Best Thing Yet

[Chrous from Anita Baker's ' Your The Best Thing Yet'] Best thing yet To ever come into my life, life Ohhh [Verse: IamSu!] Livin' under stars, tryna shine like them Bumpin' the College Dropout, tryna rhyme like him Bumpin' Aftermath shit, tryna rhyme like Em Drinkin' until I'm bent like a duck bill brim I wanna be the greatest, I don't know how to say this But I would die before I'd be the one that didn't make it Starin' in the mirror tryna find a deeper meaning Of why I beat the sun, hung on morning and the evening Cause I'm star gazin', tryna figure out how you got there The top blare, Jay-Z, no Rockwell But I keep a bad beat with me The same ones that starved with me finna eat with me The same ones that came with me finna leave with me It sounds simple but got complicated recently Cause you take a lot of losses, tryna be a winner Climbin' up the ladder of success with no splinters It's hard but it's real I'm from where people die just to live So I give my whole heart in the real Just to spark the young mind of a kid To do it big like Frank White, swagged up, game tight I just wanna shine and give all of ya'll the same light back So when I'm on stage doing my thing Apply that to your life man, hah [Bridge] Best thing yet To ever come into my life, life [Outro: Kool John] Yeah You already know who it is The one and only Mis Shmoop Obama, David Huffer and Kool John Living that Shmoop life, um God works in mysterious ways I always found the beauty in growth Seeing the process of growing nothing to something Is truly amazing God blessed me with a vision To forsee things, I knew, you know I knew, all I had to do was folow my intuection And apply myself And it would get me to where I wanna be You know, It go a couple years back You know what I'm saying When Iamsu and I We were going to the same GM college He was giving me a ride to work Cause I had car problems, And I remember him explaining to me that he did music Um, so me being a music head lover and a music head You know, I did my research and dug him up Um, i instantly copped the rhyming And came across some IamSu freestyles I couldn't believe what I was hearing I was like my young nigga out here Really like tearing up tracks and shit Like that, like, he better than any nigga out here right now Major niggas, professional niggas and even undergound niggas I was like, eh, eh man, I gotta heear more of this bro I gotta here more, so i came I became more interested What you doing with this music shit So he invited me to Chief House, you know One of his buddies, he had a little studio Set up in his bedroom And I started coming over and hanging around And listen to these original tracks,that IamSu was recording And producing himself and you know He had his other you know, his fellow producers Invasion Beats, P-Lo, Kuya and Chief, you know what I mean I was just, like, crazy, like, like,woah Like these guys are developing a new sound That I ain't never heard before And, um, I even became more amazed, you know what I'm saying The talent, that this young man, possessed, you know what I'm saying Consistent quality, and the music he was making, you know what I'm saying IAnd around that time I was throwing these parties across Shmop fest I was throwing this little promotional company called Equippy Cool thing promotions And wanted to climb the youth of promotional skills Seeing something grow form the ground up So, I'm listening to these IamSu tracks And I'm just puzzled and baffled at the fact that No, Nobody knwos at this time, the individual existed, you know what I'm saying So, from then on I was like, I'm gonna do whatever in my power to help this guy get started, you know what I'm saying So, I got as many blank CD's as I can It was probably like 8 discs I told him, I'm gonna get you in these streets So, I make sure everyone I know, know about you, you know what I'm saying So, so I know a lot of people and you know A lot of people come and ask me, you know what I'm saying Yo, you got any more mixes? Cause you make these dope party mixes And these dope slow slow jam mixes I started putting 'Su on the playlist And they like , you know And they wanted to start catching on So, you know, And um And from then on, this is one talented young man This nigga can really rap, you know You know what I'm saying Who is this nigga? You know what I'm saying You know I wanted to convince everyone You know what I'm saying That he was the future And I want them to see what I see So, I see he future in this style I see the future in his rap and his beats You know what I'm saying ANd everyone, you now Like I thought they would catch on You know what I'm saying I'm seeing IamSu grow and transform into the greatest artist Each project, you know what I'm saying He getting better and better and um And it became motivating and inspiring You know what I'm saying,you know what I'm saying I literally seen, no one was fucking with him To him being the man now,you know what I'm saying And, um, I've seen him apply himself And you know and ur And watch him move and grow infront of my eyes So that I knew I could do the same, you know what I'm saying He kept his fans and teams loyal And kept his fans tight And all that shit, and ur I was really happy to see a young man doing that for himself, you know what I'm saying And to go after what he love and to take his music seriously Now, you know Now here we are, couple years later ,you know IamSu's the hottest and the world is noticing his art And all I can say is, I knew You know what I'm saying, I knew [Musical Interlude]