THE STAGE IS SET...

[Verse]
Only tellin' true stories, real life events
What you see is what you get, now do you get why I’m depressed?
Because I tell it like it is, I ain't sugarcoating shit
All this music is my therapy, the reason that I'll live
Forever, I communicate through art, it’s the window to my heart
No one thought I'd go this far, always known I was a star
They say “Dempsey, why you do that, you ain't had to go this hard”
I ain't droppin' bars, bitch, I set out to set the bar
Since a youngin, I've been playin' at a different level
Wired different, I'm just special, still ain’t rеached my full potential
All this talent comеs at a cost, demons that I wrestle
I’m a killer on these beats but I'm still sentimental
Check it out, mmm yeah, check me out
I’ve been up and I've been down, I've been north and I've been south
I done made it out the gutter, pussy, fuck you talkin’ ‘bout?
I'm a heavyweight, the greatest in the world, pound for pound, uh
Body rappers, nonchalant, spillin' blood, ménage à trois
I'ma pop, it won't be long, promise that my word is bond
Talks with God, we correspond, the world is mine, it's in my palms
Chasin' dreams until I'm gone, on track again, no longer lost
Fuck a break, right now I ain't got no time to waste
That hiatus that I went on last year was my worst mistake
But I guess I needed it, I had to fix my mental state
I almost took my life okay, I almost opened Heaven's gates
Thinkin' back, I was a different man then, that's me being candid
I felt so abandoned, alone and broken, damaged
I ain't even changed that much, I sorta just adapted
To everything that happened to me, this is chain reaction
I won't disappoint myself again, I'm goin' in
Born to win by any means, it's too late for me to quit
I can't focus on shit else, it's too hard for me to mix
I'm impossible to love but with this rap shit, I don't miss
Everything I been through made me stronger
In a world of my own, it's gets somber
Trapped in my mind, I can't help but wonder
That's one thing that I'm yet to conquer
Never been a motherfucker like me
This shit's off of the top I'm writing
And the flow stayed, I'm only rhymin'
Fuck a label, I'm never signing
Cuz I did this shit by my lonely
Double my cup and I'm sippin' it slowly
Uncontrollable, no one can hold me
Overtime I lost some homies
Couldn't believe it but they was all phonies, yeah
Loyalty's not what they showed me, yeah
All on their “up in they nose biz”, yeah
Ironic cuz they all below me, yeah
It's been a minute since I poured my spirit in this
I've been chasin' analytics, now I'm gettin' back to business
This is for my fans and critics, man, I'm puttin' on a clinic
Dawg, I'm way too hard to mimic, that's cuz when you're starved, you're driven
Give my all from start to finish, listen though, I'm far from finished
Came up from a dark beginning, numb to all the scars I live with
Fuck it, at all costs, I'm winning, can't nobody block my vision
Can't nobody stop my mission, head up in the stars, I'm spinnin'
Hold up, let me get up in my sad bag
Memories and flashbacks, never movin' past that
I'm psychopathic, problems burst out outta my brain, it's jam packed
Goin' down a rabbit hole, it's way too late to backtrack
Grew up fast, I never had a chance to be a kid
Old soul, fully grown, I don't know what I missed
All I'm left with are these tears, and all these scars up on my wrists
I have nightmares to this day of everything I ever did
I hurt people that I shouldn't have, the ones that I kept close to me
Burnt bridges that I can't get over cuz they're over me
No sorry I can say could fix shit, even in my poetry
But who am I to them? I guess I'm just another nobody
I bring in bad vibes, fantasizing suicide
Problematic, I'm so manic, I can't help but change my mind
All the time, I can't lie, everything is do or die
I try to wear a mask but I can't hide the pain behind my eyes
Yeah, and I ain't really all that spiritual
I'm realistic, real shit, I don't believe in miracles
To me, that's all satirical cuz all I know is tragedy
There's no prayers answered in my colorless reality
I ground in zero gravity, zero sense of normality
I gave up my morality, perusing immortality
Ain't runnin' outta battery, charged up, I'm movin' rapidly
I understand that no one could understand understanding me
Fuck it, I'm a lone wolf but this is in my apex
I ain't tryna make friends, I'm tryna get these pay checks
Y'all can keep on playin' checkers, I'ma keep on playin' chess
I'm waitin' on my moment, I'ma own it, yeah, the stage is set