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Lyric Analysis

My god First off Depressions a bitch It’s like being pressured to get pressure to lift ( a take on pressure where the meanings translate to “feeling forced to get the weight off your chest”) Can’t find the tab on your drive ( A triple entendre that means not being able to locate your motivation, searching for something lost-like you can’t find a tab on your computer-and “drive” that carries to the next part of the line) and then the energy shifts ( and the “enter g shifts-referring to the tab on a computer-, and shifts like a stick shift referring to “drive”) Tryna stay on the straight path but your mind starts to drift (drift referring to the drive scheme and drift as in unfocused) But now I kick it into gear ( Drive scheme) I got a mission nigga Even when I’m static I be moving like a fidget spinner (when you place a fidget spinner down, the center is still while the bearings are moving) Tryna right my wrongs and then move on breaking records like I’m Guinness And be fly with the birds like a middle finger I draw my own limits how I pen a ceiling Using my words to shoot up, I ain’t talking penicillin ( A homophone using penicillin. You take shots with penicillin, but trying to shoot up in a different way like rising through the ranks. And I pen a ceiling. A ceiling can be used as a metaphorical limit, but saying that I pen my own means that there are no limits besides the ones Roman create and he doesn’t plan on creating any. ) Tryna be hokage cuz I’m moving with village ( Naruto is an anime where ninjas live in villages and the leader of the hidden leaf village is known as the Hokage ) Be the face for the people While I’m steady doing business Watch how the music connects us The best ones, we next up, teaching on stage like a lecture I got the juiced up flames in my right hand ( his passion, his power, his control, his writing) And I’m coming with bar after bar like my name was Streisand ( Barbara, Bar/Bar) It takes time to turn lemons into lemonade Any man worth his time ain’t minute made ( Minute Maid Lemonade ) That was a hard lesson to learn So now I’m back with heat And my notebook I let it burn I got music in my veins So I pray for the pain Cuz i only get stronger when I bleed Like I don’t ever like to lose See me tryna change the game ( Sore losers, cheaters ) And the music is all that i need My god my god it’s the music Use it to control dreams like they’re lucid ( lucid dreaming ) My god my god It’s the movement My god that music’s the movement I’ve been down but I’m back on my bullshit Even when I’m losing never losing the music Use it to make dreams come true like they lucid My god my god that’s the music

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For a short period recently, I struggled with depression. I’ve had little episodes before but it was more like prolonged melancholy: everybody goes through it. But this was real. Losing people you thought were really for you, is crushing especially when you were dreaming big with them. But when you aren’t a priority to them, you have to fix yours. However my plans for life relied on these people and since they were cut off, i was lost and lonely. The only thing that brought me out of my funk was the thought that there are still people suffering right now and that with or without allies, my goal was to help people. That hasn’t changed and the fact that i thought it did made me angry with myself. That’s how I broke out of my self-pity and got back to where i needed to be. Therefore: “But now i kick it into gear, I got a mission nigga.” So even while i’m stuck, my mind is moving and I’m planning. Visions of past mistakes come with these thoughts so I do my best to fix what I can and just keep climbing not fooling myself into thinking that I am my mistakes. I want to get to a point where I’ve done right by people and I’m successful but not belligerent like a lot of celebrities with new-found fame. And if anyone can still hate on me as a person at that point, then I want to be comfortable knowing that I’m in a good place and I can tell them F#<$ off. -“Be fly with the birds like a middle finger.”


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