Brick by Brick

I came in with a chipped front tooth and a clean plan

Back pocket full of doubt, left hand full of beat scans

Used to count cracks in the sidewalk by my stoop

Now I count wins when the whole block move

Mama said, "Boy, keep your name in the room"

So I wrote it on the page, let it bloom through the gloom

Cold coffee gone, but the hunger stayed loud

I don't chase the crowd, I just build my sound

One eye on the clock, one eye on the gate

If it don't feed the soul, I don't entertain fate

Step by step, I make the hard road mine

Every line got weight like a brick in time

Say my name right

When the bassline lands

I been broke, I been blessed

Now I got my stance

Brick by brick

I made this fit

Brick by brick

I don't quit, I don't quit

Brick by brick

Watch me lift

Brick by brick

Yeah, I built it like this

Late train home with a split lip grin

Same old block, but I don't live the same sins

I learned pain got a way with a mask on

So I let it in the verse, then I pass on

Old friends talk big, but they fold on the real

I kept my word in the dark, kept my hand on the wheel

No silver spoon, just a steel-cut will

And a beat-up notebook that I still fill

I seen doors shut fast, heard the lock turn twice

Still I found a back way through the frost and ice

Now they want the code when the room gets bright

But I was in the basement making wrongs go right

Say my name right

When the bassline lands

I been broke, I been blessed

Now I got my stance

Brick by brick

I made this fit

Brick by brick

I don't quit, I don't quit

Brick by brick

Watch me lift

Brick by brick

Yeah, I built it like this

If I fall, I fall forward

If I bleed, I bleed ink

Took the noise, made a signal

Had to sink just to think

Now the whole thing rise up

From the dust to the wrist

Brick by brick, I remember

How a dream gets built

Brick by brick

I made this fit

Brick by brick

I don't quit, I don't quit

Brick by brick

Watch me lift

Brick by brick

Yeah, I built it like this