Long Story Short
• Written by Kalligraphy
2009 I arrived, and 15 years later I’m grateful I’m on top
Watching all these smaller artists go and drop
The larger getting popped and then getting dropped
What kind a world are we living in
When a cop keeps firing after the man says to stop
But this is a problem that I see today
In really small rappers head nowadays
It’s a fast route to the bottom it don’t matter how far
You standing on the top but it’ll get lonely up there
So you start about thinking how to pop off this year
Thinking about dissing your own fans
When they keep you stabled in your life little man
Listen closely to my words I’m trying to preserve you
This is not a diss this is just a couple words for you
How gonna act when you lose it all?
Start acting friendly and then back to being an ass an all?
You wanna have fun in these 4 walls
But keep and I on em cuz they could fall
And when your channel dies you’ll be looking at this song like damn this brotha told no lies
Listen loved ones let me talk wit ya
Let me see if I can’t paint for you a large picture
But that’s ok, some people only think for themselves
But damn, listen to this story imma tell
About a young artist who thought they was way the top and fell
He thought he a strong core following
Then the trends stop and the system done swallowed him
Couple years go by and now he’s irrelevant
3 years ago his ego was larger than an elephant
Not saying I’m the only one that’s elegant
But if you keep riding trends, braking your amends
You gonna get thrown away to the wolves I bet
I hope you don’t go down the bad path
Cuz rappers like me who are only 15 with screw you off the top like bottle caps
Where we at?
Keep them weak as rhymes in a different time frame
So when I wanna listen I do there no ABABA rhymes
Mess with me you’ll get shaking like turbulence and a plane
I ain’t playing, keep saying lame shit
I’ll have your rap career gon in about 8 minutes
This my final verse honey
Cuz, everything around me is ruled by the money
Doing what others do isn’t cool til you get money
I mean fam, this shit ain’t funny
You treat Kanye West like a false idol
And that’s a sin so you better not play vital
Or you’ll diminish your chance of ever going viral
Imma just put you in a vial
The fans want you to keep making music
But if use it wrong and abuse it
I’ll be the first to say you need to part from it
Cuz in the end I don’t wanna see you plummet
I was here when you just flat out started
Don’t ruin the stuff you built by acting like your off narcotics
Like I said before it’s a faster route to the bottom
Of you don’t wanna end up like Gammorrah or Sodom
You need to stop acting fucking ballistic on yourself
Trust me, it could be narcissistic to worship yourself