state of mind, but

Still searching for a better place in time

See I'm the same kid from way back, just now a made man

See the way I state facts gon get me paid in advance, yo

I got labels making plans and hoes holding out they hands, yo

I made some moves these fools couldn't comprehend

Addict for notepads loaded with elite raps

At it again, like I relapsed

Mic stands posing as rehab

Junkie for hip hop, and zip lock bags

Filled with green crops to get high fast

Heart so cold, I fear I'll bleed black

Send my mind to blue skies with all the green grass

Couple drags got me gone off my ass

Drown in my thoughts, in time I'll come back

In touch with my flaws, I'm crazy for that

In love with my art, yo they hate me for that

I'm persuaded and swayed by the bass when it slap

My game stays in tact, I'm erasing the gap

Stay chasing a bag to stuff the safe with some cash

Try to stray away from temptations I know will end bad

Stay in my lane till I make it at last

Times change, I leave the pain in the past

I'm humbled by what I had, and grateful for what I have

I owe this to myself, to see if it's who I am

Yeah

I'm the same kid from way back just now a made man

See the way I state facts gon get me paid in advance

Yo

Where I'm from it gets colder than 11 degrees

Pops did that time, had me searching for his letters to read

No hard feeling cause it gave me something better to see

He looked in my eyes and said; you gon be better than me

Came a long way from dj sets, if you retrace steps

And those sketches no checkers cause we play chess

Who up against us, put the bank on it, we take bets

I know my pen game is the strongest that's why we take checks, ugh

The Grammy awards couldn't withstand the applause

I get from these jams that I'm on