Not One

[Verse] I'm not one, of those guys that pull up in the whip I pull up on the bicycle But still get July colder than Pop-sickles Sending shivers up your spine when I rhyme Giving you arthritis all the time when I chime In on your cool don't mean to be rude nor intrude Cause I got that style that don't make no sense, to your cerebral Somebody get these cats a visual Cause they ain't attracted to the flow unless its physical Riches that they rapping 'bout, really its despicable How the mind can be so confined To rapping about the same stuff mixtapes and albums worth of time Its hard being the middle child Expected to walk in the shadows of my older Siblings while setting an example for my younger Curious eyes watching me as the fam just sit and wonder Life is really a boat Will it float or just go under Its gonna be a stormy day as I look up to the sky And the clouds eyes get puffy and start to cry The raindrops kamikaze my Pearl Harbor And faint shots from a camera remind my mom of my ghost father I gotta spit lyrics to cover the feelings that it harbors Nitro equip my ship so my ship can coast farther The nitro is the only thin stopping the Jewellsta from committing a slaughter Is the nitro, and the nitro brand name is called faith And I have faith in a brighter day Looking at my circumstances with a brighter face Brighter views, and I've never been afraid to be an individual Though this same individualism I'm sure was the source of my many duels But I don't mind helping the few that's still lost To follow the road less traveled by like Robert Frost Yo I'm no stranger to struggle I used to hustle myself So when they ask is it safe, I ask is it really safe to tell? Cause times get hard and situations unpredictable And sometimes it feels like the love of the fam is not even unconditional And scenes get steeper than canyons Feel like we falling, no landing Our lives must be artwork, and we ain't even controlling the painters canvas We ain't powerful enough to paint the pictures with our own lives All we can do is go with the flow, and take cautious strides Trying to avoid becoming a caucus left by the side Even if it means breaking the law Becoming a caged animal without pride Or a second chance at a normal life Without a second glance you're looked upon as a vampire in 30 Days Of Night Its like, risk it all or be broke Sell candy or sell dope The thought of this is like a junky on withdrawals How is he to cope? Put this topic under the scope And analyze how everybody is not born rich I cannot emphasize this enough, growing up I had to be raw steak tough Come with the funk cause Mama wasn't raising no punks I was the raisin in the sun In a batch full of grapes Squashing the competition to my composition Making my way, through all the bull of the times And that's it, we almost at the end of the chapter The chapter ends there is no more That's the end of the war Now I'm out in Royal Oak witnessing new scenes With new schemes and new friends I still remain a nuisance I'm not one I'm not one I'm not one Of those guys without trials and tribulations once the day is done I'm not one