One

When I was twenty-one
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for city girls
Who lived up the stair
With all that perfumed hair
And it came undone
When I was twenty-one

It was all a dream just a year ago
Bussin' tables and servin' food but y'all don't hear it though
Now I'm on another level but y'all aren't near it though
My soul bleedin' on the track, so spiritual
It's a blessin' 'cause now rappin' is my profession, yo
Set to detonate, I'm just waitin' for my time to blow
White boy at first glance but when I rhyme they know
Race don't mean a fuckin' thing the second that I flow
It's been a year and everything I said would happen has
While everybody that I know was out havin' a blast
I was right here in the studio bustin' my ass
It's been a year, I'm twenty-one but I feel (thirty-five)
Yeah, and now I got this
I taste the blood, no one can stop this
Second I drop this, die hard fans is finna cop this
While the rest of the world follows through fiber optics
I took my time, see I studied the game, learned how to rhyme
I was around drugs and gats, but never delved in crime
Had other things in mind, so I began to grind
First tape was a success, locally, I got press
But I knew this one right here would run the world a mess, but I digress
A year ago, I was a youngin' in his room
Staring out the window, lookin' at the moon, knowin' it's comin' soon
But today I board this rocket ship and sonic boom
'Cause I am no longer a seed, homie, it's time to bloom