A Tribe Called Quest - _Like It Like That_ Instrumental

Was trying hard to do this right 
Realized that nothings right 
If you don’t wanna find yourself 
Then what’s the point to life 

Come on 
Come on
At least you gotta try

Come on 
Come on
You gotta make it right 

And lately it’s been crazy
I’ve been all by myself
I’ve never felt so alone
No i'm not calling for help
I’m just expressing my thoughts
Cuz in these thoughts I get lost
See you later alligator,
I ain’t talking Lacoste 

But,

Oh my god 
Oh my god
Make sure they remember you
Before it’s said and done yea

You a star
You’ll go far
Once I found this rap shit,
Knew I’d never give it up like

(ha)

Oh my god 
Oh my god
They all gone remember you
Before it’s said and done yeah

(ha)

You a star
You’ll go far
Fell into this rap shit 
And I’ll never give it up 

Imma dream big,
Shoot for the stars
But I'll land on the moon 
I got the world in my palms
Yea that shits mine to consume 
Imma drop a bomb on you fools
Yea I’m hardworking,
Determined,
So I know I’ll never lose 
And I know I’ll never be
Workin a job I don’t want
Because I get what I want
I do this shit just for fun
So funny how that works out
I swear I’m calling it now
That you gone be just where you wanna be 
Trust me it’ll all work out 

It’ll all work out
Trust me It’ll all work out

This a letter to myself
This a letter to myself 

Take some time to concentrate
And please don’t contemplate 
About the things that’s goin on
I know that you gone find your way 
I honestly 
Understand how hard it is
But it’d be harder to quit
Cuz all the work You put in
Wouldn’t be worth anything 

Haven’t you learned anything 
I know you’ve learned many things 
How bout you put em to use
How bout you put on your shoes 
Walk out and do what you do
That’s why they don’t fuck with you 
Cuz they don’t move how you move 

But 
I hate college 
I can’t stand what it’s doing to me
You want knowledge,
Then understand that truthfully 
This music shit the root of me
And honestly
I do not usually do this
But it’s so hard to get through this
So I just had to pursue it 

I jot my thoughts in my notebook
Writing bout things I can’t cope with 
I hope that no one approach it
And if you pick it up close it 
All Of these doors gonna open
All of your work will be noticed 

Keep goin 

I stay Workin in shadows 
But one day I’ll be the spotlight 
I swear my life I foreshadowed
That’s how I know this shit all mine 
But This game is just like a battle
So please get ready, I’m not lying
I know you're destined for this
But are you ready for this?

Yes

So work smarter
And work harder
You’ll go farther 
take down that wall you built 
Be yourself,
With no armor
Want no part of
No drama
No nonsense
Don’t get involved 
If you do not know the Consequence 

Matter fact
Don’t speak at all
Take my mask off
No facade
All my problems 
Unresolved
I just wanna block them off
But I can never block my thoughts 
Always thinking it’s my fault 
Leap of faith,
No fear involved 
Out here 
Screaming oh my god 

Oh my god 
Oh my god
They all gone remember you
Before it’s said and done yeah

You a star
You’ll go far
Once I found this rap shit
Knew I'd never give it up like

Oh my god 
Oh my god
They all gone remember you
Before it’s said and done yeah

LETTER 2 MYSELF

Give me support,
I need it for sure
Thought it made me better,
Then why does it still hurt

And why am I stuck in my head,
Don't wanna get out of bed
Drunk texts, I hit send,
Messages left on read
Had some times where I wished I was dead
But I know that this life, it can't end
Came a long way from cartoons and Ben10
And looking for monsters that's under my bed
Damn,

I got so many problems
Don't know how I will solve them
Don't think I'll see tomorrow
Honestly, I can't say for sure

But I am so bipolar
And I am never sober
Sim, why you such a loner
Cause I cannot take anymore

I got post-traumatic stress
From all these feelings I compress,
I'm constantly stuck in my head

