[00:07.88]葛仲珊
[00:22.08]從黑膠起家
[00:22.66]I make music for a livin
[00:23.54]Work with what I'm given
[00:25.35]Never settin limits
[00:26.68]Representin for da women
[00:27.76]See they look at me and see
[00:28.82]Some kind of oddity or freak
[00:30.23]But what they really don't see
[00:31.38]Is I'm just tryin to be me
[00:32.75]Without the judgments, repugnance
[00:34.25]Just doing what I love and
[00:35.32]Not tryin to be a slave to the opinions of the public (nah)
[00:37.76]My whole life I've struggled to be free
[00:40.55]And now that I'm grown I could finally be me ya know?
[00:43.44]So nod your head back if ya feel this
[00:45.22]Real always recognize realness
[00:48.27]A lot of people dwell on your appearance
[00:50.98]But never know the struggles that you deal with
[00:53.56]From the bottom, rose to the top
[00:55.57]Cooked some hip hop in along with the pot
[00:57.95]Turned this raw stock into a meal
[01:00.55]Started from scratch like - Grandwizard Theo
[01:03.16]Yea we started from scratch
[01:04.49]Started from scratch
[01:05.64]Started from scratch
[01:06.95]Now look where we at
[01:08.21]Yea we started from scratch
[01:09.41]Started from scratch
[01:10.64]Started from scratch
[01:11.97]And we ain't never lookin back
[01:13.36]Whether past or in the present
[01:24.72]My style is independent
[01:25.84]Of anything that's trending
[01:27.25]Never-ending like a legend
[01:28.30]Got the recipe, my destiny's
[01:29.63]To give the world the best of me
[01:30.85]That's why these people I don't even know all invest in me
[01:32.64]In my own league, can't define me
[01:34.03]Rap, sing, and song-write in English and Chinese
[01:38.24]It's the valedictorian right here
[01:41.16]Always been first, that's why they call me a pioneer (ya know)
[01:45.02]Started from the bottom didn't know much
[01:46.25]Now I'm coppin cribs like a grown up
[01:49.02]See my face big on a tour bus
[01:51.74]Hittin every city that they show love
[01:54.12]What? Just doing what I do best
[01:56.56]Nah and we ain't following no rubric
[01:59.06]Pour my soul into the movement
[02:01.32]So even when I'm gone, still live thru the music
[02:03.86]Tell the DJ hit the repeat when they see me
[02:26.46]Neighborhood squad out bumpin my CD
[02:29.04]What a feelin, cuz none of it was easy
[02:31.53]Parents barely had enough dough to even feed me
[02:34.09]So I learned to grind hard from a young age
[02:36.84]Told myself I'd be star - one day
[02:39.43]You could see me on the news front page
[02:42.07]Cuz I refuse to live a life that's mundane
[02:44.57]Born and raised, NYC – Queens
[02:47.33]Where kings go to find a queen
[02:49.16]And dreams can turn into a million things
[02:51.55]But fame ain't nothing like it really seems
[02:53.98]Foreal, that's why I stay true and I don't do
[02:57.05]Anything that don't feed my soul food
[02:59.77]Follow in their shoes like a broke fool
[03:01.98]And now I get to let the world know what I know too