[00:05.76]Confidence is everything my *****[00:08.56]All you ****** riding waves[00:12.22]Feel me?[00:13.48]Yeah, yeah[00:15.00]I'm taking the fundamental approach when I focus in[00:17.84]Dealing with negative folks won't extend[00:19.83]Any ambition, I had to seek out a mission[00:21.73]I had to sleep in the kitchen when I was hopeless then[00:23.80]****** they try to boast I don't fit in[00:25.63]Rather than try to cope I wrote with pen[00:27.75]Told me to dumb it down,[00:28.81]The dumber you done it, the dummies 'll bump it[00:30.42]And money will come in until you drown[00:31.83]****** steady frown but I'm feasting[00:33.35]I don't need a boss or a label to police me[00:35.30]I don't need a foe or a loss to increase me[00:37.31]Did it for a year then told them to release me[00:39.27]That's just the bruises you take when you finally arrive[00:41.76]Scraping my checks man I had to survive[00:43.74]Suffocating, I suffered waiting,[00:45.19]I'm supplicating my income the **** stung, bottled my pride[00:47.81]Follow my conscience[00:48.76]I skipped all the nonsense[00:49.91]No cosign or sponsor I breathe[00:51.32]Hot on my nostrils for every apostle[00:53.18]That's 400 waiting to mock as you bleed[00:55.31]They don't understand then they wanna pass judgement[00:57.32]Rather have spam than a stand with substance[00:59.25]***** ****** salivating[01:00.51]And celebrating any celebrity[01:01.75]Selling them any shine cause they never had a spine[01:03.77]Me I got a big mouth, hear me out[01:05.76]In fear I would interfere, they steered to clear me out[01:07.75]Y'all been living in the big house, I'm here now[01:09.74]They burning the slave quarters[01:10.90]I'm turning the page forward[01:11.81]Raised in the projects, the process[01:13.65]Mind numbing, ****** is fine coming[01:15.69]To the game with a lot less[01:16.90]My guess, they cool with it so I tell them god bless[01:19.89]******* with anybody pretending[01:21.25]Is really probably the biggest landmine you can find (NO)[01:23.37]Trusting a person that you had thought[01:25.46]Was deserving is even worse when you gotta sever ties (GO)[01:27.71]To the extreme now for someone[01:29.30]Who seems down was sorta the theme now (SHOW)[01:31.19]Any emotion any devotion[01:32.71]That you hoped to receive is a steed[01:34.37]That you never shoulda rode[01:35.46]Selling you lies cause they fresh outta truth[01:37.20]Blaming the tide but that's not no excuse[01:39.15]How can you follow a wave[01:40.58]And then try to behave[01:41.67]Like you didn't look down on it too[01:43.35]****** will tell you that something is lame,[01:45.06]Wait for like three years and then do the same[01:47.24]I just continue in my lane[01:49.05]While keeping the mindframe of flaming[01:50.29]You ************* who act obtuse[01:52.05]All you ****** riding waves (WAVES)[01:56.69]Look to me to do the same (SAME)[02:00.79]Y'all too busy counting plays (COUNTIN')[02:05.12]I'm counting money ***** I'm paid[02:07.68]And I don't give a **** for anybody but few[02:09.27]I don't say much until they got in my view[02:11.30]I don't adhere to any notion of fear[02:13.28]I'm revered by the folks who really know what I do, so I flew[02:15.86]To a whole 'nother coast and made the most of the bad hand[02:18.21]I was dealt until I felt things slip[02:19.77]Thought I was ready but I was stalling my heart[02:21.63]Is heavy and fallin apart is petty the hate I caught a bevy[02:24.02]Let it be said if I shed blood it wasn't in vain,[02:26.21]Now they want me to tame myself[02:27.65]****** see the life I portray[02:29.31]As some sort of a game and for that had to blame myself[02:31.72]They see it all as so simple deceiving the tempo[02:34.21]There's nothing to prove[02:35.29]I just continue with my lane[02:36.78]While keeping the mindframe of flaming[02:38.05]You ************* who act obtuse[02:39.87]All you ****** riding waves (WAVES)[02:45.13]Look to me to do the same (SAME)[02:49.13]Y'all too busy counting plays (COUNTIN')[02:53.02]I'm counting money ***** I'm paid[02:56.52]