Slippin' (Note to Self)

Said no to drugs Said no to alcohol Said no to school dropped out back in the fall I probably could have finished But I didn't I mean my heart just wasn't in it And if you ain't doing things with gusto Then you're in trouble Like uh oh Your love must show Don't be a dumbo And if you're mind is stuck inside the stucco Then maybe you should mix things up Like its gumbo and trust your gut so You can try to burst out of that bubble The sooner the better Suggest to do it on the double Cuz the faster you can figure out the puzzle The faster you'll succeed all right bucko Yo And in addition to your hustle It's gonna take a little bit of luck so Be patient And stay humble Cuz nothing great happens in a day It takes a couple But In the event that I forget What my goal is and what I define as success I wrote this To remind myself that In the event I go astray And need a compass so I can find my way I wrote this To remind myself that Nothing in life fulfills my soul Quite like music so Ima keep on making this shit because Nothing in life fulfills my soul Quite like music so Ima keep on making this shit I'm just a rap vocalist Flows like jazz soloists That's why when I applied I snagged the last opening To be the emcee of Apollo Bebop Get the crowd bouncing like Reeboks And keep hot like tea pots Mama said she likes the Jazz with the Hip Hop She got an accent that's just the way that she talks In this game thicker than the redwoods we got Goals to rise above and reach up to the treetops And see spots higher than where nosebleed seats watch That's why we come correct the second that the beat drops We love putting the work in Only fresh shit we serving Cuz all these so called top shelf rappers need to be restocked They only got the shelf life of like 4 days Career will die before faster than they'll ever die of old age Selling out is not an option No way Jose We in this for the long run don't care if it's a slow pace But In the event that I forget What my goal is and what I define as success I wrote this To remind myself that In the event I go astray And need a compass so I can find my way I wrote this To remind myself that Nothing in life fulfills my soul Quite like music so Ima keep on making this shit because Nothing in life fulfills my soul Quite like music so Ima keep on making this shit Yo To the next level we taking it taking it Cuz our lives depend on us making it making it So we gon' keep on making this making this here To the next level we taking it taking it Cuz our lives depend on us making it making it So we gon' keep on making this making this here