2nd Grade Lyrics

I've been writing since the second grade

I just put my headphones on and let em play

Take me to a better place, I just wanna get away

I just close my eyes cause I'm hoping I can find a different pathway

Yeah, you just gotta meet me halfway

Everybody's got a problem like it's personal, I promise you that ain't nobody perfect though

Yo, I've lost more books than you've probably written

And I'm not even kidding

I was writing at the beginning of third grade, asking for a mic on my ninth birthday

Yeah, I ain't get it though, but I ain't let it go

Asked for it on my tenth and eleventh and when I went to the seventh I had to get with the message

I started writing everyday but no one liked what I would say so I just tried to get away

I tried to run away from everyone but I don't get to run because I'm never done

There's always something left to come, it's like my life has just begun cuz I be focused on the future, I don't write this shit for fun

I'm telling you now, this shit is fucking wild, I've been on my own struggling since I was just a child

Yeah, now I'm on my own chilling, taking on the world, I'm the most dope villain

I've been writing since the second grade

I just put my headphones on and let em play

Take me to a better place, I just wanna get away

I just close my eyes cause I'm hoping I can find a different pathway

Yeah, you just gotta meet me halfway

Everybody's got a problem like it's personal, I promise you that ain't nobody perfect though

Where's the logic in recycling rhymes

Every topic that I'm writing is mine

And every option that I got I'm never stopping till I find

A product I can push so I can live by my design

I just wanna be my own man

I don't need your help and I don't wanna hold hands

Always kicking slow jams, I don't wanna go dance I can stand on my own two feet and I promise you

Yeah, I learned that shit from my Mama Dukes

Not because she told me but because she showed me

Played a lot of games but I never got a trophy

Hold up

Yo, focused on the future I'm motivated through the rhymes

No debating who defines even if I lose my mind

Don't be acting too surprised when they choosing sides

It's an easy decision between you and I cause

I've been writing since the second grade

I just put my headphones on and let em play

Take me to a better place, I just wanna get away

I just close my eyes cause I'm hoping I can find a different pathway

Yeah, you just gotta meet me halfway

Everybody's got a problem like it's personal, I promise you that ain't nobody perfect though

Yo, I miss that type of vibe, that different type of vibe

That driving down the road in the middle of the night with a little bit of light and brights on

Yo, I feel it every time I turn the mic on

This is not a fucking hobby, I don't mean to be so cocky

But I feel it on the real in every bone inside my body

You can block me at the door and try to throw me out the lobby

I ain't going nowhere and I promise

You just hate me cause you know I'm being honest

And I'm breaking all the normal economics

So I stay up in your mouth like orthodontists

But they preying on the people I was proud of

Yo, I learned there's not a person I can count on but myself

It's all about the way I play the cards that I was dealt

Cause nobody gives a fuck about the way you might have felt

You should know that, so I got my own back

I'll be writing till I hit the grave

I'll just put my headphones on and drift away

Last time hitting play, past times, different days

I'll just close my eyes and I'll think about the times that I had faith

Yeah, and if I end up in the bad place

Then I'll climb until I'm stomping on the surface

And I'll do it all again because I promise it was worth it