Complacent ft. Das Da Beat Junkie & Blueprint Lyrics

The irony of this is COVID boosted my creative juice

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide man what I say is truth

Can't make excuses put myself into a box

I'm otherwise trying to climb out of on my quest for the top

Yo, been on a role, got this pen feeling warm

Got a few projects on the go to release to the swarm

Stepping out the realm of complacency so easy to stall

High off your own supply for too long you start feeling the fall

Man I'm guilty to a fault

Easy to make excuses under the guise of downtime to bring things to a halt

Creative writing abort, mental block on my thoughts

Mental picket line strike, writing rhymes feeling forced

Confidence lacking the sauce to get me back on course

No one else blame but myself like that's my fault

The ball is back in my court, I've got to figure it out

Stuck on this blank page for too long and I'm sick of it now

Too complacent off my last release, it was a masterpiece

Feeling myself, I felt my pen and pad had to breathe

During that time off I lost a bit of drive

Now I stare in the mirror of a man that I no longer recognize

Too complacent off my last release, it was a masterpiece

Feeling myself, I felt my pen and pad had to breathe

During that time off I lost a bit of drive

Now I stare in the mirror of a man that I no longer recognize

Put the pedal to the metal was my M.O

Now I deal with the repercussions of when you try to settle

And coast, cruise control while you're resting on your laurels

Complacency will have you bed ridden like some florals

The 1st hurdle is rising to reach that plateau

The 2nd hurdle's maintaining that level's flat slope

And if you're that dope, the slope stays on an incline

Upwards, never heading on the decline

Yo, it's human nature to bask in ones achievements

The key is understanding what happens after that event

The yearning and the honing of one's craft is everlasting

And I realize it now I took this here passion for granted

Uphill climb off hiatus getting back to game form

Bench pressing in the lab getting my pen game strong

Reinvigorating this hunger for music that had me high

Keep creating regardless of who, the what, where's and whys

Too complacent off my last release, it was a masterpiece

Feeling myself, I felt my pen and pad had to breathe

During that time off I lost a bit of drive

Now I stare in the mirror of a man that I no longer recognize

Too complacent off my last release, it was a masterpiece

Feeling myself, I felt my pen and pad had to breathe

During that time off I lost a bit of drive

Now I stare in the mirror of a man that I no longer recognize

They say you learn more from failure than you do success

Only adversity can really put you to the test

How to move through the stress, how to do more with less

They were sleeping on you but you wouldn't rest

Every time you want to race you would lose step

Trying to push the pace but all you want to do is rest

While they expect you to continue to impress, to continue to invest

Never coasting do your best, yes

A foolish man gets drunken from his victories

A wise man gets sobered by his losses

The side effect of being trapped in complacency

And never understanding what the true cause is

You've got to win enough to maintain your hunger

But not lose so much that you start to get discouraged

After the victory comes the real danger

'Cause fighting a complacency, that takes courage like that