| Ayo real talk, 6ix
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| As soon as you played me this joint, I already knew
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| I was like, «Yo, this some fucking, 'Last Call' shit»
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| And it got me hella excited 'cause I always wanted to do like
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| A «Last Call,» I remember the first time I heard Kanye’s
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| I thought that shit was so tight, dawg
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| And I was like, man I’m tryna tell my story, you know what I’m sayin'?
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| And then uh, I remember Cole did it, when did he do it?
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| He was on Friday Night—
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| Nah, nah, he did it on The Warm Up yo
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| And when he did the «Last Call» on The Warm Up, I was like «Damn,
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| I’m tryna do mine»
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| So since—since this joint got that vibe, I’ma do my own «Last Call»
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| right now for y’all
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| And my voice is messed up too, this is the last track of Young Sinatra
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| Yeah, yeah
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| Back in the day I wasn’t shit, homie
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| Penny pinchin', I couldn’t even pay the rent, homie
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| Thinkin' 'bout it I wonder where them years went, homie
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| Just a youngin' tryna survive, they was hatin' on me
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| I was working that nine-to-five, I was waitin', homie
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| I was bussin' tables fantasizin' 'bout cakin', homie
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| Letting 'em slip away my dreams, wasn’t waitin' on me
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| This for anyone with ambition, calling anybody that’ll listen
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| I’m wishing all your dreams come true, 'cause mine did
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| And yeah, you know I had to put that in the rhyme kit
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| But that shit came from sacrifice
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| Not on the corner selling drugs and smackin' dice (Listen)
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| Yeah
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| Someway, somehow, I understood finally
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| If you want to come and get it, you know where to find me
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| 'Cause I ain’t got no time for anybody that be tryin' me
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| Know if they don’t understand, I’ma leave 'em behind me
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| Obviously
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| I ain’t got no time, no, no
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| I said obviously
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| I said I don’t got no time, no, no, no, no, no
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| Yeah, yeah
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| I treat the beat like it’s my only son, my DNA
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| And this that Southernplayalistic shit like we was in the A
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| Back in the day, I was Young, Broke & Infamous
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| A Young Sinatra that was Undeniable
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| Who Welcome-d you To Forever while Under Pressure
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| And told you The Incredible True Story of Bobby Tarantino
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| And Everybody in the Ultra 85
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| Goddamn, it feel good to be alive
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| And all these bitches that I passed up
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| Couldn’t fuck witcha 'cause your hair was too gassed up
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| 'Member creeping with the gat, masked up
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| God damn, it’s kinda crazy to reminisce on all this shit man
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| What it was like growing up
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| Damn man, just, motherfuckers running in and out of the crib
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| Doing drugs, selling drugs, all types of stuff
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| Meanwhile, I was just tryna keep it together
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| I was tryna make sense—sense of all this shit around me
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| I didn’t know how to take it, how to perceive it, you know what I mean?
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| And then meanwhile I’m supposed to be going to school and getting good grades
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| and shit
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| But I’m seeing like, domestic violence in my house
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| And just, so much going on
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| And I’m sure everybody was probably like, «Man, yo»
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| «Why little Bobby didn’t come to school today?»
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| On the real, I was doin' anything to run away
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| And that’s the same reason kids join gangs every day
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| 'Cause they wanna be accepted, but at home they too neglected
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| Meanwhile, white America quick to call him a thug
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| But all he ever wanted was a father to give him some love
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| Tell him that he love him, that he need him
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| Promise he won’t ever leave him
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| Never smoke crack, never lie, and won’t never beat him
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| It feel like for my life I been needed a break
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| Looking at my family, I ain’t wanna make the same mistake
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| And I know that shit sound fucked up but they not all doin' great
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| Oh God, please
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| Can I have a conversation with a member of my family without it ending asking
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| me for five G’s?
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| To pay they bills or they lawyer fees (Huh)
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| I learned something, I ain’t giving y’all a dime
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| I’ll give you something worth more—that's my time
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| I ain’t dropping stacks, I’m dropping knowledge
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| Unless it’s for my nieces and nephews to go to college
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| And hit me on the phone, hit me up
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| Like, «Uncle Bob, where you at?
