Still Standin' - Rasheed Chappell, Apollo Brown

Yeah, it’s my life

It’s my story, I put it to song

They want the bright lights, but these are dark shadows

(1: Rasheed Chappel)

It started in Dane’s basement, spittin' my little rhymes

And niggas laughed at me, and niggas clowned on me

In due time, they gon' put the crown on me

Give you the early years, call it my right to passage

It defined my purpose, refined my passion

My life’s work, written in every word

Every sentence bears resemblance, to every curb

That I stood and watched, and engaged in cyphers

Then was off to work, my baby needed diapers

Was seventeen, carried the world’s weight

I got a second coming, another court date

And my mother’s sitting, behind a prison wall

My pop’s high, and he no help at all

I was the breadwinner, I had to make a way

And them niggas that laughed, I’ma make them pay

And now the world 'gon hear, what I have to say

(Rasheed Chappel)

I’m still standin' here (Still standin', still standin')

By myself

(2: Rasheed Chappel)

And all I wanted was love and recognition

My picture in Record City and niggas saying we did it

Nigas saying we made it, my nigga congratulations

But fuck it, I never got it, my home never forgotten

Live, write and record it, on stage vivid performance

Crowds, cheering applauding, on cell phones recording

I took the pain and put it inside the music

The music was therapeutic, I’m just airing my heart

I took the burden, I went the furthest, I bear the scar

But scrutinized and crucified to give you art

I just think it and ink it and as I jot it down

I get to thinking, it sinks in, I made it out

Instead of broke, it was moulded, I became a king

Instead of folding was chosen, I bear the wings

To take flight and spread life, my name rings

Was given nothing but I give you my everything

(Hook)

(Rasheed Chappel)

Apollo Brown, Rasheed Chappel

Still standin'

Forever