Now these are the days
Through these hard times
All the memories I made
I be all on my own
But everything I do
Got me thinking bout home
Gotta go get it
Every time I go in for me and my niggaz
I'm going for gold
Gotta keep going
Let my story be told
Chapter one
Yellowish tone looking half the sun
Seeing lil trace of an African
Waiting for my turn like a Padawan
I was waiting for my turn like a batter up
Really didn't feel that I had enough
Even in school I was acting up
Nigga had luggage like I'm packing up
And that school committee
Had few if any
Persons who knew what grew within me
I grew to envy
A newer city
Niggaz think slow while I'm moving swiftly
I knew the ending
Niggaz stay here just to die here
Left with fewer pennies
A crueler ending
Aye look
Wanna change mine to movie Disney
Put in work working on my craft
Long nights pen on the pad
Thinking bout this life I have
Lost my way on the lonely path
And I buckled up and I fastened in
Life's just a game of balancing
When I moved my way to the A
They want no smoke
My flow stayed my matches lit
I believe I achieve
And I can see that's life is full of no guarantees
So every day I take a leap of faith
Soon I see
That things are really all in my reach
Grab my dreams
Grab my dreams
Now these are the days
Through these hard times
All the memories I made
I be all on my own
But everything I do
Got me thinking bout home
Gotta go get it
Every time I go in for me and my niggaz
I'm going for gold
Gotta keep going
Let my story be told
Chapter two
Self made nigga with a attitude
Errbody on my attributes
Cuz I got more drive than avenues
Still mad at who
I laugh it through
Y'all shallow rooted
Y'all passion fruit
I'm passing through
Mad flashy too
All about that life in ya captions boo
I'm taking the names
For all the niggaz
Who loved to put dust on my name
I'm now not the same
Nigga who really let all of ya niggaz
Put doubt on my brain
More baggage than claims
Even Picasso was nothing
Until he realized he could paint
I dealt with the pain
Fueled me for training for tracks
And now I'm conducting the game
Choo choo
Golden now
Member those nights I was holding out
Just a young nigga from the olden town
Now I bring reign like I'm Colin Powell
I do it for my moms getting older now
Down with my niggaz that be rolling loud
Counting up the money
Watch it growing now
Never slowing down like an older crowd
I believe I achieve
And I can see that's life is full of no guarantees
So every day I take a leap of faith
Soon I see
That things are really all in my reach
Grab my dreams
Grab my dreams
Now these are the days
Through these hard times
All the memories I made
I be all on my own
But everything I do
Got me thinking bout home
Gotta go get it
Every time I go in for me and my niggaz
I'm going for gold
Gotta keep going
Let my story be told