Before the Drama

You know I've been thinking a lot lately man
Just about everything I've done you know
The things that made me the man I am today
I wouldn't change it
But still I lie awake at night sometimes and I

I close my eyes and think of better times before the drama
Before I came to slave to what I call this new persona
It really the same Chris just shed some prior trauma
I act like I've changed to justify doing what I wanna
Hell that's why I'm tryna start a
Career y'all said was hopeless
Kinda funny how you changed tune once I got noticed
Hell I hope you know this
I put in the work there no tricks or hypnosis
Cos both my eyes on the future I be clairvoyant to some
I got a year to make it a clear voyage I'm on
The money slowly coming I feel like the Holy One
I'm resting
Work done for the green like a Hole in One
I'm stressing
King's path since six like a noble's son
I'm guessing
The scheme fire execution hard
Let's refocus was besides the point like a shooting guard
The team know it
Weary the head where the crown be resting
Feel I'm the best and I don't need no second guessing
Or questioning from the plebs who coming at me on Twitter
Fresh squeeze they lemonade the way they always been bitter
I feel I'm in this alone like no one found me a sitter
No one's been on base with me like I'm throwing a no-hitter
Go figure
Life changing and it been pretty quick
Directionless
Catch myself surfing through the abyss huh
Grew up in London but I can't relate to it
International
Stateside that's where all my bases is
All the guys who never tried that's what my basis is
In the thrill of the hunt you could say the chase is where my status is
I sacrificed a lot to reach this position
Had to cut some guys off to catalyze the mission
Thought it'd be easy to let them go
Focus on the listens
But it's true
You ain't know what you've got until it's missing
With every listen
Perspectives do shift
No nametag
Everybody recognizes my gift
I know I'm different
Within a verse you see
Just left college
My experience of a first degree
So you see
Tides been shifting I'm ready for it
Aimless G's
They guise been missing
Game need a steady force so stay on course
Feel I'm the best no hyperbole
Real talk power brokers now days be observing me
All the industry back and forths
They ain't concerning me
They throw so many rocks you swear that they booth a conservatory
You heard of me?
If not you will in due time I do fine
I start from the bottom so this a true climb
I'm on fire from the start when I been getting mine
Takes seven seconds for you to the signs guess that's why i be divine
Get it
Seven seconds don't you forget it
I come from a place where the work ethic really pathetic
Life pressure be hectic
Taught to follow a path
Told if you deviate you'll only ever end up in last
So you can imagine where I'm at
Between a rock and a hard place
Been a jock as an act
Tryna get to a start date yeh
Last 12 have been a wild ride
I've got geographical goals hell I'm aiming worldwide
They say hard work makes dreams come true but not quite
I'm like six years deep into waging the good fight
I know not too many make it to the top flight
The green only go to the top
Opposite of a stop light
I been grinding tryna find my way
People hate on my past I guess they just got nothing else to say
Ironic
The least ambitious be the loudest critics
Iconic
At this point I've been around a minute I ain't finished mind your business
This is what I do
This just to remind you I been this
This ain't nothing new
Cos I've been rapping quick schemes since 2015
So if you ask what this mean to me it be everything
For real
Man
For real
So if you ask what this mean to me it be everything uh
Damn
It so much easier before the drama
Yeh