The Architect

If you got a dream, chase it
Time? Don’t waste it
Love, can’t replace it
One eye open — for real and forever
Hov wrote it, made me believe in ev-e-ry letter
40 thousand feet above Greece, thinking of feta
I better be clever, the life is always said to be better
I can’t move with vendettas while I’m stacking my cheddar
They taking shots, no berettas, I think they coming to get us
I keep my eyes on my lettuce, it take a lifetime to build
That bread can be gone in seconds when that hunger gets killed
I’m always dreaming of mills, when people ask how I feel
I say I’m tired and fed up with all the fake and unreal
The girls that caking their face but never down for a date
Will be the same ones that complain a dude’ll swing for the plate
So keep your cutlery straight and recognise what’s at stake
This beef shit that you hype up only emanates hate
And sit your ass at this table while they all pin you a label
You think you sitting with brothers? Even Kane rocked Abel
Dreams of rocking the Staples and getting paid for my fables
I’m rolling so many leaves think I should play for the Maples
While I be chasing degrees so high I’m stacking my paper
Suspect that I’m selling weed? Ha, so do my neighbours
HOOK:
Yeah I got that ambition, a hustler’s vision
I gotta stay winning, gotta stick to my mission
Never let the hate penetrate, never falter, never break
Dedicate myself, the architect of my fate
Yeah I got that ambition, a hustler’s vision
I gotta stay winning, gotta stick to my mission
Never let the hate penetrate, never falter, never break
Dedicate myself, the architect of my fate
Nipsey got shot and there ain’t no turning back
Had to listen to him so I could learn how to rap
RIP posts on my feed, phone’s black
This the first damn time that I didn’t wanna rap
I ain’t even claiming to be scared (nah)
This ain’t got nothing to do with fear (nah)
I mean I just sat in silence, tryna make sense of the violence
Meanwhile Lauren tryna word it to their kid (that's fucked up)
Frustrated at talent wasted no lie I shed a tear
He all the way in LA and still taught me lessons over here
Stressing on reinvestment, manifest your progression
The tweet he sent out before tell me he knew what he had destined
The 2Pac of my generation
Middle fingers at you if you disagree with my statement
And say a prayer for the ones who ain’t made it
As I pop the cork on this D’ussé and pour it out on the pavement
HOOK:
Yeah I got that ambition, a hustler’s vision
I gotta stay winning, gotta stick to my mission
Never let the hate penetrate, never falter, never break
Dedicate myself, the architect of my fate
Yeah I got that ambition, a hustler’s vision
I gotta stay winning, gotta stick to my mission
Never let the hate penetrate, never falter, never break
Dedicate myself, the architect of my fate