Cement & Sky

(Hook)

I came from the dirt, now I'm up in the lights

Feet on the pavement, head in the heights

City don’t sleep, neither do I

Turnin’ my grind into reasons to fly

Yeah, came in the storm, now I’m calm in the fire

Heart full of hunger, soul full of wire

Concrete roots, but I’m reaching the sky

Brooklyn my echo, I’m built to survive

(Verse 1)

Took the A train, soul full of dreams

Bag full of nothin’ but plots and some schemes

Dropped in the jungle, survived off belief

Now they look twice every time that I speak

Pressure made diamonds, I cut through the stone

Did it alone, now I’m takin’ the throne

Eyes on the target, my mind in the zone

Talk with my walk, yeah the city my tone

Lions and wolves, I done danced with 'em both

Ran with the shadows, I ain't need a coat

Weathered the weather, the sleet and the smoke

Now I got heaters in every quote

Momma said hustle, I turned it to gospel

Speak to the pain like I’m readin’ a novel

Pavement prophet, young street apostle

Came from the bottom, now look at this castle

(Hook)

I came from the dirt, now I'm up in the lights

Feet on the pavement, head in the heights

City don’t sleep, neither do I

Turnin’ my grind into reasons to fly

Yeah, came in the storm, now I’m calm in the fire

Heart full of hunger, soul full of wire

Concrete roots, but I’m reaching the sky

Brooklyn my echo, I’m built to survive

(Verse 2)

Voice got the echo of trains underground

Soul got the rhythm of cities that pound

Every mistake was a jewel that I found

Every “you can’t” just a part of my sound

Now I’m in rooms where I’m settin’ the tone

Did it with scars they ain't even known

Flex ain’t a muscle, it’s how you come home

Still got that borough blood deep in my bones

No silver spoons, just forks in the road

Took every one that would challenge the soul

Now I’m in lanes where the stories unfold

And every new verse is a bar full of gold

Mirrors don’t lie, I stare at the truth

Made from the chaos, the struggle, the proof

City of dreams? Yeah, I brought the booth

Now they repeatin' my name on the roof

(Hook)

I came from the dirt, now I'm up in the lights

Feet on the pavement, head in the heights

City don’t sleep, neither do I

Turnin’ my grind into reasons to fly

Yeah, came in the storm, now I’m calm in the fire

Heart full of hunger, soul full of wire

Concrete roots, but I’m reaching the sky

Brooklyn my echo, I’m built to survive

(Outro)

Wrote this in motion, no time for still

If you want truth, come walk where it's real

Step on my path, you gon’ feel what I feel

Brooklyn raised me — I bend but don’t kneel