Textbook Lyrics
[Imogen Heap Sample]
[Verse 1]
Dreams of a team
Hoping to blow up and to be seen on a screen
Or am I just living
Through false allegations of whats on my television
Out working to be a witness of fortune in their position
Instead of paying attention in class or paying tuition
I'm sitting in my room, beats spinning, me spitting
To the illest instrumentals, hoping you feel this mental
Of a young black man whose passionate through the pencil
And nah, I ain't asking to be in issues of a Double XL
Or magazines that are issued, Even though that would be dope
I put my whole live on hold like rosaries, what I'm grasping is sentimental
I'm blasting right at your temple without me grabbing a pistol
Shooting lyrical bullets that may just happen to hit you
I'm sorry for contact, but I will not miss
I'm aiming for anybody who may feel like this, they like
[Course : Imogen Heap Sample]
[Ray Ellis Mumbles]
They like
They like what I'm saying
They like what I'm doing
They told me to drop my music
And keep ya head into school
I say no, so F a textbook, textbook
Yea, F it
[Verse 2]
I told my family I wasn't going to college after I graduated
I'll never forget the day that I looked in the saddest faces
And tired to explain the way that, I know I'm gone make it
But things started changing, and hearts started breaking
My parents got separated and they went they separate ways
Now my momma can't make a payment without getting section 8
And it hurts, cuz every time she opens up that budget plan
I'm reminded I got to make it through this crooked government
It's motivation cuz its takes me to a whole nother zone
Where the eyes are closed, and the skies don't move
And I'm standing in a room, Where I get to choose
To to speak in this microphone until these people eyes are open
To the sound of the truth, this is how I know I'm chosen
To be spitting in a booth and make a difference with my notions
Yea, now with that being said
What makes you little niggas think you'll ever get in my head saying
[Will Smith]
It's very simple, this is what I believe, and I'm willing to die for it. Period
The first step before anybody else in the world believes it, is you have to believe it
There's no reason to have a plan b because it distracts from plan a