The third track on Jay Prince’s debut mixtape Mellow Vation features two parts: the first with a beach-like, calm beat, and the second with an otherworldly instrumental.
In the first part, Jay takes a chilled feel, before switching up the flow and rapping about his past in the second.
[Part 1]
[Intro]
Yeah, yeah
Ay Tom, I see you on this beat, man
Let's go
Uh, look
[Verse 1]
Homie, you already know me
Chilling with some OG's sucking seed
We don't mess around with chicks
Something I ain't even into
These dudes asking when their beat's due
Working hard in the studio like "I ain't seen you"
Tryna stack high up in the sky
While these brothers getting higher than the sky
We be high up in the sky to the next show
Where we going? Toronto
Sipping something different, chilling like a villain
I ain't even finished
I've always been an outcast, so I will never fit in
You can ask Mondrae, I ain't touched 3K
I'm just tryna bring it back, shouts to my DJ
The sun's out, I'm just vibing
Surprising you niggas with rhymes
That be tighter than the snare to the beat
I'm bringing the heat, can't be defeated
I mean it, it seems to me
These brothers are weak when they speak on a beat
[Chorus]
Just vibe with it, just vibe with it
Yeah, we can do it all
Just vibe with it, just vibe with it
Yeah, we can do it all
Just vibe with it, just vibe with it
Yeah, we can do it all from here
Yeah, we can do it all from here
Yeah, we can do it all from here
[Verse 2]
I deserve it, working, searching and lurking
My lyrics served on a platter of work
I work these rappers out in a verse
You heard it first, at least first a nigga would die for hoe
Won't see me going down the same road, hell no
Make it rain hailstones, I ain't even balling
I give you a portion of thoughts
Instead of telling you I'm pushing a Porsche
But that's clarity
Are you mad because I told you my reality?
I can say I had a bad bitch, nine chains
Black Range, smoke weed, get high
Pop bottles, party every night
But that's not me
Ways to balance it, to make it happen
Imagine a canvas of madness
I'm a black man standing
I ain't pampered by the ratchet
And you would try to buy the madness
In fact, I'm happy that it happened
[Chorus]
Just vibe with it, just vibe with it
Yeah, we can do it all
Just vibe with it, just vibe with it
Yeah, we can do it all
Just vibe with it, just vibe with it
Yeah, we can do it all from here
Yeah, we can do it all from here
Yeah, we can do it all from here
[Bridge]
We can do it all from here
We can do it all from here
We can do it all from here
Chilling like a villain, tell you something different
Me and my niggas
Yeah, yeah
[Part 2]
[Verse]
I never used to think about life like this
When I was young, my momma told me I was gifted
So I gotta live this, high up, to another level
Tell me what I can't be, tell me what I can't do
I been through shit, seen shit that I wasn't meant to
See mom crying on the stairs, right next to me
Tell her "calm down, we gon' make it out this joint
Gonna live a better life, when I reach that point
I'ma tell you how my life is"
Yo, I'ma show you how this rap shit goes
I'ma tell you how it feels to be going down a righteous road
When a nigga's round you, wanna see you fall
That's a foolish move, tell me, who you fooling?
Ooh, accuse you too, see, a brudda like me
Make it off them streets, tryna live a better life
Tryna be what I be, be, be, be
Yeah
[Outro]
Tryna be what I be
Tryna be what I be
Tryna be what I be
Tryna be what I be
Tryna be what I be
Tryna be what I be
All From Here was written by Jay Prince.
All From Here was produced by Tom Misch.
Jay Prince released All From Here on Mon Nov 18 2013.