Exhale - IVAN B

Everybody thinkin' they got it, but all I see is robotics

If you make a way from the jump, rappers are hoppin'

Wonder if it’s really real-all the love that you’re giving me

Do you really want a friend or are you scared to be enemies (ugh!)

Do this on my own in a pen and no label

I do the horse work, yeah, nothing is stable

Demons wearing these halos, don’t believe every angel

Nothing’s fate 'til it’s fatal, flip this script be the staple, yeah

Let me keep it real with ya

Say you the top pick, but you ain’t the topic of discussion

Buncha rappers talk a lot of nonsense

Which is funny, I can’t even understand it

Man, I wanna know what happened

Look what rap’s is turning into

No skills with a beat that they feed you

Sixteen-year-old kids feeding into, see-through

I’ll be there before you ever see me be you, yeah

Doesn’t matter what I say or what I write about

All that really matters are the values that I write about

If you’re saying things that you don’t know of, I’ma call you out

Don’t you say you know me off a couple things you heard about, yeah

Tryna end makin' ends meet, I’m tryna write the simple things that you can’t see

You start accepting defeat when you care more about your feet

Than any journey you see and all the steps that you need

What could I paint the world when they don’t see the picture?

If you got what you wanted, do you think that it will fix ya?

(Nah)

Never knowing what you had until you lose it and it hits ya

Never know what you can reach until you take a shot and miss it

I’ma always do me, only time I really lose when I lose sleep

Salivating when I hear a beat, let’s eat

Oh, you don’t see the wave?

Let’s see!

I use to hit up every blog waiting like, «Oh well…»

Had a flash drive, took it to a concert, threw it on stage with my email

If you’re gonna fail, might as well do it yourself

I had nobody, no connects, no money

If it’s me in a room, yeah, nobody saw me

So I did it myself, now everybody wants something

Saying to us «See, man, I said it was coming!»

That kid from the west side wrote his feelings, now they feel him worldwide

Seeing minds open all wide, if you want the work, yeah, we open all night

Night shift game, up the game all night

Exhale

What’s a wave when the whole team sails?

Friends come when things sell

Is it real?

I can’t tell

Is it real?

I can’t tell

Yeah

I got all this anger inside of my mind and I’m sure that it’s making me blind

I look at the things that I have in my life, everything that I bottle inside

I take it all in but I can’t let it go

Why does the road always feel like it’s home?

Say I’ll collapse while they stay and they roam

Anger that’s in me, I need to let it go

I know I need to let it go

I gotta let it go, but I can’t

All this hunger that is in me, yeah

I know you say you get me, even though I know you can’t

I know I need to let it go, I gotta let it go, but I can’t

All this hunger that is in me, yeah

I know you say you get me, even though I know no one can

I think you got it confused, I’m not here to make friends

I know rappers that hate, I get love from their fans

And you want my attention with things you’ve been saying

How many times you’re gonna write to me?

Huh?

I’m just saying!

I try to be nice by not saying a word

Try to be nice when your feelings are hurt

Could care less what you gotta say

This for anyone who really thinks they’re worth writing a verse

I’m not into the beef or the games

Everybody’s got something to say

Everyday there’s some kid getting shot in the rain

I’m not wasting my time with you lames

Couldn’t care less who you think that I sound like

I’m looking for God, you can have all the limelight

This music is more than just feeding my pride

Fans always sayin' I’m saving their lives

When I’m all in your head, yeah, we gettin ahead

Killing this is a dream, let me put that to bed

Want a chain and a crown, 'cause they say I got next

Wanna press me with lines but I’m not so impressed

Look how swift the pen is

Leave a dent in the game, I’m the dentist

Peace and love, but anybody can get it

Ace among men, I’m the menace

My life’s inside these lines, that’s a life sentence (woo!)

I know none of you thought I was good enough

You’re listening now like I leveled up (Leveled up!)

You’re feeling it now, put a finger up (Put em up!)

Adolescence to adult lessons, who really cares about any message?

(No one!)

No one cares about feelings or how you’re feeling, getting high like every

second

I write music with meaning for people that need it

Don’t need your approval, in fact you can keep it (Yeah)

Don’t need any blog or recognition

I felt the victory way before the vision (Yeah)

I believed in myself when nobody would

I stood in a place where nobody stood

Don’t act like you know me even if you did, everyday is another book

They say it’s all in due time, well ain’t it funny how it’s over due?

So ahead of my time, every goal I set is a déjà vu

Yeah

Tour bus, I’ma load that

Dope lines only time when I roll back

Gotta come to the bay where it’s all at

Everybody got a dream but they sell that, yeah

No one got it, no one never did

All I ever wanna do is live

Every diamond that I get, I did it for the ones living delicate

I said

No one got it, no one never did

All I ever wanna do is live

Every diamond that I get, I got it from the pressure of keeping it in

Exhale