Before The Drama Lyrics

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