Nas、Dave East、Lin-Manuel Miranda、Aloe Blacc - Wrote My Way Out
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[00:00.00]Wrote My Way Out (Explicit) - Nas/Dave East/Lin-Manuel Miranda/Aloe Blacc
[00:10.00]I wrote my way out
[00:11.98]When the world turned it's back on me
[00:14.71]I was up against the wall
[00:17.18]I had no foundation
[00:19.27]No friends and no family to catch my fall
[00:22.21]Running on empty with nothing left in me but doubt
[00:26.87]I picked up a pen
[00:28.30]And wrote my way out
[00:29.67]I picked up the pen like Hamilton
[00:31.68]Street analyst now I write words that try to channel them
[00:34.88]No political power just lyrical power
[00:37.44]Sitting on a crate on a corner sipping for hours
[00:40.04]Scheming on a come up from evening to sun up
[00:42.70]My man awaiting trial misdemeanors we younger
[00:45.33]Courtroom prejudice insufficient evidence
[00:48.22]Jailhouse lawyers these images still relevant
[00:50.83]Flickering lights inside my project hall
[00:53.13]Sickening the mice crawl all night long
[00:55.40]And '87 Reaganism many pages I've written on
[00:58.37]Writing songs about rights and wrongs and bails bonds
[01:01.10]Master bedroom bigger than the crib that I was raised at
[01:04.35]I'm the architect like I wrote the code to Waze app
[01:06.81]I'm driven black Elohim from the streets of queens
[01:09.88]The definition of what it was written means
[01:12.80]Know what I mean
[01:14.00]I wrote my way out
[01:15.92]When the world turned it's back on me
[01:18.68]I was up against the wall
[01:21.06]I had no foundation
[01:23.21]No friends and no family to catch my fall
[01:26.14]Running on empty there was nothing left in me but doubt
[01:30.71]I picked up a pen
[01:32.44]And I wrote my way out
[01:34.19]I really wrote my way up out of 6E
[01:36.09]Develop relationships with fiends I know they miss me
[01:38.70]Before the metro cards it was tokens I did the ten speed
[01:41.49]Never had wrote a rhyme in my life what was a sixteen
[01:43.94]At sixteen arrested in housing trip to the mountains
[01:46.64]Came right back trapping off couches watching for mouses
[01:49.16]Only tools we was posed with had to spot smoke lit
[01:52.21]The haters just confusion pay attention how them jokes switch
[01:54.91]Theodora was my favorite of my
[01:57.16]Mama couldn't afford them I learnt everything on the border
[01:59.99]That's a big 8 coke parties with private dancers with no mixtape
[02:03.52]Bumble bee tuna now we could get steak
[02:05.51]I persevered composition I kept it close
[02:07.91]Competition near I'm a spartan without the spear
[02:10.74]Three hundred rhymes it was written before I wrote it
[02:13.40]Opportunity knocking might miss it that window closing
[02:16.03]This poetry in motion I'm a poet
[02:18.04]I wrote my way out
[02:19.96]When the world turned it's back on me
[02:22.57]I was up against the wall
[02:25.09]I had no foundation
[02:27.21]No friends and no family to catch my fall
[02:30.17]Running on empty there was nothing left in me but doubt
[02:34.87]I picked up a pen
[02:36.38]And wrote my way out
[02:37.54]High speed dubbing these rhymes in my dual cassette deck
[02:40.21]Running out of time like I'm Jonathan Larson's rent check
[02:42.83]My mind is where the wild things are Maurice Sendak
[02:45.39]In withdrawal I want it all please give me that pen back
[02:48.14]Y'all I caught my first beating from the other kids when I was caught reading
[02:51.55]Oh you think you smart blah start bleeding
[02:53.76]My pops tried in vain to get me to fight back
[02:56.15]Sister tapped my brains said pssh you'll get 'em right back
[02:58.72]Oversensitive defenseless I made sense of it I pencil in
[03:01.23]The lengths to which I'd go to learn my strengths and knock 'em senseless
[03:04.03]These sentences are endless so what if they leave me friendless
[03:06.62]Damn you got no chill f**king right I'm relentless
[03:09.34]I know Abuela's never really gonna win the lottery
[03:11.97]So it's up to me to draw blood with this pen hit an artery
[03:14.75]This Puerto Rican's brains are leakin' through the speakers
[03:16.90]And if he can be the shining beacon this side of the G.W.B. and
[03:20.13]Shine a light when it's gray out
[03:22.00]I wrote my way out
[03:23.97]Oh I was born in the eye of a storm
[03:28.56]No lovin' arms to keep me warm
[03:33.23]This hurricane in my brain is the burden I bear
[03:37.19]I can do without I'm here I'm here
[03:40.37]Cause I wrote my way out
[03:41.76]I picked up the pen like Hamilton
[03:43.77]I wrote my way out of the projects
[03:45.14]Wrote wrote my way out of the projects
[03:46.72]Picked up the pen like Hamilton
[03:48.92]I wrote my way out of the
[03:50.13]Wrote wrote my way out of the projects
[03:51.83]I wrote my way out
[03:52.96]Picked up the pen like Hamilton
[03:54.63]I wrote my way out of the
[03:59.35]I wrote my way out
[04:02.08]Really I saw like a hole in the rap game
[04:05.16]So if I wanted to put my little two cents in the game
[04:07.90]Then it would be from a different perspective
[04:10.10]I wrote my way out
[04:10.98]I thought that I would represent for my neighborhood
[04:13.76]And tell their story be their voice
[04:16.31]In a way that nobody has done it
[04:18.50]Tell the real story