Checkered Flag - Ugly Heroes, Apollo Brown

When shit was rough his time would stand still

Dying like, «Each could be my last meal»

Broke up bricks using the hand scale

Graduated, ask me if I’m glad I made it

Should be songs out, let me live the automater life, annotate it

Master in this shit, Kong

Learn something from me, sitcom

Trust me I have never been the understudy

Never been a funny guy, homie I’m hilarious

I’ll lift you by your funny bone and throw you from my area

I’ve never been the victim, I’m the perpetrator

Of any consequences I’m living with

I’m the antagonist in this bitch

Try me, I’m unmovable

Unusual, could give a fuck how many end up at my funeral

Methods unconventional

And not in an ironic way

I’ll grab a hipster rappers mustache and rip it off his face

Win/win when we weigh options

You lose any way the dice roll homie, time to pay homage

Yeah, I can see the checkered flag

Make minutes stand still, checking on the second hand

Crazy how my head expand

Yeah, we did it fam'

«Nothing's gonna stop me»

Yeah, I can see the end game

Went from a wimp to a sensei

Used to play the middle like a Wednesday

Word perfect with the pen game

«Nothing's gonna stop me»

I put this shit on everything

I’m never settling to lesser things to better things

Never considered what they ever think

Got better things to look for

A greater good to push towards

I made a path and took mine, you made a path and took yours

But good Lord, I never thought I’d make it this far

I’d grow another piece of me for every part I discard

Every step they followed I made sure to take another route

Shoot out to Apollo and Verbal, I call 'em «brothers» now

Older I get, the less my shoulder is chipped

I know my past, so fuck your doubts, I’m getting over that shit

Confidence got me feeling like it doesn’t matter where I go

I’m used to being backed into a corner man, that’s where I’m home

That’s where you feel alive, thrive and learn to survive

There isn’t shame in finding strength when someone hurting your pride

I’m learning to control my doubt and channel it

Make it a strength

We all got demons that we battle with