Grown - Soulchef

Amongst the youngsters, never hung with no punks

Since 8th grade, make way, never faking the funk

My crew wasn’t deep, but quality wise, was large

Back then, we wasn’t humble we were trying to be stars

But couldn’t reach them.

I was kinda short but I could speak

And they could never mind the height, I sounded big up on the sequence

Don’t mistake me for a rapper jocking your late beats

It’s been straight heat since I was at school on 188th street

Was a beast with the pen… well at least to my friends

My job is to ensure the rap’s means meet with the ends

Despite the storm, I just write, record, 'til the hype is more

Was between a stellar guy and terrified, what am I fighting for?

I’m certified.

Rippin' apart my shirt and tie

Unlimited bars, for certain, I have determined I am like Simba

I deal with Scars trying to hurt my Pride

Look how I’ve grown, do it all on my own as I verbalize

They say I’m grown, let’s just take a look back

I’m grown, lets just take a look back, look back

They say I’m grown, let’s just take a look back

I’m grown when I’m up on the track, the track

You ain’t alone, said you’d never look back

But I was wrong, let’s just take a look back, look back

They say I’m grown, let’s just take a look back

Now I’m grown, lets just take a look back, look back

Millennium, flow’s venom, windbreakers sport denim

True b-boy, Nike Cortez with holes in them

First show was grade school, flowin' like a wave pool

My addiction is the stage, blowin' up like grenades do

Huh?

Asian Rap?

There’s fame in that?

Well, obviously

Some people making mockeries but I don’t let that bother me

I just keep moving, pursuing the goals that I can see

These professions I can be, there ain’t no way they’re stopping me

Drinkin'

Eating well, getting healthy

I wasn’t a college dropout but I might as well be

Skipped calculus and engineering, said that I’d be wealthy, instead

I thought that writing rhymes would bring me the bread

My Buzz was Light-years ahead, but this was just a campus

Me and my boys wasn’t toys, writing party anthems

The goal was: King size, in my eyes

Mesmerized, from the earth to the sky, no lie

The butterfly feeling

They say I’m grown, let’s just take a look back

I’m grown, lets just take a look back, look back

They say I’m grown, let’s just take a look back

I’m grown when I’m up on the track, the track

You ain’t alone, said you’d never look back

But I was wrong, let’s just take a look back, look back

They say I’m grown, let’s just take a look back

Now I’m grown, lets just take a look back, look back

And now, I’m graduated, agitated at the hardships

Wondering if I can really get as far as these stars get

And now they rapping about money, cars, and Starships

I’m rapping for the food but they’re just rhyming for the market

Damn, my timing must be off, kid.

They tell me that I’m old

And that the 90s style is gone, kid.

Well, I don’t disagree

But this is all that I be working with

And is it cause it’s death that I like flirting with?

Certainly.

My name is Hydroponikz, don’t you try to spark me

Artsy, but my New York game is John Starks-ly

4−5-6, roll Ceelo like it’s Yahtzee

Some Youtube fame but wonder what that really got me

But before you tell me put on a suit

I’m 'a kick in the door and put my foot in it, too

So they better be prepared for the moment that I show up

Plenty time to grow up after I blow up, motherf---

They say I’m grown, let’s just take a look back

I’m grown, lets just take a look back, look back

They say I’m grown, let’s just take a look back

I’m grown when I’m up on the track, the track

You ain’t alone, said you’d never look back

But I was wrong, let’s just take a look back, look back

They say I’m grown, let’s just take a look back

Now I’m grown, lets just take a look back, look back