Wrote My Way Out (Remix) [feat. Aloe Blacc]

I wrote my way out

Wrote everything down far as I could see

(Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it)

I wrote my way out

(Uh) They said I wouldn't amount to nothin'

Now I hold the head of he who could give the crown concussion

Fuck it, my new vice is stay off my old vices

Even though my new life is gon' cost me my old life

I wrote my way out of it, out of that hell hole

Shoes that don't even gotta be tied up, that's Velcro

My freedom sittin' on the other side of that cell door

The other side of the track where I'm from like railroads

My daddy slapped the shit out my momma in front of me

Couldn't do shit about it, at that time I was young and weak

All I could do was write a hunnid rhymes to a hunnid beats

'Bout what I plan to do in spite of what was done to me

I wrote my way out

Out of the po' house, accomplished my goals somehow

I never sold out

I'm a product of Motown

And now I'm in the public eye

So if you ever seen me solve a problem before

Just know before I solved the problem that the problem got wrote down

I wrote my way out

Wrote everything down far as I could see

(Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it)

I wrote my way out

Back to the store to get some bare essentials (Yeah)

Government cheese, a half a gallon milk and a pair of pencils (Uh)

I write my life inside this journal, hope they hear my info

And if you think this shit is dope then you should hear my intro

Yeah, I used to argue with my teachers and go back and forth (Yeah)

Told them one day I be famous and be back for more (Uh)

Maybe blow all of my bread to make it back on tour (Yeah)

And smash all the rich hoes that I never had before

I ain't had no paper, I was plottin' on 'em racks on racks (Whoo)

**** sneakin' in your crib with the black on black (Uh)

Just rumblin' through your shit, like let me have all dat

'Cause I was lost, now I'm back on track

Look, I ain't never been shit

And that's just me bein' real (Yeah)

I gotta call it how I see it, that's just me bein' trill (Uh)

And I ain't tryin' to take advice, just take it easy and chill

But if I gotta pay the price, fuck it, then leave me the bill

Joyner (Yeah)

I wrote my way out

Wrote everything down far as I could see

(Wait for it, wait for it, wait for it)

Picked up a pen and I wrote my way out

Yeah, I wrote words on a page

Symbols on a surface

Graffiti on the wall where my ancestors were purchased

I contemplate when the day I'm due to inherit the Earth is

I'm a subversive nation awaitin' the birth of his own

Where shots get thrown and spots get blown

And the convicts roam on the streets of a conflict zone

It's not his home

Adrenaline, testosterone

And pride keep the throne speakin' in a toxic tone

I feel like I wrote my way up out of a burnin' buildin'

To earnin' millions in this world of soldiers and civilians

I burn the oil every night as I return to brilliance

Under the gun, I'm under pressure

Under surveillance

But I'm spittin' the bigger picture

Sendin' the benediction

Some people write and live, what I'm pennin' is liter-ature

Paper begins to rip while I'm illustratin' the difference

And a fake out and a way to break out

I Shawshank the Great Escape route

Yeah

I wrote my way out

Oh, I was born in the eye of the storm

No lovin' arms to keep me warm

This hurricane in my brain is the burden I bear

I can do without, I'm here (I'm here)

'Cause I wrote my way out

(Way out)

(Way out)

(Way out)

(Way out)...