Be Great

They say follow your dreams, but what does that mean?

Cause dreams only come to a sleeper

Forget that, you need to wake up

Keep grinding instead, keep that in your head

Praying and hoping is not enough cause faith without works is dead

Time's what you make of it, no need to wait for it

Shut up get on your grind

Get up and be great

If I fail bro, that's all on me

You can't stop me cause I'll be great

You ain't gotta believe what I say

It don't matter cause I'll be great

Best bet's to get out of my way

Tunnel vision I can't be swayed

You can't stop be, cause I'll be great

Stop being envious of everybody that's around you

You're not poor cause they're rich

Realize this: It's not fair, get over it

If you spent as much time working on your craft as you did complaining, well..

You wouldn't have the time or energy to be worried about everybody else

If life is not in tact, complaining won't get that

A complete waste of your time

Let me talk to 'em

Why do you want to cry and complain?

Why in the Hell are you on sidelines? Get in the Game!

When it comes to my mind, it's all the way made

If you think you're outworking me, then you are insane

That's my attitude; stay in a battle mood

Fear no man longitude or latitude

Broke or well off.. seems that you had to choose

But I ain't mad it you, so beast it like an animal

Get up and be great

If I fail bro, that's all on me

You can't stop me cause I'll be great

You ain't gotta believe what I say

It don't matter cause I'll be great

Best bet's to get out of my way

Tunnel vision I can't be swayed

You can't stop be, cause I'll be great

Maybe you knew me back when I was

Flag waiving and gangbanging from yours to my hood

Driving my momma up a wall like it was all good

If it was fighting involved, didn't hesitate to fall through it

Maybe you knew me as YG Rippa

When me and J Dunn would beef on you just a little

But we knew we had to fiddle with, we were not happy innocents

Had the upper hand cause we were literate

Yet idiots would step up and get they dumb butts bodied on microphones

I earned my stripes cause I was nice, was hype when I was writing on the pad

But if I had to fight then I could get my Viking on

I'd supply the cake and J Dunn would slap the icing on

I just so happen to be rapping since the age of 10

Like a God given talent prolly back to praising him

Can't get pretend I'm new to this stuff cause I been doin' this bruh

Don't be a fool get ripped up, you're cruising for bruisings mister?

Wait, maybe you knew me back when I was grooving

Me and the gig squad put on for the Dallas boogie

And I had cameo up after cameo

The biggest one being the Teach me how to dougie video

Maybe you know me from college when I was running those track meets

And I was actually a decent enough athlete to break a couple school records

I'm proud of that joint

Came a long way from gangbanging up to that point

Maybe you know me from my YouTube

And all those vocal covers and music ventures I used to

Or, Maybe you know me talking politics

Talking ancap libertarianism, all of it

But last, maybe you know me from my old band

Not Leviathan, the Gods I left Fire From

Not acting like a higher form, to hold my punch I had to be

But now I'm in position to answer what you've been asking me

We parted ways cause I didn't think we had foundation laid

They wanted to tour just to do it, which was stupid , so

I was not about that and I wouldn't allow that

Cause I happen to grow up broke and I wasn't going back to that

And that's the facts, we left on good terms

Yea, but dang I would surely learn for the worse it took a turn

Cause the fools try to replace me with some dude that would favor me

I hate to be that guy but these lame babies shouldn't play me

And they didn't even try to hide it you and I know

The first song they tried to drop was a song that I wrote

I record it before I left and that was just a sin to me

They got some whack cat to try his hardest just to mimic me

Copy appearance to the mannerism

Still let em make it til I heard these weak misses were sneak dissing

Gotta a lotta balls in it but I will have no part of it

Face the fact, it's the opposite of what an artist is

You are factory made and you gotta go to grave with that bro

High side and act though, originality is what you lack so

Tell ya kids that all your career is based a piggy back though

Oh he mad cause they got signed and BackWordz didn't

Shut up fool you must be an idiot, oblivious

Don't make a fool out yourself cause you not real

Over the past year we done past like 5 deals

And now we in a situation that is helping me

We own our own publishing and this is still a self release

And BackWordz is a brand which was hard to get

We didn't sign a deal we were looking for a partnership

Now we gotta team and it's all business

I say if you with it, then you with it

The number of views can be at 20 million or a lot less

But we ain't sell our souls in the process I'll take that

I done said what I had to say

So let's get back to being great

You gotta get out there

You're running yourself into the ground

You gotta move on now and get up and get out

You can find your way some how

You gotta get out there

You're running yourself into the ground

You gotta move on now and get up and get out

You can find your way some how

You can find your way some how

You can find your way some how

Be great

Be great

Be great

Be great

Get up and be great

If I fail bro, that's all on me

You can't stop me cause I'll be great

You ain't gotta believe what I say

It don't matter cause I'll be great

Best bet's to get out of my way

Tunnel vision I can't be swayed

You can't stop be, cause I'll be great