Ayo talk, 6ix As as you played me this joint I already knew Yo this some fucking, Call shit And it got me hella excited 'cause I wanted to do like A Last Call, I remember the first time I heard I thought shit was so tight dawg I was like, man I'm tryna tell my story, you know I'm sayin' And uh, I remember Cole did it, when did he do it? He was on Friday Lights? Nah nah, he did it on The Up yo When he did the Last on the warmup I was like " I'm tryna do mine So since this got that vibe I'ma do my Call right now for y'all And my voice is messed up too, this is the last track of Young
Yeah, Back in the day I wasn't shit, Penny pinching I couldn't pay the rent, homie 'bout it I'm wondering where the years went, homie Just a youngin' survive, they was hatin' on me I was working nine-to-five, I was waitin' homie I was bussin' tables fantasizin' 'bout cakin' them slip away, my dreams wasn't waitin' on me This for anyone with ambition, calling anybody that'll I'm wishing all your dreams true, 'cause mine did And yeah, you know I had to put in the rhyme kit But that came from sacrifice Not on the selling drugs and smackin' dice (listen)
Someway somehow, I understood still If you want to and get it you know where to find me I don't got no time for anyone who be tryin' me Know if don't understand I'ma leave 'em behind me I'll be I got no time, no no I said be asleep I said I got no time, no, no, no
Yeah, I treat the beat like it's my son, my DNA And this southern playeristic like we was in the eight in the day, I was young, broke and infamous A Young Sinatra, I was Who welcomed you to forever Under Pressure And you The Incredible True Story of Bobby Tarantino And Everybody in the 85 Goddamn it good to be alive And all bitches that I passed up fuck witcha 'cause your hair was too gassed up Member with the gat, masked up
Goddamn it's kinda to reminisce on all this shit man What it was like up. man, just, motherfuckers in and out of the crib, doing drugs, drugs, all types of stuff. Meanwhile, I was just keep it together, I was make sense-sense of all this shit around me, I didn't how to take it, how to it, you know what I mean. And then I'm supposed to be going to school and getting grades and shit, but I'm seeing like, domestic violence in my house, and just, so much on. And I'm sure everybody was like, damn, yo
Why little Bobby didn't to school today?" On the real, I was anything to run away And that's the same reason kids join every day they wanna be accepted, but at home they too neglected Meanwhile, america quick to call him a thug But all he ever wanted was a father to give him love Tell him that he him, that he need him he won't ever leave him Never smoke crack, lie, and he'll never beat him I feel like all my life I been a break Looking at my family, I ain't make the same mistake And I know that shit sound up but they not all doin' great Oh my God please, can I have a with 'em? Member of my family without they hand out for five G's To pay they or they lawyer fees (huh) I learned something, I ain't giving y'all a I'll give you worth more, that's my time I dropping stacks, I'm dropping knowledge Unless it's for my nieces and nephews to go to And hit me on the phone, hit me up " Uncle Bob, you at? Yeah I know your pockets fat but I don't a fuck 'bout that I'm we family" (uh) We a breed family, yeah, yeah, uh
Man see I when I was like fifteen years old and my dad took me to the studio--I know is random I'm just trying to take you through it, right. And, I'll never forget it I had like rhyme books--he'll tell you, tell you man, I just, I through them motherfuckers I was for like fifteen minutes straight. And that was my time yo, I was like tenth grade, in the studio, and I knew that this was what I to do. I it
I knew it ever since I first saw Bill I been flowin' like that blood, Uma Thurman None other the RZA, yeah he did the soundtrack And then I discovered Wu-Tang soon as I that And then Big L, Mos Def, and Nas, ain't no turning back Couldn't change it if I tried, homie, how 'bout See I'm a student of the game, so and plain But I'ma to take it back to before I ever sat class on a plane
I was in Park, right. Well I guess technically, if you wanna go that, I was uh, I was in Germantown, uh no actually it was in Village, back in Maryland I was living in my basement. And some happened, you know, she me out, it was Christmas, whatever I love you Genie. Anyway, so shit happened, and I just kept it pushing. You know, I was homeless for a while, whatever, you know, I went, uh, I at my mentor's house, Solomon, and I back at my Godparent's house, Jo and Bernie, I love ya'll. Uh, Mary Jo, I'm sorry when I used to smoke, I would the shit out of your cigarettes, I you, I'm sorry about that. But, you remember, always you let me record, I'd always be recording in the attic or I could so, I love you, I thank you for me there. But then, she was like, "you gotta get the outta here" too, after a while, she me some time, but like, I was twenty old at this point. She was like, "nah, you gotta get the fuck outta and do something with your life. " And this was right around the time I opened my first show for Ghostface Killah