Be Somebody (feat. Lupe Fiasco, Holly Brook & Tak)

Uh, MS, Lupe

You know, I'm a fan man, I'm a real fan (Gonna be somebody)

I feel real honored to be up in here, you

Know what I'm sayin'? (Gonna be someone)

They had to bring out the expensive

Mics for this one (Gonna be somebody)

You know what I'm sayin'? The seven-thousand-dollar headphones

For this one here, you know what I'm sayin'? (Gonna be someone)

Come on, talk to 'em

This is a story of them against us, win or lose

Forcin' your feet into someone else's shoes

Everybody's got somethin' to say, that we oughta live their way

What we're doin's not okay

In this world, everybody's got a chip on both sides of the neck

Got no respect, wait up a sec

You ever feel like the pressure's too much to take, too much weight?

Ladies and gentlemen

If anybody can hear me right now, please shout back

We're not the only ones feelin' so trapped

In a dream of somebody else, in fact

They got their heads full of some overblown scheme

Opportunity they missed back when they were sixteen

And all they wanna do is push you to be that

And all you wanna do is scream back

Gonna be somebody, for anybody tellin' me I can't, yeah

Gonna be someone, for anyone who told me I had no chance

Gonna be somebody, I'm tellin' you, the time has come like that

Gonna be someone, and maybe you'll get it when I'm finally done

We don't sleep to dream, we sleep to build stamina

Energy to do our thing, get your camera

'Cause this ride is about to begin

Sit down, and buckle it in, let me say it again

In this world, everybody's got a chip on both sides of the neck

Got no respect, wait up a sec

When I was young, they said the odds of makin' it were slim to none

Ladies and—, fuck it

I'm tired of them sayin' the dream you have doesn't exist

Tellin' you you're worthless, sayin' you should quit

Basically tellin' you that you'll never be shit

Really, they're pissed 'cause they'll never achieve

Some opportunity they missed back when they were sixteen

And all they wanna do is push you to be that

And all you wanna do is scream back

Uh, they gon' think you're crazy, mumblin' to yourself

In the basement all day, uh-uh-uhin' to yourself

My pops didn't dig it, was shovelin' to myself

My boys used to get it, they dug it because they felt

My undertakin' took me, I was makin' in my stealth

A wealth of rhymes of crazy, I would chuckle to myself (Haha)

Then they went into the mental Rolodex

See, I knew 'em by heart like a brain in my chest

And I took 'em to school where subjects was gettin' felt (Uh)

Books under my seat, notebook layin' on my desk

My teacher's like, "Mr. Jayco, yes?"

With all that knowledge, you ain't tryna go to college?

Be a lawyer or a doctor, get a whole lot of dollars?

Rather degrade women and glorify violence?

Well, the work that works for me might not work for you

No homework, I got work to do (Woo)

Gonna be somebody, for anybody tellin' me I can't, yeah

Gonna be someone, for anyone who told me I had no chance

Gonna be somebody, I'm tellin' you, the time has come like that

Gonna be someone, and maybe you'll get it when

I'm finally done (Uh, when I'm finally done)

Yeah, this one goes out

To those fantastic human beings that keep us down and hold us back

Who give us fuel for what we do

Thanks