Do It All - Oddisee

I’m tryna do it all

(From now on until the day that I’m gone

I think large cause the Earth is too small

For real I’m)

Tryna do it all

(A blank page is how it all starts off

And rhyme and the blueprint’ll get drawn on)

Cause I’m

Tryna do it all

(Just like ??? give it up or we gon' take by force

Because I’m)

Tryna do it all

(Without a pause and I ain’t got no choice

But to do better than whenever before)

Because I’m tryna do it all

I’m trying make the world know me, stack G’s, yet be lowkey

Get paper with my brothers like the majors, but we so free

So we sign like we don’t speak

I’mma rhyme like I’m tryna save the earth within the time I’m spinnin on it

The way my career is going, I might get to spending on it

Depending on if my minutes longer than 15

I might say a verse and then end the song on a big screen

Picture that from a small town with big dreams

From flying coach to buying coach, I’m in between

I’m not a star, somebody lied

I ride the subway as a car, I’m gettin by

My life is hard

Not all the time although yes I’m ready to die, ain’t trying starve

I’m on the grind from poverty to the bottom line

And my barter time concluding only with dollar signs

I need change like a dollar for four quarters

I want fame, I can’t lie to all my supporters

Pops wasn’t around like immigration at the border

Illegal aliens gave me my alias, one saucer

We ate off the same plate, became a part of

Each other, we was moving as one cause one thought could

Change the world, Eric Clapton with the guitar

Could talk in the death but the sun is even a dying star

Had a couple meetings, guess we ain’t poppin enough ace

Rappers incriminatin like it’s no open and shut case

For no one time waits, me and my primates

Had guns like prom dates, look me in my face

Have you ever seen time stand still?

Ask yourself questions like why does man kill?

But fuck it, cause even Big Daddy Kane was Abel

So I’mma spoil my kids like the fruit Eve gave you

Now peep the pattern as we movin on up the ladder

Had a dream of how we beam up, puttin the focus on what matters

Most, damn it, I hope that y’all ain’t think that the ???

It would never let up, never, full court press upon the ball

Buildin bridges in this rigid bidness, plus stay on our pivot

Pilin albums with a different stylin

We spit to shift the balance

The District Diamond fill up they mind with the realest of rhymin'

Visions get wide when I apply it, now it’s livin inside 'em

Borrowed tomorrow and gave back through my raps, our motto

Gotta let y’all know, so our steps led a path to follow

Yeah, son, bread crumbs, left two steps from the edge

Not scared, feelin prepared, that’s for whenever that bread comes

Never loafin with potent, the shop’s forever open

Speakers smokin with O shit to crack your windows open

And get to zonin, jonin on whoever want it

We go in on every song that we on because we tryna do it all