Determination

[Hook Stephen Smith]

God I been guilty I don’t know how you forgive me
Lusting for the glory and my face across the TV
I don’t pray enough now and my family never see me
Show me how take care of me loved ones cause they need me

[Verse 1 - Stephen Smith]

Determination over desperation don’t come at once you got to have some patience
Day to day I spent night to night writing line to line I’m so tired of waiting
My ex girl was too high maintenance
New girl she a dominatrix
Reality is so over rated
Took a red pill now I’m in the matrix
Life is a feeling process
Progress only comes when you fail to success
Ah yes, I was stressed out
CSN drop out
When you got this drive, got to take a different route
Everything different now
Thinking bout the past now
Wouldn’t change one thing, look at how I turned out
Baby I’m the man now
Here to bring the bacon
I’m just saying
I can get it if you want it
I ain’t got a Benz yet, but I’m working on it
I can work your body out tell me how you want it
Even if we got money, we ain’t got to flaunt it
That’s so unimportant
I was so unhappy some nights I would damn near cry
Got a 9 to 5 but this ain’t right
I deserve more I only got one life
If I’m a do this shit, man I got to do it right
So I packed up my shit said goodbye to that job
Jasmine had fun but we wasn’t in love
Hope you ain't mad cause you knew what it was
Searching for god then I look up above
He throw the hands, then he throw me his love
You watching the clock but I do what it does
Look at his eyes
Every occasion you know he going rise
Every opponent you know he going fight
Turn up on niggas, and killing they hype
Lost in my darkness and pull out this light
Like a little shotgun make them demons run
I’m just having fun with it
And when it stop being fun I’ll be done with it
And like a bad ass kid you can come get it
Look at little Stephen named after the prophet
Money the motive but never the object
You can ignore but never going stop it
You never going stop it

[Hook - Stephen Smith]

God I been guilty I don’t know how you forgive me
Lusting for the glory and my face across the TV
I don’t pray enough now and my family never see me
Show me how take care of me loved ones cause they need me

[Verse 2 - Rockie Fresh]

I’m like where did all the love go
Why the game so cut throat
Nigga’s running out of luck though
See the top what we come for
What a pretty girl fuck for?
Man, not even a buck
Bitches just come through suck in truck
Bust, then I go get more money cause it’s bout to come up
Look, I was taking my time in this shit
Just trying to buy Jordan’s
This shit was getting boring
So then I bought whips
Then I bought cribs
Now I’m trying get my momma in this shit
Look I ain’t got no drama for the shit
No time only talk about the commas for this shit
And I’m going make that stack
If I spend too much we going get that back
That’s every time
No lying
Nigga I be on a plane flying
I was on jet
You on a jet ski
Trying to ride my wave but you still can't catch me
Own ice like a nigga Wayne Gretzky
Sliding, nigga’s already know we don’t stop for sirens
Still grinding, and it’s all about that perfect timing
I was eating prime rib in a steak house
I was thinking bout buying me a lake house
Took the long road, I ain’t do the safe route
Through the mud but the freshest how I came out
Now a nigga so fly get stuck if I stage dive
Understand this really took time
Nigga it is patience
Now you are witnessing pure greatness
Fuck with us

[Hook - Stephen Smith]

God I been guilty I don’t know how you forgive me
Lusting for the glory and my face across the TV
I don’t pray enough now and my family never see me
Show me how take care of me loved ones cause they need me

[Verse 3 - Rexx Life Raj]

Aye, I pull up in something they don’t know
That shimp outside on the low
When I walk I got the drip all on me cause my cup over flow
Why you always talking bout your money you should keep it on hush (Shhh)
People I know who be really balling don’t speak on it too much
Okay Dee in the clutch
All nigga’s could bank on me
Thankfully I made it through when no strain on me
Shine on you nigga’s that don’t see a chain on me
I don’t see a change on me no
(Umm) why they still hate on me
You see the trajectory
It might be a little too late homie
I got the city on my back like a jansport
Throw a new stamp in my passport
Might be first class when I transport
I ain’t switch on you nigga’s I transformed
Off a bean in Berlin
She grabbing my dick trying to get me to fuck on the dance floor
I been giving her game like your favorite professor when he stand in front of the blackboard
Black man hey
But I look white on my tax forms
Pen game finna add a plague to my platform
Shine on young nigga, shine on shine on
(Aye, yeah)

[Hook - Stephen Smith]

God I been guilty I don’t know how you forgive me
Lusting for the glory and my face across the TV
I don’t pray enough now and my family never see me
Show me how take care of me loved ones cause they need me

[Bridge - Stephen Smith]

Cause they need me
Cause they need me
Show me how to take care of my loved ones cause they need me
They need, they need

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[Break - Dana Smith voicemail]

Hey Steve it’s mom
Just returning your call
I was sleeping when you called
Alright bye bye