SHINE

[Intro: IMYOUNGWORLD]
(Trilogy)
Yeah, uh
It's WORLD, uh

[Verse 1: IMYOUNGWORLD]
Fresh out the 'Ville, I had to still prove a lot to them
Coming from a family like my pops and 'em
I was always like the underdog, it took a lot to win
Couldn't even count how many niggas want the spot I'm in, yeah
I paint pictures with my pen, that's a point of view
To make you understand the life that I was born into
What's the angle that you taking? Yeah, I'm on to you
Look good but rough around the edges like a quarter do
This popping shit is dangerous, it come with being famous
I'm a figure for the young niggas, watch how I'm behaving
The friends you see me with the same dawgs that I came with
Don't ever let 'em come around me just to be hanging
You're taking me there, I smell the hate in the air
Faces is blue, and this money, watch how it hang in the air
They wanna get what I got, but they don't do what I do
Niggas be talking the most, only if you really knew
It's WORLD

[Chorus: IMYOUNGWORLD]
Every star don't shine at night
But I'm me, so I'm shining bright (I'm shining bright)
It was hard, but that's part of life
I stayed patient 'til the time was right
We gon' shine
We gon' shine forever, so we might as well shine together
We gon' shine
Long as we sticking together, I'll stay down 'til we get to the better (Uh, uh)

[Verse 2: IMYOUNGWORLD]
Yeah, like quarantine, I keep my proper distance, money talk, I'm politickin'
Mama thought that I would be a preacher or a politician
Niggas, they don't make it here coming from where I'm beginning
Thank God and everybody else that I forgot to mention
Speaking on my name, no, the family ain't playing that
This is what it is, I made the bed, I gotta lay in that
It's lonely at the top, and if it is, then I'm okay with that
Love from some people that ain't say it back
Try it now, I'm laying back
Suburban kids, so I guess I was conflicted
The hometown hero, but my family was the villains
I grew up with the shooters, was surrounded by the dealin'
And didn't even know it 'til my father was convicted
Was telling all my friends that he went away for business
'Cause I know they can't relate seeing daddy in the prison
I'm the first one that wasn't caught up in the system
I'm already half blind, this is messing up the vision

[Chorus: IMYOUNGWORLD & Benny the Butcher]
Every star don't shine at night
But I'm me, so I'm shining bright (I'm shining bright)
It was hard, but that's part of life
I stayed patient 'til the time was right
We gon' shine (Ah)
We gon' shine forever (Yeah), so we might as well shine together (We might as well)
We gon' shine (We gon' do this shit 'til the clock stop)
Long as we sticking together, I'll stay down 'til we get to the better

[Verse 3: Benny the Butcher & IMYOUNGWORLD]
Uh, I'm him, put that on everything
It's crazy, niggas won't let me breathe
Mama told me, "That crown get heavy, king"
'Fore they found me, flow was already mean
In my city, it's hard to stay grounded when you shining like LEDs
True rhyme cyphers, but who rhyme nicer?
I heard they hate on BSF because they crew not like us
I came up talking white like a true Don Imus
Then walked out with the booth on fire
I hate the way that they move
I had to dodge every angle they threw
With no advance or major label debut
God work in mysterious ways, I buy luxurious things
Thugging on Ledger, cover my chest in Amiri and chains
There's certain times you know you up there with the greats
I took a block and built a pyramid there in a day, yeah
Me and my man WORLD livin', shining so bright
And ten girls grabbing my nuts 'cause this a man's world, uh

[Chorus: IMYOUNGWORLD]
Every star don't shine at night
But I'm me, so I'm shining bright (I'm shining bright)
It was hard, but that's part of life
I stayed patient 'til the time was right
We gon' shine
We gon' shine forever, so we might as well shine together
We gon' shine
Long as we sticking together, I'll stay down 'til we get to the better