Intro - Rittz

Dear Lord, thank you for letting me be here to see another day again

I’m grateful to be alive, God bless the souls that came and went

I’m so lucky to have a good family that loves me

Please let my girl know how much I love her

Sorry that we’re both so unhealthy

I feel so guilty

Every time I pray I feel like I ask you to help me

I don’t pray with the hopes to get wealthy

I just want success

I know it sounds selfish

I’ve always been a screw up

I finally got the chance to fix it

I signed a record deal after all these years

I wish I was more optimistic,

I’m really just scared

What if they don’t like what they hear?

What if I don’t make a career out of music?

What am I supposed to do then?

I’m always getting judged

I hate to see my face in the mirror

And I wrote about everything so many times

I don’t have inspiration to spare

I’m barely even here

I’ve been down on the road

And I feel like I’ve been gone all year

Even when I’m home there’s so much pressure to be Rittz

It’s hard to feel like I’m all there

So many wish they could rap for a living

So complain about it’s unfair

Some days I feel like I’ve been living in a dream

Other times feeling like a nightmare

And I need some ideas

'Cause I have a bunch of songs to write

And I’m feeling like my future all depends on this

Gotta rid myself of mirror plus these censorship

Gotta get some confidence up in my penmanship

And I don’t wanna disappoint the fans who listening

'Cause they expecting something incredible in the end

Without them I’m nothing as I regain to get my strive back

I remember when I was a kid and my dad—he would teach me how to play the guitar

Me and my brother would pretend that we was in a band

Musicians in my family would dream to be stars

Only to condensate something that you didn’t attend

That must’ve been playing

I’m the chosen one

So I’m a go tripping and get behind this mic and rhyme

Amen,

Slumerican

Strange music

The life and times of Johnny Valiant