And I don't even understand why they plotting on the kid
Yeah, I can't let them in
Cause if I let them in,
then it's gone haunt me

Yeah I got PTSD,
I got ADHD
You could call me crazy
But I don't understand why they hating on me
And I don't understand why they labeling me
Honestly, they're just enabling me
To break out this box and to set myself free
Started this shit just by rapping on beats
The top isn't that far from me
The top isn't that hard to reach

If you believe it, then you could achieve
Anything in this world, life is a dream
I promise you, if you go put in the work
Then you gonna get everything that you deserve
I know I ain't perfect, but lately been working
The outside I smile, but inside I'm hurting
It's taking a while, but I'm so determined
I know I'ma get it, I know it for certain

But I think that it's time that I open the curtain
To show the real me, not just a version
All you gone see, that I'm still a person
Way deep beneath the surface
So put on your seatbelts, get ready, I'm coming
Life is a race and I think I'm gone run it
It's not who I am, but it's who I'm becoming
I got some problems, but who doesn't

I got so many problems,
Don't know how I will solve them
Don't think I'll see tomorrow
Honestly, I can't say for sure
But I am so bipolar
And I am never sober
Sim, why you such a loner
(Loner)

I got post-traumatic stress from all these feelings I compress,
I'm constantly stuck in my head
And I don't even understand why they plotting on a kid
Yeah, I can't let them in,
Cause if I let them in, then it's gone haunt me

(I got post-traumatic stress from all these feelings I compress,
I'm constantly stuck in my head
And I don't even understand why they plotting on a kid
Yeah, I can't let them in,
Cause if I let them in, then it's gone haunt me)

PTSD

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I’m Dru! & COLLAB - Flip the Spark (ft. Karri)

I question if it’s me or if it’s just my intuition
I been off my meds the doctor said to take prescriptions
But if I take this medication
Then this times forever wasted
They keep sayin it’ll fix me
But the problems it’s created
Weighing heavily on me
And I don’t think that I could take it
I don’t understand it 
we are all what god created
And if this is how i'm made to be
Then why can’t I maintain to be
The same one who was graciously 
Gifted with this curse 

Imma keep on writing songs until my fingers hurt 
Imma keep on goin till I’m 10 feet in the dirt
Swear that you won’t see me stop Until I leave this earth 

And when I do
Every word will be confirmed
There's no need for concerns
I told em it's my turn
I told em imma learn
From everything that I've done
Lord knows I've got some problems 

But I don’t need a pill to reach a peak in elevation
Try to seek the beast inside, but I can’t seem to find more patience
Every time that you arrive,
the thoughts inside,
I cannot shake em 
Tried to find the inner me
I Think that I misplaced him 

I can’t go back
It’s in the past 
What’s done is done 
But it’s never over 
Come Take my hand 
Know this pain won’t last 
Why is life so hard 
It’s called getting older 

No this pain won’t last 
It’ll be okay
It’s a whole new world
Each and every day 
This shit don’t feel real
This shit don’t feel right 
Kept my thoughts concealed 
Feels like I’ve lost my mind 

This shit don’t feel right

Feels like I lost my mind 

Lost my mind

This shit don't feel right 

Don't feel right 

This shit don't feel right
Feels like I lost my mind
And I'm lost inside
I said I’m fine, I lied 
Cuz I’m still Tryna figure it out
Hard to pick my self up out the dirt in a drought

And I
Don't know what's wrong with me 

And I 
Don't know what's going on with me 

But I'm
Trying hard to prove to myself

That this will work out
It'll be okay

It's okay 


I can’t go back
It’s in the past 
What’s done is done 
But it’s never over 
Come Take my hand 
Know this pain won’t last 
Why is life so hard 
It’s called getting older

WHAT'S DONE IS DONE

In this world we’re all just passengers
Passing through the passiveness 
It’s past the point of planet earth
 
