🎤 DREAM BIG (West Coast Preaching Rap)
(Intro – preacher voice, organ riff playing)
Yeah…
This right here for the ones who never heard it before…
For the ones who been told they’d never make it out…
Listen up…
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(Hook – chorus, crowd chanting)
Dream big — bigger than the block you on
Dream big — bigger than the pain you known
Dream big — blueprint to the good life, gone
Dream big — ‘cause without it you can’t move on
Dream big — rise up, break that chain
Dream big — don’t let life stay the same
Dream big — gotta hustle through the rain
Dream big — this your ticket, claim your name!
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(Verse 1)
Her momma was a product of the hood, no guide, no map,
No books, no goals, just a bottle and a trap.
Pushed a stroller down the block with a blunt in her hand,
Couldn’t spell her name but had a baby in the plan.
By thirteen, the oldest look just like her —
Same pain, same block, same life blurred.
No ambition, no chance, just a carbon copy,
Whole neighborhood sayin’, “Lil’ shorty gone be sloppy.”
But nah — there’s another way, another lane,
Another world past the corner, past the pain.
Nobody gonna knock on your door and beam you up,
You gotta dream for yourself, gotta fill your own cup.
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(Hook – chorus)
Dream big — bigger than the block you on
Dream big — bigger than the pain you known
Dream big — blueprint to the good life, gone
Dream big — ‘cause without it you can’t move on
Dream big — rise up, break that chain
Dream big — don’t let life stay the same
Dream big — gotta hustle through the rain
Dream big — this your ticket, claim your name!
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(Verse 2 – storytelling / testimony)
Look at me — one day I dreamed I was a writer,
Pen on fire, every word cut tighter.
Seven books later, yeah, I’m standin’ here strong,
Spittin’ truth to the block, put my pain in a song.
Coulda stayed stuck where the hate live heavy,
Where the dreams get buried and the hearts ain’t ready.
But I chose to believe in the visions in my head,
Made a blueprint, built a life, now I’m fed.
So to every young queen, every king in the struggle,
You ain’t gotta juggle pain, you can flex a new muscle.
Educate your mind, elevate your grind,
Dream your way out — leave the dead days behind.
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(Bridge – call & response)
🎤 Me: "Who gon’ save you?"
🎶 Crowd: "Me!"
🎤 Me: "Who gon’ raise you?"
🎶 Crowd: "Me!"
🎤 Me: "Who gon’ break that cycle, make that life brand new?"
🎶 Crowd: "Me! Me!"
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(Hook – chorus, final)
Dream big — bigger than the block you on
Dream big — bigger than the pain you known
Dream big — blueprint to the good life, gone
Dream big — ‘cause without it you can’t move on
Dream big — rise up, break that chain
Dream big — don’t let life stay the same
Dream big — gotta hustle through the rain
Dream big — this your ticket, claim your name!
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(Outro – preacher voice, soft keys playing)
Yea
