LOTTERY

Taking my chances like the lottery

Like the lottery

'06, got the call that Martin died

Seen my mama face, she was horrified

Tried to walk around with a smile on

Play it real cool

But I couldn't put my heart aside

Couple years later, momma got sick

Now it's getting to harder to be happy

Spending every single second putting

Poems in a notebook all my homies left me

Lonely, they would party, I was rapping

I was in and out depression

Tryna find a way up out it

Writing down bars in the middle of the class

Told a girl about my dreams

All she ever did was doubted

Couple years pass, things moving real fast

Now I'm sixteen, labels wanna fly me out

Two tapes under the belt and one on the way

Couple people said a couple nice

Words about me online

Now my haters got nothing to say

Met a few people that I used

To put on my playlist

Turns out, they ain't who I thought they was

Few years in the game, now I'm acclimated

Off of being myself, I done caught some buzz

But I'm still lightyears away from my goals

Mom got bills and chemo ain't cheap

I ain't have bread to buy my school clothes

Didn't do assignments, I would sell beats

Walking through the halls with

My headphones on not a dollar in my pocket

Tryna tryna come up on a meal

Scheming in the studio, plotting on a mill'

I was flat broke, said "No" to a deal

I need all of mine, yeah, I said it

I need all of mine

They just see me as a dollar sign

I'm tryna own the building, working overtime

For every single dark night

I'm supposed to shine, You feel me

I'm from a place where

They really don't stay

But you really never leave

(Really never leave)

Every single thing that I said I would

That's what I'm gon' be

(What I'm gon' be) nothing's impossible

Nothing's impossible if you believe

(If you believe)

I got this ticket that's right

In my hand and I'm

Tryna come up, we got a lot of dreams, yeah