What you wanna be? What you wanna be?
What you wanna be? What you wanna be?
What you wanna be? What you wanna be?
What you wanna be? What you wanna be?
[Verse 1]
What you wanna be when you grow up
The places you wanna go
The paper you really need
No such thing as a f** up
All that you ever need
Positive energy
f** all your enemies
Back when 16 I was just a misfit
Used to roll blunts with white kids
Cigarette ash on my mattress
Never went to cla**es
Momma used to call like "n***a what's the address?"
"What's going on?"
"I hope you not up in the city with the bandits"
[Hook]
What you wanna be? What you wanna be?
What you wanna be? What you wanna be?
What you wanna be? What you wanna be?
What you wanna be? What you wanna be?
[Verse 2]
Then colleague came, the pressure unloading
Expectations, I'm losing my moment
They want me working at 25
Sell my youth for an empty prize
Next thing you know I'm 85 with no wife
Like what the f** is this
26 I'm supposed to have kid
When I'm 27th will I be a legend
Oooo 28 and now my car paid
22 I have to walk to school
Guess what, I got no fuel
Still wearing my dad shoes
As I walk over your morals like
[Bridge]
Oh what did you expect
What did you expect
You need to follow your roots
Oh you treat me like a mistake
Treat me like a mistake
'Cause I can't walk in your shoes
Oh what did you expect
What did you expect
You need to follow your roots
Oh you treat me like a mistake
Treat me like a mistake
'Cause I can't walk in your shoes
[Hook]
What you wanna be? What you wanna be?
What you wanna be? What you wanna be?
What you wanna be? What you wanna be?
What you wanna be? What you wanna be?
What you wanna be? What you wanna be?
What you wanna be? What you wanna be?
What you wanna be? What you wanna be?
What you wanna be? What you wanna be?