Self Proclaimed 4

Don’t let nobody tell you who you are

I remember sleeping wishing on a shooting star

After practice overnight cleaning working hard

Coming up short, hoping one day I’d go far

I was young, dumb, broke, and I was still naive

I had failed so many times, but I still believed

That I would turn into that man everyone could see

Wouldn’t never let nobody tell him what he could achieve

I stayed focused, walked right on my path

I told my mom I was leaving and I couldn’t come back

Hopped out my feelings, quit my job, graduated, and laughed

Then went to Cali straight broke and hopped right in my bag

Now I’m standing here speaking giving all I am

Trying to show you that the change starts with one man

I ain’t lying 'cause I did so I know you can

So I'm here to help the world understand that

This is motivation

For every single chance you ain’t taken

Any rule that’s in your way, you better break it

Shut up, embrace it

The pain is a pre-requisite, without it how the fuck you think you ever gon’ make it

The sweat is your payment

Fuck an escalator, take the stairs to top right from the fucking basement

Your life is a statement

Leave a legacy and stop waiting

Get yo ass up today and start chasing

This that motivation

I’m hoping that this hits your soul

They’re just dreams till you sit down and you write your goals

I remember when they said I wasn’t built this strong

I bounced back like elastic and put myself on

Now I’m selling out these tickets to places I don’t know

Going to these places they said that I couldn’t go

Giving all my time to people at these shows

To spread this message and this music that I know brings hope

They feel it

I don’t gotta top a stupid chart or win a Grammy just to show that I’m the realest

I don’t need a co-sign from nobody if they ain’t said nothing by now, they pretending not to see it

Any odd I beat, negativity delete it

I don’t care about success, it’s the journey I'm fiending

If I say it, I mean it

Flow (floor) dirty, can’t clean it

Give a fuck about the past 'cause I R-I-P'd it

Now I’m 'bout to fucking hit the top

You fucking people can’t cancel me

Put me in box or fucking drive to me to insanity

I’m already crazy, one-fourth of me is all of you

So half of me is two of you, and four of you is all me

You’ll need a whole army if you thinking 'bout stopping me

And five lifetimes if you’re thinking you can copy me

I’ve beaten poverty, went to war and beat mediocrity

My life is mine, I’m molding that shit like I’m doing pottery

I’m not scared of failure, I embrace it and chase it

If there’s a one percent chance I can do it, I take it

I took the hate they all threw, sat down, and I ate it

Then took the motivation from it, turnt to one of the greatest

And now every time I drop I know I’m making a statement

Replacing every single person that you got on your playlist

I’m not a product of the system, that’s why no one can break it

I’m tryna change the whole game, man, fuck being famous, dawg

I’m self-proclaimed, and I ain't never changed

I rock the same clothes and still got the same chain

It’s a reminder when I hooped, and I would go and get my jersey

And those people didn’t even know my name

Well, now I know you see it!

They told me leave, I made a promise they would all feel it!

I couldn’t find the change, so I said I’ll be it!

So I hope that y’all know

This is Dax fucking self proclaimed 4

Go!

This is motivation

For every single chance you ain’t taken

Any rule that’s in your way, you better break it

Shut up, embrace it

The pain is a pre-requisite, without it how the fuck you think you ever gon’ make it

The sweat is your payment

Fuck an escalator, take the stairs to top right from the fucking basement

Your life is a statement

Leave a legacy and stop waiting

Get yo ass up today and start chasing

This that motivation