All A Dream Lyrics

It feel like it was all a dream

It's like it was all a dream

I think it was it all a dream (I used to read Word Up magazines, sike naw I was never really feeling those)

Was it all a dream? (I was looking at The Source and Vibe, XXL, shit like that but let's go back)

But it seems like it was all a dream

Jigga dropped Hard Knock Life back in '98

My mom got it in '99, kinda late

Knew that I would rap when I grew up, I couldn't wait

Steady recording the radio and making mixtapes

By the time I was nine, X was in his prime

Was really paying attention, I guess this was a sign

Cause I was listening to everybody all the time

My uncle and my pop forcing me to freestyle

All the girls loved Bow Wow

I had his first two CD's, who would've thought he would foul out?

In 5th grade took the stage at a talent show

I thought"if I could do this this is how imma know"

Wasn't worried bout how a rapper can get a lot of dough

Learning how to write songs but I kept it kinda low

State Prop hit Philly hard back when I was so, young

And Roc-A-Fella had it locked, really watching though

(It feel like it was all a dream)

I used to think about times like this, had to grind like that to rhyme like this

(It's like it was all a dream)

From cyphers and battles, from the school to the block, going in, I used to do it a lot

(I think it was it all a dream)

And now it's different I get with it and I miss it, but I could never relive it

(Was it all a dream?)

Some people start to think they dreams a waste, not me, I got a dream to chase

(But it seems like it was all a dream)

14 years old battled anywhere I'm at

Watching all them DVD's wishing they would hear me rap

Morning cyphers sound like a riot, principal scared of that

In placements carried it on my own, no scaredy-cat

16 got sat in a group home doing time

Came home 17 not thinking bout getting signed

Y'all know what I was on, I became a Dad then

More responsibilities but I still had this passion

Half way focused, other half I was hopeless

Fired from jobs, tryna juggle while I'm promoting

(I was) wasting time and, then you change ya mind when

They never work out damn that must be a sign, been

Chasing it forever for a buzz for it

Now I'm strictly only doing it for the love for it

Back then I never knew how much an artist does for it

And I was for it but the game changed, I wanna move on, I think

(It feel like it was all a dream)

I used to think about times like this, had to grind like that to rhyme like this

(It's like it was all a dream)

From cyphers and battles, from the school to the block, going in, I used to do it a lot

(I think it was it all a dream)

And now it's different I get with it and I miss it, but I could never relive it

(Was it all a dream?)

Some people start to think they dreams a waste, not me, I got a dream to chase

(But it seems like it was all a dream)