You catch my rock, rolling down Boulevard got dreams, keep on dreaming
High school teen, never got it didn't get to go how I expected Now a nigga pissed, steady at the bottom of the list Like where the re my projections? Nigga's "Next year Tory all good, you'll be next year's story" Then I said "Man, you even understand Man, I'm droppin' out now, no next year for me" So I left, bus to the bitch down 53 Took the last dollar I had for this dream And I it on some naughty nonsense, Micky D's Shit, wasn't too fine Then I made a call to this nigga named he had a little studio and it wasn't top-notch But could damn near do the whole So I said "Cool" a few songs in this shit Stayed too in this shit But by the month, I was there so Nigga's had to lay futons in shit I was in my mom's Drove to my shows in a new Jetta Always said one day I be the man I just laugh like, who are you tellin' Me, go far I can dream in this world full of stars I can still scheme in this full of narcs If they can still and I'm on my car show dream, I'mma dream, dream I'mma dream dream you said to me Best words that said to me Best words that were to me
Ten miles, from a long way home I'm headed cause I'm workin' on this lil mixtape With no fillers, no throwaway songs, hopin' that shit just go for me, this shit didn't So I make another mixtape and another mixtape and mixtape 'Til them nigga's start sayin' hidden Then I meet a guy named Sascha , he tells me he's thinkin' 'bout takin' up Say he got a million empire on his mind, he just need an artist to plan it with He also say he throw out in Texas and maybe I should open up for one Then I say cool he books me the next flight out like I'm showin' up for somethin' I lay down Houston around nine, live Was my show ever, nigga's damn near got boo'd off stage I my first live show ever Women in the crowd scream for a nigga Nigga's in the crowd was ? up down Bad enough let Bun B watch But I feel like I let Sascha down, shit was live on dawg That felt like a nigga had the whole world on my shoulders Twenty years old tryna find the one in this world gettin' colder Then he came to me like, dawg, I could put money on this, bet a hundred on Gives me a few tips for the next night, set list says you can run it on this And it all out
a big world The your dream, the bigger you're livin' it It's all in your Don't let no body fuck up high It's a big The bigger your dream, the bigger livin' it all in your mind Don't let no body up your high
Father, I up my son I lift up that travels with him and by his speed I pray that you go ahead of him I assign angels now to this assignment And I declare Father that they will go before you to make his path, I command that every crooked path would be made straight, rough place would be made smooth Every obstacle, barricade, every blockade Every conspiracy, every trap, right now is destroyed and removed out of his way in the name of And I thank you that it is written that goodness and and mercy, form all the things of our life
That was it, I had hit rock bottom, lowest point of my Just me, the music and a quarters in my pocket Then it hit me, the phone call would change my life
(Hello) Hi, hi, is this, is this Lanez? Yeah, who Hi, this is Mike from Interscope Uhm, you slid me your music a couple weeks ago when I was the office Oh yeah, up? Uh, I didn't have a chance to listen to it until and Oh my head is blown off Oh thank you so bro, thank you Ah we to talk (For sure) Uh, do you have time week to sit down? Uhm yeah, yeah, Does does Friday for you? that works, that works Okay, let's that in cool I, I gotta run okay? Let's soon, see ya bye
Okay, perfect, I we got him Aye, aye Mike, let me ask you You really think this kid could hit records? Honestly? The music speaks for Well go ahead and let's listen, let's see what got, let's put it in Okay, do it