man, in Gaithersburg, in Old Town, the was insane, I'll never forget it, and that's I met my boy Lenny, Big Lenbo, wassup! That's man, we just started kicking it and hanging, he in College park and before I, I knew it I was living with him in his basement. And this is right the time I met 6ix, and 6ix was to the University of Maryland at the time, is right down the street. So I'd go to their dorm room, I remember there was I would just crash in the when we was making beats. We was doing all of shit man, when we first got out we did the Young Sinatra, and now we on the Young Sinatra motherfucker shit is crazy man. And I like, I used to quarters from Lenny just so I could go to the 7-11 to eat and he was like, "you why are you stealing, ask me bro," and I was supposed to get a job, I was sleeping in, uh, his basement on the couch, is the cover to my first album, Pressure, shout out Cathy, shout out the Rosado family, all my brown people! We it, it's crazy, but nah nah, listen, I'm getting ahead of myself, I'm getting of myself. So like, I was with him and I was to get a job, right? And he was like, " Yo, you get a fucking job bro. " Things were going so good with the that we kinda stopped talking it, it seemed like every week new was happening, and I sat him down one day and I was like, " Look bro, please, like, can you give me one year, like give me one year, man, let me put into that year. And if I don't get it, fuck it, I'll submit, and I'll just it on society." And he was like, " Bro I'ma you one year, " and for one him, his family, all his homies, Benny, man! They took of me, they put, he put clothes on my back, he put food in my stomach, you know he me with microphones, and recording, and yo, almost a year to the fucking day bro, I to Def Jam. And my man, he was a surveyor, out there making sure all the get built, rain, snow, sleet, all that shit for twelve dawg! And when I my deal I said, " that! Quit your job, moving to LA! " That was crazy, so we get to LA, we're off Coldwater Canyon. Alta Mesa, in studio city man, and I'm going to the with No I. day, and like, shit is crazy. That's the first I met Cole, yo shout out Cole, my fucking boy. Big Sean, all these man that I met, it was crazy, Don Cannon, everybody. That's when I met Kev, Bobby my engineer, what up Bobby? It was like, life was insane. I dropped Sinatra Undeniable, and that was crazy, was insane, 'cause that was the first time
Me and my boys hit the road On the real you know we went zero to overload Performing in front of the fans, had their hands waving This is all I ever wanted, this is all I'm Me and my boy Chris shot the Two visionaries on a mission, shit been the same ups and downs came around, had a lot of problems But no matter what happened you we always solve 'em We solve 'em, like
Man, it's kinda crazy about it though. Like so has happened yo, and I mean shit, by the y'all are hearing this, I'm 28, I'm 27 while I'm it. I mean right now literally I'm on Bobby Tarantino, Ultra 85, Young Sinatra 4, and a whole of other shit, man this is crazy! Acting, writing, like I'm so, I can't believe I'm man, we grinded for so long, I for so long, yo. And they hate you man, they try to make me bad about how I look, how I speak, how I rap, how I act, my race, my everything, they just hate you man, hate you when you in this position. But you let 'em, you let 'em, you can't let that shit get to you man. to persevere, continue to be the you you can be, I'm here right now man, best friends. I got everything I could want man, even you always want more deep down, and you got goals down, that's great, but that shit, I'm so happy, I'm so blessed man. So if you listening to this now, no matter how old you are, how young you are, whether you on a bus headed to get your education, or you driving from work pissed off at boss, just man, just please do what you want in life. So many people, they say, " Oh I do this but," or " I because," and you already fucking lost, they lost, and I felt bad for that 'cause that person never make it. " I would, but I don't the money," " I would, but I don't have the time," Fuck that, you do it man, you do what makes you happy, you have live selfishly in aspect. worrying about others, stop freaking out, just on yourself man, and own happiness, that's the realest thing. And that's all I can you, because you can't help else until you help yourself, you what I'm saying. So please, put the on first, they say on the airplane, cus', put your own mask on, and go do it man. Go do it, just live your
I love y'all, you so much for tuning in, uh, I hope you've enjoyed Young Sinatra experience, I know I have. Uh, is prolly gon' be the last one tho, uh, gon' be the last one for sure. I'm coming back with some fun, but, I know. I you guys! 85's gonna be crazy! I crazy! Bobby Tarantino's gonna be that shit, whoo! We took 'em back this boom bap, now we head to the future, we ain't scared, we make music for everybody, you know what I I love you, look at that accent coming out. I don't know why, every time I get on the mic that accent, go cuh, job like all day boy, you sound like Wale, of your neck. I love so much. Pack, yeah, yeah. Yeah!