Look I promise I'm not another rapper who blows up, then disappears I play for more progression and growth and that come in years I biggest fear is really exposing all of my fears Ironically the more that I'm vulnerable people hear Feel like I been a veteran even though this is new I just acted like I knew who I was and what I could do Maybe that's just how to good Lord bless me to see the truth Celebrities are really no different then me and you I remember when I started DMing one of my heroes Told me there's much more to streaming, numbers and zeros Taught me I gotta be different then all my piers So I been controversy on the mic's like Shapiro Anyways, back to the music, I got a lot I don't think that there's a way to prepare you for what I got Just know I'm coming back and it's for that number one spot And although things change, I still lean on the Rock I know a lot of people that wishing were in my place Only reason I'm here, that's unconditional grace I know a lot of girls with makeup caked on their face I wish I could tell 'em the Creator don't make mistakes I've met a lot of fellows who drown their sorrows in bottles The only thing that they really drowning out is tomorrow This year I prolly won't win a Grammy preaching the Gospel Sometimes the truth is a very difficult pill to swallow You ever love somebody so much you start getting scared? Afraid that when they need you the most that you won't be there I'm not saying that I was emotionally unprepared But there's a difference in being woke and being aware I'm two minutes in and this album's already classic By 2021 I'll be everything I imagined I made my own lane and I like it without the traffic Mostly y'all still got it in park like Jurassic But my challenge is neck So as I walk through this valley filled with shadows and death I walk to the land that was promised to me I may be lost as a man but my spirit is free Welcome to exile We're the one's they left out So walk with your chest out And never put your head down And walk to the land that Yahweh promised to you Never let a man kill your dreams, follow the truth As I rally the troops This is for my little brothers who been Looking up to me ever since childhood youth This the album I envisioned I would write since I was eight years old It's crazy now vibing out in the booth So let the credits roll 'cause this movie gon' be incredible The story starts with a baby as the legend goes Born into slavery so mama made a sacrifice Float the boy down the river to find a better life As faith would have it, that baby would reach the palace Raised to raise a child that's a prince and a man a valor But he was unaware of his ancestral balance The boy that was born in slavery, to those slaves he became the master One day he met the Master who spoke and told him "I need you" "To go back to your land, I chose you to free my people" And though he felt like he was incapable of the task He went from wrecks to riches and then riches to wrecks I know you know the story of the Exodus I am like a modern day Moses with my penmanship So I tell the world is you're feeling like you still in your chains I promise you are not the only one that's feeling this way I told the devil "let me people go" And what am I gon' do about it? I don't even know, yeah I'm just a kid tryna find my way to Canaan 'Cause I'm tired of the lies and Learning this world will never satisfy Everything I have, I just built off hustle From "why" to "why not" like a spin off Russell Success is like a picture and we got all of the pieces I just work words together like a jigsaw puzzle I think I did this beat, no lawyers involved My people follow me, they loyal no matter the cost So as you follow me, prepare for toil and loss This just the intro so lets not spoil it all, yeah This just the intro so lets not spoil it all Welcome to exile