So Far

Yeah
First, let me say this song is a review
Down memory lane and dedicated to you
I've spent half of my life
Trying to chase fame
Scripted out my stories
For albums I did the same
Wait a second let me back up
Back in 8th grade I had visions I would stack up
All the nights spent thinking how to get my racks up
I was so discouraged so my music gear I packed up
Even farther back when
I was young and I lost one of my best friends
On the road where they targeted the black men
I wrote raps spilling ink from my black pen
Middle school days in a middle school daze
So infatuated that's a middle school phase
She a violator of the middle school ways
School of hard knocks don't know why she didn't play

How we come so far
How we come so far yeah
How we come so far
How we come so far yeah
How we come so far
How we come so far yeah
How we come so far
How we come so far

Didn't go to topsail but I went to Early College
Bus rides know my pen scribbling the mileage
Left behind my past guess it's sorta symbolic
Know I'm smart without it but I'm glad I got the knowledge
Went in for computers came out an engineer
Aspirations of a baller I just let em disappear
Then I thought about it, I'm gone need a little gear
Delicate with mixes that the population hear
But no one would rap for me
No one would take a chance
That said I'm mad corny
No thank you in advance
So I picked up a pen and got deadly
I approached the mic and started working directly
Made em unsteady they said I sounded alright
Message was fire, I had to put it on ice
Ten years later and that kid still nice
Look how far I came from an open mic night

How we come so far
How we come so far yeah
How we come so far
How we come so far yeah
How we come so far
How we come so far yeah
How we come so far
How we come so far

Now I'm many things but I'm still the same man
Still the same man that had figured out a plan
Graduate, teach, rap, then disappear
Plans got moved by two or three years
I'm an author, teacher, dare I say a GOAT
Piecing out the sections of this story that I wrote
Let it resonate you in the presence of King
Learn to take a joke that's just what the game needs
Everybody killers, pill poppers and fakes
But nobody knows how much power that it takes
For me to hold my tongue and just let y'all live life
But if you send a shot imma send it back twice
Living minding business but I still can't breathe
Give you solid gold but you still ain't pleased
You can do your best but I still won't start
Being true to myself is how I made it this far

How we come so far
How we come so far yeah
How we come so far
How we come so far yeah
How we come so far
How we come so far yeah
How we come so far
How we come so far yeah