My Ingredients (Radio Edit) Lyrics

I got a mindset in the clouds

Doing traffic patterns

I used to wonder

How I would do it

Or make it happen

How I could be successful

Wit all my flaws

I use mistakes as a diving board

To jump s*** off

Underdog when I won the title

Didn't have enough

I spun the block

Didn't see my efforts

Ain't adding up

Did calculations

Equation

Still wouldn't balance right

The other side looking greener

Like they water spiked

With fertilizer the sprinklers come on

Like clockwork

The time is right

At least twice

Even if yo clock broke

You sink or swim

It's unacceptable just to stay afloat

This time around

I'm watching harder

Than movie cameras

Used what I learned through the years

Like graduates from Stanford

Only for that check

Can we talk

Tevin Campbell

When I had Lil Dan

My efforts were really misguided

Like um on a plane getting drunk

And I'm the pilot

When I had e-fly

I was still on the wrong road

Thought I could make it with no directions

In the Snow

That's like saying

You going but don't know where to go

Realistic behavior shifted my balance up

Ingredients are my logic

Planning

A pinch of luck

Execution is crucial

Before I mix it up

The fruits of all my labor

Ding

Pick it up

I had gasoline drawers on

With no fire

Ella arrived on this earth

And she brought a lighter

The passion that I pursued

For all these many years

Couldn't feed my kids

Change they diapers

Or wipe they tears

The pot was bubbling

I bit off way more than I could chew

And my ingredients looking at me

Like what to do

Its time to eat

And I ain't have a fork

Or a spoon

So lets regroup players

Everyone to the huddle

Spirit gone run the ball

Cause I know he ain't gone fumble

Body just hand it off

Yeen even gotta block for em

Just run the play like i told ya

Cause god gone block

A lot for us

Future don't stop for us

Kids grow up before you know it

At this point mine will tell you

That he do a lot for us

Even though the kitchen was hot

I stayed to cook the meals

Pick em up from school

And put money on the bills

Help em with they homework

And clean up all they spills

Kiss they little scratches

And put on band-aids

Cause they the best things d's d's

Ever made