HICKORY DICKORY

30, you a motherfuckin' fool nigga

I look at the stars

They asking me what do I see (they asking me what do I see)

I noticed that lately

All them constellations been looking like me (they been looking like me)

Inspired to shine, nigga (inspired to shine)

Inspired to dream (inspired to dream)

I think of my life and I feel

That I may be as good as I seem (I may be as good as I seem)

Coming up

I dreamt of the checks I'd be running up

I sat on my bed writing lyrics to songs

I would practice 'em all, but it wasn't enough

I wanna perform, I want a crowd

Singing it back to me, stadium loud

Homies in front, turning up, getting down

They gone off the liquor, they drunkеn and proud

The energy hit whеn the lights on

That energy when it's my song

I'm starting to think like a mogul

I'm starting to feel like an icon

'Cause I ain't the same and I know it

But I got the heart of a poet

That money is good, but it's new here

I'm trying so hard not to blow it

'Cause all of my friends walk around and they icy

Pricy, but when it come to me

I prefer just a tee and some Nikes

Fight me, I might be

Running from changes, I like how it is

Easy to covet the life that I live

Still ain't got used to the sight from the crib

I knew I would have it when I was a kid

At moments the nights would be dark

Won't hold you, the journey was long (long)

Through all of the bullshit

Imagine a younger me singing a song

Like: Hickory dickory

My clock has been ticking to victory

I don't have a fear in the world

Whenever it's time I know they'll be listening

Hickory dickory dock

This shit a bippity bop

If I want these niggas to think

Then I know that gotta get niggas to rock

Gotta go harder with every drop

I'll be remembered like Biggie and Pac

That be the reason I stay on my grind

I ain't wasting no time when I'm racing the clock, yeah

Hickory dickory dock

This shit a bippity bop

If I can see them as a link

Then I know that I gotta behave as the watch

Crank that shit up if only by a notch

Master the art and then give em a swatch

Put everything that I got on the line

I ain't wasting no time 'cause I'm racing the clock, yeah

I'm a star now

Them visions don't feel very far now

My parents was stressing shit, worry no more

'Cause your girl got a job now

And she can afford an apartment

And soon she gon' push it to start it

And everyone know who she is

When she leave the crib, she not getting carded

And that ain't from college, nah

That shit is all by the wonderful work of her hands

And maybe the prayers y'all sent up at midnight

When y'all ain't know if I could see out my plan

But mama, I made it

And daddy, I'm faded

It's how I stay grounded

'Cause bitch, I'm elated, yeah

Now all of my messages full

Of these niggas who say we related

I never met none of 'em

Why would I make out a check to 'em?

Listen, I know how that sound and it might have been different

If I grew up next to 'em

We been so distant, they'd question me

If found out how to send out a text to 'em

It was just me with my head down, eyes red

Barely slept in my bed

Fourteen hour bus rides

Windows pillowed my head

I knew it was coming, yeah

So I never stopped running

I'm watching the lights going by

I sat on that bus, I was humming, yeah

Hickory dickory dock

This shit a bippity bop

If I want these niggas to think

Then I know that gotta get niggas to rock

Gotta go harder with every drop

I'll be remembered like Biggie and Pac

That be the reason I stay on my grind

I ain't wasting no time when I'm racing the clock, yeah

Hickory dickory dock

This shit a bippity bop

If I can see them as a link

Then I know that I gotta behave as the watch

Crank that shit up if only by a notch

Master the art and then give em a swatch

Put everything that I got on the line

I ain't wasting no time 'cause I'm racing the clock, yeah