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| Yeah, I know your pockets fat but I don’t give a fuck 'bout that
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| I’m glad we family» (Uh)
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| We a half-breed family, yeah, yeah, uh
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| Man, see, I remember when I was like fifteen years old
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| And my dad took me to the studio |
| I know this is random, I’m tryna take you guys through it, right?
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| And, I’ll never forget it, I had like eight rhyme books
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| He’ll tell you—he'll tell you, man
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| I just, I went through them motherfuckers
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| I was rapping for like fifteen minutes straight
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| And that was my first time, yo
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| I was like tenth grade, in the studio
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| And I knew that this was what I wanted to do
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| I knew it
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| I knew it ever since I first saw Kill Bill
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| I been flowin' like that blood, Uma Thurman spilled
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| None other than the RZA, yeah he did the soundtrack
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| And then I discovered Wu-Tang soon as I found that
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| And then Big L, Mos Def, and Nas, it wasn’t no turning back
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| I couldn’t change it if I tried, homie, how 'bout that?
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| See, I’m a student of the game, so simple and plain
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| But I’ma take it back to before I ever sat first class on a plane
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| I was in College Park, right?
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| Well I guess, technically, if you wanna go before that
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| I was uh, I was living in Germantown
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| Uh, nah, actually it was Montgomery Village
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| Back in Maryland, I was living in my sister’s basement
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| And then some shit happened, you know, she kicked me out
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| It was Christmas, whatever, I love you Genie
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| Anyway, so shit happened, and then I just kept it pushing
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| You know, I was homeless for a little while, whatever, you know
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| I went, uh, I stayed at my—my mentor’s house, Solomon
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| Uh, and then I stayed back at my—my godparents' house
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| Mary Jo and Bernie, I love y’all
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| Uh, Mary Jo, I’m sorry, back when I used to smoke
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| I would steal the shit out of your cigarettes
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| I love you, I’m sorry about that, but
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| You remember—always she would let me record
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| I’d always be recording in the attic or wherever I could, so
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| I love you—thank you for supporting me there
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| But then, she was like, «You gotta get the fuck outta here» too
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| After a while, she gave me some time
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| But like, I was twenty years old at this point
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| She was like, «Nah, you gotta get the fuck outta here and do something with
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| your life»
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| And this was right around the time that I opened up my first show ever for
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| Ghostface Killah man
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| In Gaithersburg, right in Old Town
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| The shit was insane, I’ll never forget it
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| And that’s where I met my boy Lenny, Big Lenbo, wassup?!
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| That’s right, man, we just started kicking it and hanging
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| He lived in College Park, and before I knew it I was living—I was living with
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| him in his basement
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| And this was right around the time I met 6ix
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| And 6ix was going to the University of Maryland at the time, which was right
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| down the street
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| So I’d always go to their dorm room
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| I remember—there was nights I would just crash in the dorm when we was making
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| beats
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| We was doing all types of shit man
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| When we first got out, we did the first Young Sinatra
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| And now we on the fourth Young Sinatra, motherfucker! |
| That shit is crazy man
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| And I remember like, I used to steal quarters from Lenny just so I could go to
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| the 7−11 to eat
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| And he was like, «You idiot, why are you stealing? |
| Just ask me, bro»
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| And I was supposed to get a job, I was—see, I was sleeping in, uh,
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| his basement on the couch
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| Which is the—the, the cover to my first album, Under Pressure
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| Shout out Cathy, shout out the Rosado family, all my beautiful brown people!
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| We made it, it’s crazy
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| But nah, nah, listen, I’m getting ahead of myself, I’m getting ahead of myself
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| So like, I was staying with him and I was supposed to get a job, right?
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| And he was like, «Yo, you gotta get a fucking job, bro»
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| Things were going so good with the music that we kinda stopped talking about it
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| It seemed like every week something new was happening
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| And I just sat him down one day and I was like, «Look bro, I—please, like,
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| can you just give me one year, like just give me one year, man,
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| let me put everything into this, and if I don’t get it, fuck it,
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| I’ll just submit, and I’ll just—I'll just blend into society.»
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| And he was like, «Bro I’ma give you one year»
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| And for one year him, his family, all the homies, Benny, everybody man!
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| They took care of me, they put—he put clothes on my back, he put food in my
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| stomach
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| You know, he helped me with microphones, and recording |
| And yo, almost a year to the fucking day bro, I signed to Def Jam
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| And my man, he was a land surveyor, out there like making sure all the
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| buildings get built
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| Rain, snow, sleet, all that shit for twelve years, dawg!