Interplanetary flights to mars
rather go to Saturn first 

Some people think I’m schizophrenic
some think I got asperger's 

Cuz I ain’t even human
Imma matador 

But I ain’t a man of war

dodgin my Opponents,
They’re just challengers

Never lookin in the rear view 
checkin my parameters

Panoramic view 
Just for the aperture 

People try too hard
It makes them look like Amateurs 

Day by day the hopeless souls is
crossing time off of their calendars

I need a balance first

Cuz in this life, we never know what’s next

With all its rapid turns 

We hoping We don’t crash and burn 

But Someone call the early bird
Cuz imma Open up a can of worms 

And let em infiltrate your space

This is something that I went and got 
So it’s just something that you cannot take away

Smoke my pain away and maybe then 
I’ll fade away 
And make a way
For greater days
I told myself that I would be the one to pave the way
By rapping over snares and hats and 808s
Ill make the sky a navy blue 
And take away the grey
Imma A Solider in the field, 
And I’m baller in the game
It’s just my way of saying 

In this world we’re all just passengers
Passing through the passiveness 
It’s past the point of planet earth
 
Interplanetary flights to mars
rather go to Saturn first 

Some people think I’m schizophrenic
some think I got asperger's 

Uhh…

I don’t needa stick to one thing man
I could pick and choose

For example
I could sample 
A classic to put you in the mood
Have em dancing out their shoes
I keep prancing in the booth 
I don’t do this shit for views
Talking to myself 
Like what I gotta do

To make em feel me 
Writing verses everyday 
Cuz this shit what fulfills me

A hit maker 
A risk taker
A big player
Made the decision to kill this shit 
No It’s not fair 

I Smoke vapor
And get paper,
A playmaker

I’m more like jalen Brunson
And y’all just some Ron bakers 

This business cut throat
But it only takes one flow 
To get a couple eyes up on ya,
Last year I did no shows 

But this year I’ve been rising up 
Cuz when you starting from the bottom
There ain’t no where else to go 

That’s why I’m on the road
They tried to close the door
Count me out and tell me there’s no room to grow
But Feels like I’m already pro 

But either way…

In this world we’re all just passengers
Passing through the passiveness 
It’s past the point of planet earth
 
Interplanetary flights to mars
rather go to Saturn first 

Some people think I’m schizophrenic
some think I got asperger's

EARLY BIRD FREESTYLE

(Heavy breathing)
Hello...?
Anyone in there?

I write journals
to make sure I don't run in circles
But something must not be right
Because I'm stuck in circles

I keep on tossing and turning
Ain't got no time for excursions

I think my worlds slowly burning
And I'm sure of it

My head is underwater
And I am slowly Submerging

I don't know what is occurring
I thought that I would be nervous

But I'm not
And I can't be
If I wanna go

Where I'm destined to be
Somewhere god only knows


It's crazy one day you're broke
And then the next day you're famous
And then they blow up your phone
Saying congratulations

And how's it feel now that you're finally made it
It's crazy I was here from way back when we used to play ball on the pavement
Stuck to my gut,
you could do anything if you imagine it
I'm tougher than tough,
built through the pain of my complex and challenges
It's never enough,
whenever I try I get knocked on my back again
But I know that nothing happens by accident
Guess I was lonely and that was the catalyst

Ooohhh
Ahhhhh

Oooohhh
Ahhhhh

Oooohhh
Ahhhhh

STUCK IN CIRCLES

It ain’t about cars or the clothes that the money brings 
Cuz once you gettin money, 
Swear you’re life will never be the same 
Only thing I need is to be heard
Let me fucking sing
I just wanna rule the world 
I want everything 

It’s bigger than business
No minumum wage
It ain’t about money
Or who’s getting paid 

It’s love for the music 
And that why I do it
So don’t get it twisted
Yea This my escape 

