Joell Ortiz, B.o.B, Mally Stakz - Music Saved My Life lyrics

Early on I knew I was a fan
Hummed the ice cream truck
Beat holdin' mommas hand
Told ‘em to turn it up in the dollar van
Nobody moonwalked better in they pajama pants
I used to try to tap like Gregory Hines
"Lean On Me" word for word, I knew every line
My moms blasting Anita Baker
No wonder I can bake it with a piece of paper
Yea looking back, daddy left bad
It was cool though, music was my step dad
I was raised by Stevie Wonder lionel Richie
Luther and all the Jackson brothers
I used to close my eyes and see far away
On harder days I would chop
It up with Marvin Gaye
It was just a matter of time
I took a crack at the rhyme
And worked this magic of mine

So when I felt like doing wrong
You helped me get it right
And when I felt like giving up
You gave me one more try
And when I felt like it was over
You didn’t let me die
No, you didn’t let me die
Music saved my life

So many different artists I get soul from
Still I move to the beat of my own drum
I’m an avenue and street away
From where Hov from
Rest in piece, Biggie Smalls (baby baby)

Rock away, cats bumping gangster rap
I grew up in an era when
It was a thing to trap
It was the world that I was always angry at
A maniac
Full of rage with nowhere to aim it at
We came up in the hood
But everybody ain’t adapt
My parents did the best they could
I knew my best to pay them back
I pay ‘em back, but just let me take it back
With no fashion
Just airbrushed shirts and faded slacks
If you could do it no better
You’d rock a Coogie sweater
All we knew was the hustle
We never knew no better
Getting crumbles the phrase
Everybody could relate
We thought it’d last forever
Who’d knew it’d be just a phase?
They labeled me a delinquent
Wasn’t nothing a teacher could ever teach me
It’s a miracle I ain’t get
Caught in this street shit
If it wasn’t for hip hop
I wouldn’t be breathing bands

So when I felt like doing wrong
You helped me get it right
And when I felt like giving up
You gave me one more try
And when I felt like it was over
You didn’t let me die
No, you didn’t let me die
Music saved my life

So many different artists I get soul from
Still I move to the beat of my own drum
I’m an avenue and street away
From where Hov from
Rest in piece, Biggie Smalls (baby baby)

Somebody pinch me, this can’t be life
All these big cameras and fancy lights
Man this must be a mistake
Just yesterday my mother cutting the cake
On my 10th birthday she told
Me to make a wish
Here I am right now surrounded by all of this
All of this, man, what a crazy life
Music, you really save my life
You really saved my life

So when I felt like doing wrong
You helped me get it right
And when I felt like giving up
You gave me one more try
And when I felt like it was over
You didn’t let me die
No, you didn’t let me die
Music saved my life

So many different artists I get soul from
Still I move to the beat of my own drum
I’m an avenue and street away
From where Hov from
Rest in piece, Biggie Smalls (baby baby)