Trade It All

Uh, here's something I'd like to know

Would you trade it all? Would you put a price on your soul?

Answer that - you more about the outcome or the income?

Would you give up your dreams to feel like you're living in one?

Faced with decisions, would you ignore intuition?

Trade in whatever drives you for keys to an ignition?

Or would you go on like your life fine?

It's funny how a moment'll change your lifetime

Yeah, would I be held as a villain

If I never helped with feelings? Change to sell a million?

Yeah, wonder what these fans'll say to me

Still'll garner some bravery, money never dictated me

Cause my morals for cash just ain't a trade to me

Respect is important, niggas know not to play with me

It's not a void to fill, it's no vacancy

Take it all, it's no taking me

I'm a man

You always said I wouldn't be so much in my way

I've seen it all through these years, it's been give and take

They thought I'd break, but to trade it all is no trade at all

The ultimate contradiction

What started as a hobby now an honest way of living

Which took me to a genius from a pompous with a vision

Could do a dramatisation on the drama I've been given

Everybody says that, mine was kind of different

So every composition is just a calm my in prison

Armed and on a mission, strapped and only armed with my confliction

Never phased me, my only armor is my thick skin

Daddy talent, mama wisdom

Master of deceit, I cheated through the honor system

Quit my temporary job, earned more

Left school, learned more, rehab then burned more

Tales of b&e's, toast and extortion

How my son was almost an abortion, I've been close to a coffin

Wouldn't do over this rollercoaster

Know it played out like it was supposed to

I'm a man

You always said I wouldn't be so much in my way

I've seen it all through these years, it's been give and take

They thought I'd break, but to trade it all is no trade at all

Was froze over the phone

Waiting for you to change your tone while I was smoking

But that never happened like I was hoping

Waiting for you to laugh, at least tell me you was joking

But you just kept on with the conversation

I'm trying to be calm and patient while pacing around the room

Thoughts in my head are varied, that's you, grandpa and mike

It's very scary, it's cancer, hereditary

Dad, we had our little issues after "momma said"

Glad that's behind us so we can cherish the time instead

I got faith, I know the lord'll have a say

But you got a daughter on the way, what more do I gotta say?

You got twins to raise, they just beginning to age

Tell God with a hint of rage it was meant for you to stay

If I gotta explain what should be understood

Yo, I'd trade me in for you if I could it'll, we're all good

I'm a man

You always said I wouldn't be so much in my way

I've seen it all through these years, it's been give and take

They thought I'd break, but to trade it all is no trade at all