Rags 2 Bags ft. Atlas Lyrics

Ahhh this might come off as a humble brag song, but that's not what it's meant to be though

The older I get, the more I realize how beneficial it's been to use my music and self-reflect

Help me process through tough past events in my life in a healthy way

This song's about how being rich isn't about money

But being surrounded by people who love you and care about

Helping you become the best version of yourself

Some of that stuff was my optimism and positivity, but without people around me

Helping me believe I'm worthy of what's possible

I wouldn't have been able to overcome the impossible

So let's get it

Rags to riches, triumph's what I'm getting

Scratched all my itches, mentally and when it gets to be

The preparations over the top are helping me

Overcoming the things that trying to stop my entity

So I pause the entropy, stop the wish of my enemies

They wanna see the end of me

They undercover like some black ops

Gotta stay scoped, they pressing on the have nots

Be we got a lil luck, we like a shamrock

The son of grinding immigrants, ya boy's an African

The nineties was a wild time pause, here comes the ampersand

Didn't have a lot

But I had a lot of backing

Family made it happen

And the homies got it cracking

If you try to hold me down, that's just a hold out

A weed through the cracks, you know that Imma show out

Education everlasting yeah, that helped me climb it up

And when an opportunity showed, I had to grind it up

I remember working 20 hour days

When tuition money calls gotta find a job that pays

Hopped up on my bike

Rode it to the bus

Breaking bricks and paving man you do just what you must

Hopped up on the train

My body full of pain

Night shift at the bar cleaning puke about the drain

Rinse and repeat yeah, that's no pun intended

Half an hour sleeping every night it never ended

Never backing down

Rather break than bow

Went from rags to bags

And in all of this made my family proud

There's no backing down

Rather break than bow

Went from rags to bags but the humble brags

That we happy now, right now

Days they steady blended but the money was steady stackin' up

A Juvenile turn to a man no time to back it up

My best friend know it, he say my smile's deadly

Keeps 'em under fire like a Machine gun, Kelly

And I can't get jacked son

This ain't no thriller man

When it's time to get shit done, I'm a stone cold killer man

No Steve Austin, burning tracks like Krueger fam

Go check your expectations you've done in all your limits man

Stacking up records, like a NAS in the biz

And I'm the biznass with class that's everlasting

You can try and lap this kid

But I've tapped into making sure we never trappin' and the track is

Where ya brother's Max is no Payne

Bullet time is what we flashing

I hope you're grasping never thrashin'

Like Batman and Robin we Baskin in color and tiger slashes

And darknesses dripping out here in my blackness

What's happening

I'm spitting on this record like I'll never rap again

And had to take the cadence back again

Make it slap again

Hear it in this voice that I'm proud to be an African

What happened to the hook is what you're asking

But this song's for when the trash has been classified by the masses

One side would be the racists

And then we add in all classists

It's kind of magic they box you in but then you rise up

From all the ashes, laser focused on what the task is

It led ya to the bag kid

But you always proud to let em know you from that place

Where the rags come from

And you wear them rags proudly

Yeah I'm done, nahhhh

You know I gotta make the bad times good times

My bad, forgot to tell you all that I could rhyme

It ain't about the money

My core remain the same

Can't take nothing from me in my own hall of fame, yeah

Never backing down

Rather break than bow

Went from rags to bags

And in all of this made my family proud

There's no backing down

Rather break than bow

Went from rags to bags but the humble brags

That we happy now, right now

Never backing down

Rather break than bow

Made my family proud

There's no backing down

Went from rags to bags but the humble brags

That we happy now, right now

Never backing down

Rather break than bow

Went from rags to bags

And in all of this made my family proud

There's no backing down

Rather break than bow

Went from rags to bags but the humble brags

That we happy now, right now

Never backing down

Rather break than bow

Went from rags to bags

And in all of this made my family proud