Before The Storm Lyrics

So many days, we all prayed, one day we would break even

From day to day, we dismayed with the attention-seeking

We talk about taking over, make sure the game is breathing

Too many actors in power, would love to see them leaving

There must be purpose, some reason to why we let this happen

Since when did good rapper get synonymous with a trapper

My city got so fucked over, everyone else is pampered

The Boy got damaged, the O is damaged, now people's laughing

Half of the city verse other half, it's real discordant

Sobered me up, made me realize on what's real important

Opened my eyes to what could be mine, I had to focus

It's do or die, have to supersize to see some motion

More than an afterthought, more than checklists and more than token

May be the one that can show my people that we ain't joking

Showing my people divided we fall is nothing empty

Shake the game up, get a spotlight right back onto my city

I leave it all in the field, the flood is coming

Paid my dues and all the homage, now lately I'm up to something

Give me credit when I work, and deny it when it ain't mine

You can run from all the problems, but never from father time

Opinions I would keep to myself, I let it fly

Only sometimes, only when I feel it's right, that's just something that I

Had a hard time getting into, but this storm is getting stronger

Arks of words, I hope they save you

No single person knows what the future will have in store

We didn't dream too much, dreams were something we shan't afford

Some Metro Babies with Glockys holding the neighbours hostage

It's all they know so what point is there when we try to stop them

Hope has a price, it's a tradeoff with your stability

If hope is broken, might never get you some clarity

For some of us, it's the bitter end of our history

Another day is another body, ain't shit to me

That is the mindset that Metro Babies had grown accustomed

You need some money? Drop out of school, better get to hustlin'

Well most of us graduated, but still there was no option

We taking steps on the carousel, end up where we started

I wrote this verse just to give the masses a little context

My city's damaged, and niggas laughing because it's content

There's been a shift in the sentiments niggas used to parrot

Looks like a new generation that I'ma have to parent

I leave it all in the field, the flood is coming

Paid my dues and all the homage, now lately I'm up to something

Give me credit when I work, and deny it when it ain't mine

You can run from all the problems, but never from father time

Opinions I would keep to myself, I let it fly

Only sometimes, only when I feel it's right, that's just something that I

Had a hard time getting into, but this storm is getting stronger

Arks of words, I hope they save you

The competition is much, I have to keep it honest

But I gotta treat 'em like lunch, just know that I'm rawest

Nigga that came up in the 6ix, you see me as the

Metro Baby that done shed all his doubt, I'm ready for it

Coulda swore they said it's over for us, isn't it funny?

Wipe 'em down until there's nothing but us, their nose is runny

Metro Baby really tryna punch up, I got the reach

Studied the game from internet and the streets, I came to teach

About that time someone took some charge, so here's the notice

The newest nigga that waste no time, the way he's rollin'

I'm starting small, but I'm plotting, this voice just might be golden

My nerves are present, but when you see me, you see the coldest

The voices of my ancestors telling me that I'm chosen

I dodge the peddlers, padding my thoughts with all their poison

They're telling me it's a wrap, this dream that I been hoardin'

Leaving the ground where it's at, take flight like Michael Jordan

I leave it all in the field, the flood is coming

Paid my dues and all the homage, now lately I'm up to something

Give me credit when I work, and deny it when it ain't mine

You can run from all the problems, but never from father time

Opinions I would keep to myself, I let it fly

Only sometimes, only when I feel it's right, that's just something that I

Had a hard time getting into, but this storm is getting stronger

Arks of words, I hope they save you