You catch my rock, rolling Loners Boulevard You've got dreams, on dreaming
school teen, never got accepted Guess it didn't get to go how I Now a nigga pissed, lookin' at the bottom of the list Like the fuck re my projections? Nigga's like "Next Tory It's all good, you'll be next story" I said "Man, you don't even understand Man, I'm droppin' out now, ain't no next for me" So I left, bus route to the down 53 Took the last that I had for this dream And I spent it on some nonsense, Micky D's Shit, doin' too fine Then I made a call to nigga named Rhymes Said he had a little and it wasn't top-notch But could near do the whole nine So I said "Cool" made a few songs in this Stayed too in this shit But by the month, I was so much had to lay futons in this shit I was in my mom's Drove to my first shows in a new Always said one day I be the man I would just laugh like, who are you Me, go far I can still dream in this full of stars I can still scheme in this full of narcs If can still scheme and I'm on my car show I'mma dream, dream, dream I'mma dream dream like you to me Best words that said to me Best words that said to me
Ten long miles, from a long way I'm headed downtown cause I'm workin' on this lil With no fillers, no throwaway songs, hopin' that this shit go for me, this shit didn't So I make mixtape and another mixtape and another mixtape them nigga's start sayin' shit's hidden Then I meet a guy named Sascha , he tells me thinkin' 'bout takin' up management Say he got a million dollar empire on his mind, he just need an to plan it with He also say he shows out in Texas and maybe I should open up for one Then I say cool man' he books me the next out like I'm showin' up for somethin' I lay down around nine, warehouse live Was my worst show ever, nigga's near got boo'd off stage I performed my live show ever Women in the would scream for a nigga Nigga's in the they was ? up down Bad nigga's let Bun B watch But I feel like I let Sascha down, shit was live on stage That night felt like a nigga had the whole on my shoulders Twenty years old tryna find the one spot in world gettin' colder Then he came to me like, dawg, I could put on this, bet a hundred on this Gives me a few for the next night, set list says dawg you can run it on this And it all out
It's a big The bigger your dream, the bigger you're it It's all in mind Don't let no body fuck up high It's a big The your dream, the bigger you're livin' it It's all in your Don't let no body up your high
Father, I up my son I lift up anyone that with him and by his speed I pray that you go ahead of him I assign angels right now to this And I declare that they will go before you to make straight his path, I command that every crooked path be made straight, every rough place would be made smooth obstacle, every barricade, every blockade Every conspiracy, every trap, now is destroyed and removed out of his way in the name of Jesus And I you that it is written that goodness and love and mercy, form all the things of our life
That was it, I had hit rock bottom, lowest of my life Just me, the music and a couple quarters in my Then it hit me, the phone call that would change my
(Hello) Hi, hi, is this, is this Tory Yeah, who Hi, yeah this is Mike Interscope Uhm, you me your music a couple weeks ago when I was leaving the office Oh yeah, up? Uh, I didn't have a chance to listen to it recently and Oh my head is blown off Oh thank you so much bro, you Ah we to talk (For sure) Uh, do you have this week to sit down? Uhm yeah, yeah, Does does work for you? Yeah that works, works Okay, lock that in Aight I, I gotta run okay? Let's soon, see ya bye
Okay, perfect, I we got him Aye, aye Mike, let me ask you You really think this kid could make hit The music speaks for itself Well go and let's listen, let's see what he's got, let's put it in Okay, do it