All For the Taking

It was all for the taking all for the choosing
Little did I know it was the start of a movement
Saw what it took it was worth the commitment
Now when I wake up I have a certain jurisdiction
It's all me mama what you think about that
I knew it wasn't luck when it struck again and again
Now a friend is a friend and I don't trust new faces
Struggled with the thought of blowing up in new places

Took it up a notch shook it up and watched
Fresh vans I just took 'em out the box
Throwing hands with the hands on the clock
Showtimes the only time I plan and I plot
I stand in a padded room all day and night
And I write throw an alley-oop tryna get it right
When it clicks that's the moment they been waiting for
Behind the mic I am not the same person that you take me for
Modest versus cocky versus confident
I'm searching for the perfect words immersed in contradiction
Now I move a mile a minute left my conscience in the past
All my thoughts got twisted now it's time to relapse
To a better place kick it back and demonstrate
Whatever it takes for clarity I put it together carefully
It's me against me and that's the only comparison
I might never see the day I say it's fine to relax

It was all for the taking all for the choosing
Little did I know it was the start of a movement
Saw what it took it was worth the commitment
Now when I wake up I have a certain jurisdiction
It's all me mama what you think about that
I knew it wasn't luck when it struck again and again
Now a friend is a friend and I don't trust new faces
Struggled with the thought of blowing up in new places

I did a lot of soul searching I didn't find much
But I did find clues in the blues that I groove to
Not like I used to pay too much attention
I got nothing left to be doing what you do
It's voodoo glued to the cause and effect
And I lost some respect when I lost my connection
And talked like I knew what I wanted from the jump
Did a lotta soul searching and didn't find much
I'm setting the record for wrecking my reputation
My family asked me what's cracking I told 'em I started rapping
And strangers became stranger haters became haters
And later became the same people treating me like we're family
It's a dirty dozen left in the circle and they're left on alert when it gets real
Until I'm six feet deep in the dirt and asleep in the earth
Imma stay doing me and if I don't somebody else will
Tipped the scale the rictor scale my ex girls looking at me now
Like they chipped a nail
I been wild been foul but it's business still
Sicker than Benadryl or fentanyl
I been ascending to a higher place searching for a higher power
Driving down a one way road with unchanged goals
They can stick to what they know and what they're told
And watch the way I find it on my own but that's what they chose

It was all for the taking all for the choosing
Little did I know it was the start of a movement
Saw what it took it was worth the commitment
Now when I wake up I have a certain jurisdiction
It's all me mama what you think about that
I knew it wasn't luck when it struck again and again
Now a friend is a friend and I don't trust new faces
Struggled with the thought of blowing up in new places