shyea i ve been working in my bedroom for a decade that ain t gon change i don t need em i ll be damned if i was seventeen battling for my freedom they told me they had better ideas than me i don t see em y all said you were fans of token well it s time you meet him i ve been learning that what s running my generation is fear i ve been learnin that you cannot teach dedication to peers i ve been learning by myself you ve been very patient i m here i m here finally aight i ve been invincible ever since i was told that being different is a gift i hold been driven ever since my initial video tryin to get into shows on my tippy toes i define persistence i ll tell you to your face as if you didn t know so anyone tryin to confirm their practice i don t listen to talk i observe the action that s why i work like it s pure mechanics automatically swallow batteries burp the acid these work like magic these bursts of passion could reverse the earth s determined axis i left the world and i ain t returning bastards i live by my words now research the map quest i don t receive your distractions you rely on teamwork but all of your team work like asses and i can talk about the success of my own career and say i m the fuckin leader of that shit that s that shit to turn a coward to a buddy hoping for power above me but i wouldn t count with your money if i was without any house or was hungry and you had thousands and thousands to fund me i m seventeen and you are a child to me how funny give me a second alright with independence i built up a method no women or men will be given a leverage of limiting anything i don t really gotta be thinking about a limit i literally eliminate every limit who livin and nobody really wanna be givin me lip because even all of my literacy will lift you to heaven just so i can drop you below hasn t been a motherfuckin second that i m not in control humans also goddamn weak but know that i got loftier goals just because it s never been done man it doesn t mean that i won t make it happen i know i will make it happen if i said i ll make it happen just know i will make it happen and i haven t even received the knowledge to fail not pressured by the pressure when all else is lost i prevail self taught yeah self taught since first grade writing my first rhyme hiding it under my bed and hoping no one would find next week suspended again and watching my mom cry like why we paying this therapist for all of his time self taught since fifth grade hating myself getting ditched by all of my friends blaming myself found garageband on the computer i was bored i been writing for four years i might as well record self taught since eigth grade first solo mixtape getting laughed at with so much hate people embarrassed to be around me i went home i ll just stay inside i was inspired to grow self taught until now as i write this looking at this project like i hope they like it but as i write what helps me make it better as i try to forget what forces me to remember these eraser shavings 6