I Rap Because 2

[Intro: Rates] Yo, Rates, check [Verse 1: Rates] Thought of the goal and the reason why I still write these tracks Cause I ain't one to quit, I get [?] giving my life to rap How generic, I'm guessing you think, but let me explain When I started, this rapping shit was expressing the pain Only spit to my bro and show the best to my mates Hand me a pen and a page and tell me to mess up the game I thought fuck it, I'm going hard, I'm not lazy, bro Choked on my first freestyle on the radio I went home and wrote a track; it was crazy, bro I had them shivers when I wrote it hoping Jay's at home So I could spit with Jay and Kers and show I had this crazy flow Hoping we could make a track together then away we go Up in the clouds, I needed money, thinking stupid shit Boys so fucking red, I heard that other crews are moving in Focus on the music shit Drugs I was abusing them Everybody worried, getting violent, think I'm losing it Back to the rap and I went and dropped a track 'I Rap Because' We were pumping jobs, I had to stop 'I Rap Because' You'd think I'd drop a mixtape or something but nah, nah I'd fuckin' fight but these cunts would think I'm half-assed [Hook: Rates] x2 I rap because I let my hate go, no I attack in my raps [?] Am I ever gonna change, no, no I rap because my tracks are catching in full [Verse 2: Rates] I started writing more, but I was lost I was trapped seeing all these other rappers, man they're wacker Know we better than them And I should clean my fucking act up Maybe I could get a record deal cause I don't have one Maybe I should walk away and sink in but I felt a buzz Every time we rap, man that's a wrap, they never dealt with us My mental health was declining, you can tell that I'm trying I saw the stuff I was writing, come and help me to find it Wrote a track I called it 'Nightmare' and I showed Scott This was my life, this ain't a story and there's no plot Wasn't gonna drop it, he told me I had to show James [?] was tripping, he said to drop it cause it's flame, I got no shame I aired my life to the world, and then I got a good response and changed my life in this world I went on tour with my bro, and everything was paid for Man we spent some money, yo these other rappers ain't raw Get up on the stage I can't explain what I was feeling then Had the crowd chanting back, no one as real as them [Hook] [Verse 3: Rates] I kept writing, never bored, this is all I know All I know is to write a track and then record my flow I feel the urge and this passion for rap and [?] slow I'd give my life for this shit, it's more than audio I did my debut album in only seven days Topped the charts, forced Mac Miller into second place Still I had to hear these wack rappers up on Triple J Press it to the host, [?] Kerser getting played You're kidding me, and I ain't even get the fucking crew involved Will this fucking label even tell me what my unit's sold? Then I had some money come in, I bought a new car Trippin' on the Xannies, crashed the fucker going too fast I'm in a maze, I'm in a cloud, everything goes slow I'm in a place, I look around, I smell the smoke choke On the fumes and the dust of a hell that most won't [?] a [?] until their time is coming so close I feel this white light, this force man, it's no ghost Is this epiphany, a dream man this is no joke There's no one there, I need something to do I'm in a state I lost contact with myself, how could I ring a mate? Shit was real, that music's real and it steal my fate I had these waves of motivation, people feel my rage So many tracks recorded but I was lacking performance You hear that when I'm talking, all the raps I was scrawling Were so wack I ignored them, all the drugs we used to fuck with were attacking our organs [Bridge: Rates] As if that was important As if that was important As if that was important As if that was important, what [Hook] [Outro: Rates] I don't rap for applause, I rap to hack your thoughts And I don't rap for sluts, I don't rap for packaged drugs I only rap for the love, man, and that's a buzz I don't rap for applause, I rap to hack your thoughts, I rap to hack your thoughts And I don't rap for anything other than love and that's a buzz I Rap Because