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Lyrics:
In the pursuit of tryina make myself relevant/
I’m like ‘forget it, all I wanna do is really vent’/
Everything I want from out this world is at my fingertips/
But when I wake up in the afternoon it seems I forget that
I’m the illest cat from Indiana to grip a pen/
Stone’s throw from Chi-town, hop-skip from Michigan/
Not representin’ it, not influencin’ it/
Only returned once to the place my tuition went/
Ever since I graduated, now I’m out in Cali homes/
Diggin out my dreams from the post-grad catacombs/
I’m sure I’m not alone, this is where you go to live ‘em/
All this opportunity, still I’ve come to no decision/
I could rattle off about a hundred things that I can do/
If I wanna master one, 99 I’ll have to boot/
‘99 was rapping two, years and plus eleven more/
Longest thing I did besides, eating-breathing-sleeping or/
Playing video games, questioning the universe/
I’ve been called a nerd, cause to popular I’m too adverse/
Now you see I’m doing Earth-Tones tryina paint a picture/
Of the way I see the culture (plus!) high school is like a fixture/
Of the times we’re living in I figure when I blow up It’ll start making some dividends/
Then I’ll present my ends/
To, each other introduce them you know what I mean/
First thing I buy with a lotta money’s a lotta bling/
Thousand-dollar jeans, cars with a lotta screens/
Iono, a hockey team/
Whatever’s hot it seems costs a lotta green, I’ma pay off my debt first/
Open up a business where my people can network…/
Cause I’m bad at, staying in touch/
And uh, they must be too cause we don’t talk too much/
So here’s to 2010 gettin it in and tryina cover ground/
Thank You to this instrumental I’m presently done with, now.
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This is a new decade, time for new methods/
Time for new quests and time for new questions/
I’m not one for reso-lutions for the new year/
But who here is sick of s***?/
Okay, who here got everything they ever imagined as a Christmas gift?/
I know somebody wished for world peace; the point is/
We’ve got a ways to go–/
The devil is the only one with whom we should be, con-frontational/
And, no matter your religion, there is a devil in it/
An entity that’s tempting you to be like ‘just forget it’/
But whatever is your mission, you should be relentless/
And don’t forget to remember what the value of a friend is/
See, I’m just a penman, captain of this ship I got/
Floatin on the ocean with the motions of the hippest-hop/
Last time I asked you and you didn’t wanna listen ahk/
I am gonna end it here so let the instrumental stop!
