GG x SHIGETO

Lyrics

[Intro] Yo [Verse 1] When I was a young teenager All I did was draw in my sketchbook, a textbook failure I went from school to school My parents broke up next, so went from house to house too My stepfather was abusive, my dad didn't know so I had to make excuses Help bring up my brother and my sister, this dude he was useless My mother she was beautiful but had a thing for losers Sorry to my siblings for talkin' 'bout your dad But I gotta get it off the chest bad I'm just trying to give some context from where I was at It's not that I was sad, I was just a little mad So the prospect of boardin' school sounded sorta cool Part of me felt I didn't have no more to lose I'm talkin' like it was all doom and gloom I had a good childhood, I was just confused So many are at fifteen years old As I was now in this boardin' house alone And at this age I used to wear matchin' tracksuits My shoes loose, my pants low like I had to Had a sketchbook full of graff, but my CD player Only had Green Day and that sorta crap So when this dude entered the room lookin' the same as me Knowin' hip hop from A to Jay-Z I was taken, and so began my education I never woulda known it would become my occupation Year ninety-nine I was in year nine The year I heard the rhymes that would change my life In the form of a compact disc And when a bomb track hit, my whole perspective changed Re-arrangin' every cell within this individual The words political, feelin' it was spiritual What the fuck is this imagery and audio? Righteous as hell, but still it wasn't corny though Caught me off-guard, I was hardly ready Like Rocksteady sendin' a machete into my belly That's when my whole fuckin' head had exploded The rap plus the beat equals double the dosage My troubles imploded, and sudden emotion Came rushing through my blood knockin' the chip off my shoulder [Chorus] Hip hop helped me out I'm never gonna let you down I won't ever forget I rap to pay back the debt, uh Hip hop helped me out I'm never gonna let you down I won't ever forget Hey yo, I rap to pay back the debt, it's like this [Verse 2] You may wonder what happened next Let me tell you it was somethin' that I never expected If you were payin' attention you may remember The dude that introduced me to rap that I mentioned Became best friends, then became enemies Then I get a call to tell me he'd been knocked off his feet By what? By a cab, what the fuck, where's he at? I'm tryna tell you now bro, he's dead I felt sick lost for words out of breath My old best friend dead was my first encounter with death This was the guy who taught me 'bout rap I'd only been a listener, now time to change that I put the pen to the pad And I vented my crap, to end all the sadness And in a way, yo, it kept me from madness And so, I kept on writin' this rap shit And now equipped for whatever came I had words like bullets in a clip in a chamber So even when I found out my stepfather Had laid his hands on the kids and my mother I knew not to get violent It would only make things worse, so I chose just to write it down Even if that shit was too heavy to put out It helps to write about every cloud And since then I've had a lot of shit happen So I sing my songs and I keep on rappin' The way most [?] come and help me through I hope this can be a help for you [Chorus] Hip hop helped me out I'm never gonna let you down I won't ever forget I rap to pay back the debt, uh Hip hop helped me out I'm never gonna let you down I won't ever forget Hey yo, I rap to pay back the debt, it's like this [Bridge] I was found by the sounds When I was down (Uh-huh) Now I'm lettin' it out (Let it out, let it out) At times in my life When I was blinded (You know the feelin', right?) You gave me that sight (True indeed)