Intro to Exile

[Intro]
Tell me, are we gonna make it?
Tell me, just don't think I'm mad (100)
Tell me, it's time to save it
Tell me, just don't think I'm mad
Tell me, are we gonna make it?
Tell me, just don't think I'm mad
Yeah
Tell me, are we gonna make it?
Tell me, just don't think I'm mad
Yeah
Look

[Verse]
I promise I'm not another rapper who blows up, then disappears
I plan for more progression and growth in the coming years
My biggest fear is really exposing all of my fears
Ironically the more that I'm vulnerable people hear
Feel like I been a veteran even though this is new
I just acted like I knew who I was and what I could do
Maybe that's just how to good Lord blessed me to see the truth
Celebrities are really no different than me and you
I remember when I started DM'ing one of my heroes
Told me there's much more to streaming numbers than zeros
Taught me that I gotta be different then all my piers, so
I been controversial on mic's like Shapiro
Anyways, back to the music, I got a lot
I don't think that there's a way to prepare you for what I got
Just know I'm coming back and it's for that number one spot
And although things change, I still lean on the Rock
I know a lot of people that wish they were in my place
Only reason I'm here, that's unconditional grace
I know a lot of girls with makeup caked on their face
I wish I could tell 'em the Creator don't make mistakes
I've met a lot of fella's who drown their sorrows in bottles
The only thing that they really drowning out is tomorrow
This year I prolly won't win a Grammy preaching the Gospel
Sometimes the truth is a very difficult pill to swallow
You ever love somebody so much you start getting scared?
Afraid that when they need you the most that you won't be there
I'm not saying that I was emotionally unprepared
But there's a difference in being woke and being aware
I'm two minutes in and this album's already classic
By 2021 I'll be everything I imagined
I made my own lane and I like it without the traffic
Most of y'all still got it in park like Jurassic
At my challengers neck
So as I walk through this valley filled with shadows and death
I walk to the land that was promised to me
I may be lost as a man but my spirit is free
Welcome to Exile, we're the one's they left out
So walk with your chest out and never put your head down
And walk to the land that Yahweh promised to you
Never let a man kill your dreams, follow the truth
As I rally the troops
This is for my little brothers who been looking up to me ever since childhood youth
This the album I envisioned I would write when I was eight years old
It's crazy now vibing out in the booth
So let the credits roll 'cause this movie gon' be incredible
The story starts with a baby as the legend goes
Born into slavery so mama made a sacrifice
Float the boy down the river to find a better life
As fate would have it, that baby would reach the palace
Raised to raise a chalice, a prince and a man of valor
But he was unaware of his ancestral balance
The boy that was born a slave, to those slaves he became the master
One day he met the Master who spoke and told him, "I need you"
"To go back to your land, I chose you to free my people"
And though he felt like he was incapable of the task
He went from rags to riches and then riches to rags
I know you know the story of the Exodus
I am like a modern-day Moses with my penmanship
So I tell the world if you're feeling like you still in your chains
I promise you are not the only one that's feeling this way
I told the devil, "let me people go"
And what am I gon' do about it? I don't even know, yeah
I'm just a kid tryna find my way to Canaan
'Cause I'm tired of the lies and learning this world will never satisfy
Everything I have, I just built off hustle
From "why" to "why not" like a spin off Russell
Success is like a picture and we got all of the pieces
I just work words together like a jigsaw puzzle
I think I deaded this beat, no lawyers involved
My people follow me, they loyal no matter the cost
So as you follow me, prepare for toil and loss
This just the intro so lets not spoil it all, yeah
This just the intro so lets not spoil it all
Welcome to exile