SoulChef, Hydroponikz - Grown lyrics

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