Manifest Destiny - Starlito, Y Lee

You do what you are

(You mean you are what you do)

No, I mean… you do what you are

You’re born with a gift

If not that, then you get good at something along the way

And what your good at, you don’t take for granted

You don’t betray it

(What if you do, betray your gift?)

Then you betray yourself

Don’t sell yourself short

That’s a short stroll from selling your soul

I recently found myself, it’s time to set some new goals

Forget some new clothes, Rolexes and gold, flexing for hoes

I’m talking about freeing ya mind 'bout time you let some shit go

Post traumatic stress since adolescence

I was at war with myself, but that was lessons

Those is blessings just to learn from my mistakes and live to tell it,

no confession

Able to make a stable living off my self expression, I’m guessing

My haters didn’t think I manifested

When I was trapped in the trap

Is how I planned an exit

Got to playing with weapons getting that weight off like I’m anorexic

On the other hand shit wasn’t right, so I left like I’m ambidextrous

I had places in Vegas, Phoenix, Atlanta, Texas

Heard people say I’m the greatest, a genius, and a legend

They say my insomnia comes from antidepressants

Voices telling me grind hard, don’t abandon your message

See the game don’t wait for no one

You do what you are

Whether you are on the top or the bottom 'long as you go get your dolla

I ain’t slept right in 14 years, I’m dead serious

Finally came face to face with my fears, praying in a mirror

Lot of times I just be thinking out loud that way I hear it

Lot of rap niggas really be cowards

I say they’re weird

Portraying and playing roles

Ain’t real as they appear

Really was in them streets so they feel this shit in they spirit

Shots fired, I was shooting and shooting back

Where they do that at?

Anywhere, anytime, call it on sight

Better keep ya gat

I was beefin' for 6 months straight

I ain’t even rap

Never left the Eastside neither

No sleep, swear it

Took a year to get my bankroll right

But never stopped grinding hard, petty, learned my lesson

Call it perfect timing

Nah, I’m not just rhyming

You see the game don’t wait for no one

You do what you are

Whether you are on the top or the bottom 'long as you go get your dolla