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| And when I signed my deal I said, «Fuck that! |
| Quit your job, we’re moving to LA!
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| This shit was crazy, so we get to LA
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| We’re staying off Coldwater Canyon
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| Alta Mesa, in Studio City, man
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| And I’m going to the studio with No I.D. |
| every day
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| And uhh, like, shit is crazy
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| That’s the first time I met Cole, yo shout out Cole, that’s my fucking boy
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| Big Sean, all these homies, man, that I met, it was crazy
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| Don Cannon, everybody
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| That’s when I first met Kev
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| Bobby, my engineer—what up Bobby?
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| It was just like, life was insane
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| I dropped, uh, Young Sinatra: Undeniable, and that was crazy
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| That was insane, 'cause that was the first time
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| Me and my boys ever hit the road
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| On the real, you know we went from zero to overload
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| Performing in front of the fans, had they hands waving
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| This is all I ever wanted, this is all I’m craving
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| Me and my boy Chris shocked the game
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| Two visionaries on a mission, shit ain’t been the same
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| Some ups and downs came around, had a lot of problems
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| But no matter what happen, you know we’d always solve 'em
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| Yeah, we’d always solve 'em, like
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| Man, it’s kinda crazy thinking about it though
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| Like, so much has happened yo
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| And I mean shit, by the time y’all are hearing this, I’m 28
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| I’m 27 while I’m recording it
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| I mean, right now, literally, I’m working on Bobby Tarantino, Ultra 85,
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| Young Sinatra IV
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| And a whole bunch of other shit, man this is crazy!
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| Acting, writing, like
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| I’m just—I'm just so, I can’t believe I’m here, man
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| We grinded for so long, we worked for so long, yo
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| And motherfuckers, they hate you, man
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| They try to make me feel bad about how I look, how I speak
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| How I rap, how I act, my race, my everything
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| They just—they, they fucking hate you man
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| They’ll hate you when you’re in this position
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| But you can’t let 'em—you can’t let 'em, you can’t let that shit get to you man
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| Continue to persevere, continue to be the best you you can be 'Cause I’m here
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| right now man, best friends
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| I got everything I could ever want man
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| Even though you always want more deep down
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| And you got goals deep down, that’s great man, but fuck that shit
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| I’m so happy, I’m so blessed, man
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| So if you’re listening to this right now
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| No matter how old you are, how young you are
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| Whether you on the school bus headed to get your education
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| Or you driving home from work pissed off at your boss
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| Just, man, just please do what you love in life
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| So many people, they always say, how, «Oh, you know, I would do this—but,» or «I can’t, because»
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| And you already fucking lost, they lost
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| And I feel bad for that person 'cause that person will never make it «I would,
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| but I don’t have the money,» «I would, but I don’t have the time»
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| Fuck that, you gotta do it man
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| You gotta do what makes you happy
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| You have to live selfishly in that aspect
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| Stop worrying about others, stop freaking out
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| Just focus on yourself, man, and your own happiness
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| That’s the realest thing
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| And that’s all I can tell you, because
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| You can’t help anybody else until you can help yourself, you know what I’m
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| saying?
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| So please, put the—put the mask on first, like they say on the airplane, cuz
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| Put your—put your own motherfucking mask on
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| And go do it man
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| Go do it, just live your life
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| I love y’all, thank you so much for tuning in
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| Uh, I hope you’ve enjoyed this Young Sinatra experience, I know I have
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| Uh, this is prolly gon' be the last one though
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| Uh, this gon' be the last one for sure
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| I’m coming back with some fun, but, I don’t know
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| I love you guys! |
| Ultra 85's gonna be crazy! |
| I mean, crazy! |
| Bobby Tarantino’s
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| that trap shit, woo!
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| We took 'em back with this boom bap
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| Now we, we finna head to the future
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| We ain’t scared, we makin' music for everybody, you know what I mean?
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| I love y’all—look at that Murrland accent coming out
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| I don’t know why, every time I get on the mic that Murrland accent
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| «Go ahead 'cuh,» «jah like» all day, boy, you sound like Wale, back of your |
| neck, haha
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| I love y’all so much
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| RattPack
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| Yeah, yeah
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| Yeah! |