I pray
To make a wave
You pray the same but nothings changed
Go through this Pain like every day
Don’t know how much more I could take 
Cuz at this rate, 
I’m gonna cave
But I know that you Hoping you won’t see the day 
That I blow up in your face
Because then you’ll be ashamed
Matter of fact you gone hate it
I dumb it down just for you to equate it
That I am different no we ain’t the same bitch 
I’m in the stu 
I been here for 3 days and 
I don’t see a stop in sight

In a time of the dark, imma drop of light 
Hit it out of the park like piazza, mike 
And they all gone clap When I grab mic 
Imma take my chance, Imma roll the dice

Swear that this time 
Imma do it right 
get ya glasses and then dim the lights 
Cuz you thought I was finished 
As god as my witness 
this just the beginning
And I’m never quitting 



Cuz It ain’t about cars or the clothes 
That the money brings 

once you gettin money swear you’re life will never be the same 

Only thing I need is to be heard
Let me fucking sing

I just wanna rule the world 
I want everything 

It ain't about the cars
Or the clothes
Or the hoes 
What's a fork in the road
if theres no where to go 

Ain't about the ones who be fake
Had to push them away 
To make some room for myself

But It’s crazy the same people I used to fuck with the same ones that always be doubting me now 
I remember back in high school, thought I was a misfit, didn’t think that I fit in the crowd 
Now I realized that it’s good to stand out 
Was stuck in a box so I had to break out 
Didn’t know myself, still don’t know myself
But these People think I figured it out
Calling out for help, didn’t get no help,
Yea I did this shit all by myself 
Cuz when I fall, I get back on my heals
I ain’t a quitter, ill get it forreal 

It ain’t about cars or the clothes that the money brings 
Cuz once you gettin money, 
Swear you’re life will never be the same 
Only thing I need is to be heard
Let me fucking sing
I just wanna rule the world 
I want everything

I WANT EVERYTHING

Sitting by myself in this room 
Looking out the window 
Waiting for the flowers to bloom
Tryna run away from my thoughts,
I assume 
That you’re waiting for me
I ain’t waiting for you 
Don’t look confused
I am the 1 not the 2
And I was the one that was waiting on you
In the back of the house
When I couldn’t tie my shoes
Matter fact,
I couldn’t even move

Limbs were tied
No guns or knives
They’d start the fight
And then leave us 

Access denied
You can’t testify
That your side is right
So you leave yuh

And Everybody knows
This the way it goes
Stranded by myself 
fuck it,
I’ll do it alone

Overcome the stress 
So I could overthrow the throne

Imma be the best
And i don’t need no help at all

I could do it all by myself if I want to
By myself if I want to
By myself if I want to 

Imma do it all by myself if I want to
All by myself if I want to 

Imma do it all by myself if I want to
All by myself if I want to 

Late nights workin in the studio
I pull up to the party and I Uber home as usual

They tell me that I’m crazy,
Yea I know that I’m delusional 

But when they listen to my songs,
They know it’s indisputable
 
I did it all by myself
And I would do it again 

It ain’t like I dont want help
But no ones lending a hand


And for the people who are lending a hand
What’s the point if I could do this shit better than them 

They think i can’t 
But they ain’t even tryna take

The advice that I give,
This is not a game

Everyone’s asleep,
But I’m wide awake

Cuz I’m fuckin wit these drums, 
and these 808s

Yea I’m Tryna get it perfect,
That’ll never change

Tell the people in the back 
That we ain’t the same 

Cuz I do it by myself, there’s no need to hate
Yea I’ll do it by myself, there’s no need to hate 

I could do it all by myself if I want to
By myself if I want to
By myself if I want to 

Imma do it all by myself if I want to
All by myself if I want to 

Imma do it all by myself if I want to
All by myself if I want to 


All by myself if I want to
Imma do it all by myself if I want to
(By myself)

All by myself if I want to
Imma do it all by myself if I want to
(By myself)

All by myself if I want to
Imma do it all by myself if I want to
(By myself)

All by myself if I want to
Imma do it all by myself if I want to
(By myself)

By Myself

KID SIM

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