It’s a long, winding road

I’ve been over my limit

Pedal slammed to the floor

Tone growling like I hit a

B flat low

On a bass trombone

Rubber burns so long

There is smoke

Under wheels spinning

I don’t really do losses

Yeah

Can’t waste time. That’s too costly

Yeah

It’s why I’m on the move always

Hope to stand in pantheons of new bosses

Yeah

I’m from the woods where it’s simple

Yeah

If you’re not strong, they dismiss you

Yeah

So I had to leave my kin to kill it

But that went over your head like you’re a Frank Vincent Villain

Midwest is where I’m coming up

Stocky geek rap kid with some southern blood

Always thinking about the fam who got it from the mud

didn’t know any better, straight gutter, cuz

I do it cause they can’t, so I have to win

We were written off just for having blacker skin

So I hit the books, while they moved packages

Talk and they channel Harry Potter and catch the snitch

So to get my own

I said

Aite

I’ma head, head out

They all talk so low

Then I show up

And they’re like

Aite

I’m a head, head out

I used to run away

From who I was becoming

But I think back to those days

And I regret nothing

Now I see

Where the process leads

And it’s just starting

I know my mark

This my life don’t call it my dream

Yeah

I stand tall in my scene

Yeah

I just ball with my queen

Yeah

She’s so flawless so clean

Yeah

Finna smash, her drip is supreme

Yeah

Finna Smash, I’m finna pick Link

Yeah

Love home but if I’d never left it

Couldn’t say what I said, cause I wouldn’t have met her

Y’all said I pandered, and the real was lacking

Didn’t take too long for me to kill the chatter

Now I’m looking at the lot of you like little glasses

Trembling. Semblance of Uncle Phil when mad at

Carlton

not being able to float

You are him

Fall in

When my flow can engulf

You all. Swim

Or try to save face cause your hope is lost

Plus tomatoes make the base of the dopest sauce

Sing

Had to get my own

I was like like

Aite

I’ma head, head out

Been working so long

They all gave up

They were like

Aite, I’m a head, head out

Had to get my own

I was like like

Aite

I’ma head, head out

Been working so long

They all gave up

They were like

Aite, I’m a head, head out

Look

I got tired of waiting for it

I was sick of being locked inside

Myself because I was afraid of going

I said I’ma head out

Hopped a couple planes

To entertain

And hit some stages flowing

But what about the consequences

What does it mean to live a dream and not have a pot to piss in

Suspend your needs and big degrees and hope that the odds are in your

Favor, to find out later, savings are vaporizing quickly

Maybe you should’ve waited. Taking the safety out your vision

Places you in a state where hatred of plays you’re trying to win at

Phases you out of making changes of ways that block you into

Boxes

The Rock Says

Don’t talk. know your roll

Folks try to hit you with the odds that’s a low blow

Then you succeed and then they wanna Cher like Bono

Plus we don’t trust the odds. We don’t care. Word to Solo

And before you laugh at what that cheesiness might do to me

I should point out that if I had not done it on a Shawn beat

y’all would probably tell me that I missed an opportunity

Like your opinions aren’t just ammunition and food to me

Two years ago I was terrified I could perish

Trying to make realities of daydreams I would cherish

Midway

Through the MBA

Having night terrors

Of leaving a future kid and wife. Careless

Of me how I’d have equity rocking a couple mil in the bank

But with rapper passions starting to rumble, still in my tank

40s with a devil on my shoulder filling my cra

Nium with midlife crisis mumbo jumbo building my angst

I remember waking up in a cold sweat

Thinking it was real, then seeing I was in my own bed

Lady real excited cause the kid was bout to graduate

Finally end up getting paid

Put some things on youtube

Y’all said I was acting fake

Pandering messages

From a content marketing project that landed me everything

Fast forward few years

And I am facing my fears

Plus got a dope job that’s actually getting me

C suite at my shows

The whole company knows

Bumped the logo with Ran when we played Anime Expo

But it was madness trying to balance with the rapid growth

They’re 100% + year over year. Fortune 100 deals making news across the globe

And I was getting session work and playing on the road

I wasn’t sleeping started making mistakes at both

Mistakes at the job and forgetting licks on trombone

My manager suggested I consider my momentum

Cause he thought I’d be successful that was something he was sensing

I decided he was right. It was a move I had predicted

Every night I had to fight to keep my mood from badly shifting

To not caring anything about anything that could differ

From activities that work and passion gifted

Plus my lady had my back. I listen to her cuz she’s brilliant

And you know the kid is all about that good brain

She covers all the bases, keeps me good mane

Had to whip out of there like I was gripping wood grain

They threw a bunch of parties for me

that was a good thang

I remember when me and the CEO shook hands

He told me that the timing in my life was the best now

Keep up with the network. I’ll never forget how

Those words made me feel. I won’t be a let down

To those who believed. So I said

“Aite…I’ma head out”