OUTCAST [Intro] Yeah... They told me I was too much. Too loud. Too different. Too fucked up. So I stopped trying to fit in. [Hook] I'm an outcast, I don't fit where they put me, Too much pain in my heart, too much fire in my bloodstream, They wanted me quiet, they wanted me underneath, Now I'm standing on the outside screaming, "Fuck what you think!" I'm an outcast, yeah, I learned how to stand alone, Built a kingdom from the pieces of a life that broke, If the door ain't open, I'ma kick it off the hinges, I was never made to fit in... I was made to be different. [Verse 1] I was always the kid with a head full of questions, Heart full of tension, mouth full of aggression, Everybody had an image of the person I'd become, But nobody could see what was happening underneath it. I learned early that acceptance came with conditions, "Be like us, talk like us, think like us, fit in," But I couldn't kill the parts of myself just to fit their description, So I chose isolation over living as a fiction. Now I'm independent, unapologetic, Every flaw got a function, every scar got a message, Every failure left a lesson, every loss left a weapon, Every time they counted me out, I counted every second. I don't need a clique to validate my existence, I don't need a room full of people just to prove I'm important, If I'm standing by myself, then I'm standing on principle, I'd rather be alone than surrounded by people pretending. [Pre-Hook] Maybe I'm different. Maybe I'm strange. Maybe the things that they hated Are the things that I made. [Hook] I'm an outcast, I don't fit where they put me, Too much pain in my heart, too much fire in my bloodstream, They wanted me quiet, they wanted me underneath, Now I'm standing on the outside screaming, "Fuck what you think!" I'm an outcast, yeah, I learned how to stand alone, Built a kingdom from the pieces of a life that broke, If the door ain't open, I'ma kick it off the hinges, I was never made to fit in... I was made to be different. [Verse 2] I turned rejection into direction, Isolation into introspection, Pain into progression, Fear into aggression. Now I'm dissecting every sentence, every second, every section, Turning thoughts into inventions, turning pressure into presence, If they label me excessive, then excessive is the message, 'Cause I spent my whole life being told I wasn't impressive. Fuck that. I know what I've survived. I know what I've sacrificed. I know how many nights I had to fight with my own mind. And I know what it feels like To look around and wonder Why everybody seems connected While you're standing underneath the thunder. But maybe I wasn't abandoned. Maybe I was being redirected. Maybe being misunderstood Was the price of being authentic. [Beat Switch] Now listen... I don't want your approval. I don't need your acceptance. I don't need your permission To become what I intended. You can keep your categories. Keep your little definitions. Keep the fucking expectations You projected on my image. I'm rap when I wanna rap. I'm rock when I wanna rage. I'm melody when I'm broken. I'm whatever fits the page. That's the whole fucking point. [Verse 3] I'm the outcast with an outlet, The oddball with a sound, The kid who felt invisible Who's making himself loud. I put everything I'm feeling In a microphone and let it breathe, If you hear yourself inside it, Then you're probably just like me. We were never really broken, We were built a little different, And the world keeps trying to flatten Every person with a vision. So I sharpened every edge They kept telling me to soften, Turned the rejection into records, Turned the loneliness to confidence. Now I'm looking at the people Who once told me I would fail, And I don't even feel revenge, I just hope they hear the tale. 'Cause I don't want them to regret me. I just want them to understand: Sometimes the person you reject Becomes the person you can't ignore. [Final Hook] I'm an outcast, I don't fit where they put me, Too much pain in my heart, too much fire in my bloodstream, They wanted me quiet, they wanted me underneath, Now I'm standing on the outside screaming, "Fuck what you think!" I'm an outcast, but I finally found my home, Not a place, not a person, just the music that I own, If the world won't make a space, I'll create it on my own, I was never made to fit in... I was made to be known. [Outro] To everybody who ever felt like they didn't belong... Good. Don't change yourself to fit the room. Change the room. PLATINUM! NO GENRE.
