[INTRO: DONTAYẼ | DISTORTED VOCALS] Yeah... Turn that shit up. I said what I said. You ain't gotta like it. But you gon' hear me. Listen. [HOOK: DONTAYẼ | MELODIC, AGGRESSIVE] Listen, I ain't gotta say it twice, I been paying for my dreams with a different kind of price. They was laughing at the vision, now they staring at the lights, Everybody got opinions, ain't nobody in my life. Listen, I got scars that I don't show, Got some people that I love, got some people I outgrow. If you wasn't in the rain, don't come dancing in the snow, I was building from the dirt, now the whole damn city know. Listen! You ain't hear me when I spoke! Listen! Now I'm standing through the smoke! Listen! I ain't breaking, I ain't broke! I got fire in my chest, every word I say is gold! [VERSE 1: DONTAYẼ | TRAP-SOUL RAP] I remember empty pockets, big plans in my head, Had to turn a little faith into a whole lot of bread. Everybody had advice, wasn't nobody who bled, Now they reaching for a piece of everything I done fed. I was talking to the ceiling, trying to silence my doubt, Had a war inside my spirit I could never talk about. Had to cut a couple ties, had to take a different route, Now the same ones throwing shade wanna see what I'm about. I don't need another lecture, I done learned from the pain, I done walked through situations that could drive a man insane. Put my heart into the music, put my soul inside the flame, If I ever said I love you, I ain't saying it for fame. Look me dead inside my eyes, tell me what you really see, Is it hunger? Is it anger? Is it everything in me? I got people counting on me, I got places I should be, So if you ain't bringing something, don't be bringing shit to me. [PRE-HOOK: DONTAYẼ | BUILDING MELODY] I kept it quiet, now the speakers make it known, Had to find myself when everybody left me on my own. You can judge me from a distance, you don't know what I have grown, When the truth comes through the bass, you gon' feel it in your bones. [HOOK: DONTAYẼ | BIGGER, LAYERED VOCALS] Listen, I ain't gotta say it twice, I been paying for my dreams with a different kind of price. They was laughing at the vision, now they staring at the lights, Everybody got opinions, ain't nobody in my life. Listen, I got scars that I don't show, Got some people that I love, got some people I outgrow. If you wasn't in the rain, don't come dancing in the snow, I was building from the dirt, now the whole damn city know. Listen! You ain't hear me when I spoke! Listen! Now I'm standing through the smoke! Listen! I ain't breaking, I ain't broke! I got fire in my chest, every word I say is gold! [VERSE 2: WESTSIDE GRIPP | GRITTY WEST COAST DELIVERY] Look, listen, I ain't here to make a friend, I done watched a good relationship turn rotten at the end. Everybody screaming family till it's time for them to spend, Then they disappear like smoke when the situation bends. I got game from the pavement, got my name from the grind, Had to sharpen up my instincts, couldn't leave my trust behind. I was moving with a purpose, they was moving out of line, Now I'm looking at the scoreboard, ain't no need to check the time. Westside, let it ride, got the whole whip shaking, Bass knocking through the block, got the streetlights quaking. I ain't chasing validation, I got moves in the making, If the foundation ain't solid, watch the whole thing breaking. I put loyalty above a temporary celebration, I put action over talk, I got no room for hesitation. You can keep the fake love, keep the empty conversation, I'm a product of the struggle, now I'm changing generations. And I ain't gotta be the loudest in the room to make a point, I can read a person's character by how they treat the joint. If you stand beside me, stand. If you fold, then disappoint, We was built to take the distance, we ain't stopping at the joint. [BRIDGE: DONTAYẼ | EMOTIONAL, HALF-SUNG] Can you hear me now? When the whole room gets quiet? Can you hear me now? When the truth starts a riot? I gave everything I had, Even when I felt divided. If you ever doubted me, Just remember I survived it. [VERSE 3: DONTAYẼ | SWITCH TO HARDER RAP FLOW] Now I'm back with a different kind of energy, No apologies for protecting what is left of me. I got visions bigger than the limits they kept setting me, I turned every closed door to another opportunity. Don't confuse my silence with me folding under pressure, I was studying the game while they was chasing the attention. I don't need a hundred people, give me two with good intentions, We can turn a little spark into a whole new dimension. Every loss became a lesson, every lesson made me colder, Had to carry all the weight when nobody took it over. Now the future looking different, got the world upon my shoulders, I ain't waiting for permission, I'm the one who's taking over. Let the 808 hit, let the whole foundation shake, Every word another brick, every move another stake. If you thought I disappeared, that's a motherfucking mistake, I wa
