The Dope Boyz - Pieces of My Life lyrics

[Intro] Everyboy got a story man, this is mine [Verse 1] See I been walking on this tightrope, feeling like it's life or d**h Music is my life though, all I need's a quiet set To go under those headphones, write a couple rhymes and vent Only time I feel like I've actually got my mind in check Listen to music til I was losing all my sense of stress Everything just melts away, my problems went ahead and left Tapped into my brain and now it's working like Professor X Got some rapping superpowers, never give the pen a rest Grew up bumping DMX, Eminem, and Red & Meth Ludacris and Tip brought the south up to Connecticut Back when Wu-Tang was telling people to protect they neck When I discovered rap, and I ain't left it yet I was just a crazy kid, just tryna find my way Now these people listen what I look into the mic and say Now it's flipped around cause I'm the music that these kids will play Just like how I was bumping Big and Dre, sh** how crazy is that [Hook] Started out as just a kid who could rap But now it's gotten so much bigger than that Now that I got it ain't no giving it back So now it's time to take my victory lap Since I started knew my life would be different Cause it's my dream and I've been dying to live it I've been out here paying dues But you know that's just the price of admission So just appreciate these pieces of my life when I spit it [Verse 2] Yeah this music is my lifeline, use it as a getaway Since I first started really learning in seventh grade Wrote the words to "Renegade", Em and Jay, on the wall of my college room So I would look up to it every day I've been on that sh**, making records, rehearsing And now it's time for the Wizard to go and step from the curtain I shed my, blood and my tears and all of my sweat from the working I spent all of my younger years tryna' perfect what I turn in To be listened to and critiqued by anybody who's surfing the internet But remember I'm a regular person Whose parents bought him CD's, and they would check for the cursing So I was stuck listening to The Chronic Edited Version Til I took em both aside, said mommy you gotta see This hip-hop sh** is me, and it's always gonna be And now all these years later and they truly believe That this the life I was meant to lead, real sh** [Hook] [Outro] You know for a true artist, someone who really cares about what they do There's nothing that comes before the music Cause the music, in essence, is really just an extension of that person It doesn't matter what color you are, where you come from, what religion you look to during hard times, good music is good music And it's easy to get sidetracked by the money and the women And everything else that comes along with fame But I'm in this for the music, at the end of the day this is my dream You know, making music is therapy for me And I'll never let anything get in the way of that, never