Statik Selektah - Destined to Shine lyrics

[Intro] Waiting for my moment Waiting for my moment, I was destined to shine Waiting for my moment I was destined to shine Shine [Verse 1] Feeling the pain I went through just make me want it I would've had a studio but I just can't afford it Days rapping on the answering machine tape recorder Searching for change for the jukebox saving quarters I fell in love with the game at a young age Thinking that I might be as good as Jay one day I'm looking past all the attempts to ruin my perception I would ask 'em what I did, but who am I to question I'm still standing in the booth, I knew that I was destined Shout out to Destined though, this my destiny Measure the spoon for greatness, gotta put me in the recipe You best believe my efforts be effortless but the best of me Is what you're gettin' every single time that you get to me Usually settled, but heard a miracle's near and see I'm working music medical, words are lyrical therapy So here it be, I never mute it, my music is therapeutic I do this for the teachers and the tutors The parents and the students From geekiest to the coolest To the girls that be the rudest This is all y'all music Sick flow, cough cough cough, hall flu sh** Now you need a hall pa** I'm as off the wall as NFL Street when you throw an off the wall pa** And it look like I'm playing in large pads Jet 2 blast off, now I need a launch pad Waiting on the moments that my flow will probably launch And I can prove the judges and perception k**ers wrong And even out the odds and get my back up off the wall, damn And you can tell that I go through a lot But I just hear 'em tell me, "Jet 2, I told you to stop." But quitting's hard when you're halfway on the road to the top And they just hope you would drop Bumpin' India. Arie feelin' cool like How can I live one day without music Really can't sing, but I'mma try until I learn it though I'mma make sure in every way that you heard my soul 'Cause I can hide behind the smiles, but I'm hurtin' though I'm hot-headed, winter coat, spittin' furnace flow Tryin' to stack a bunch of cake, but I ain't tryin' to burn the dough I ain't tryin' to burn it though 'Cause I ain't learned to cook, but ain't nobody perfect though I guess the audience is first to know I never open up to anything until the verse is closed Meaning that you'll never see me open up in person Unless I close my guard down and spoke a couple verses But the verses that I speak are never spoken up in person I'm kind of dealing with a holy war, a couple curses But I'm destined to be victorious when I emerge 'em I never quit, I guess I'm just a heaven of a person I slip a few, but get an extra seven from the first one But they don't understand me though They just wanna see him break, they just get mad he don't Sad the only thing that they remember from this man is quotes That's all he got, so stopping, just understand he won't To make a long story short, I'm just (Waiting for my moment, I was destined to shine) I'm just I'm just (waiting for my moment, I was destined to shine)