Masai - Momentum [tekst, tłumaczenie i interpretacja piosenki]

It's like once you make a decision to do something
You just gotta follow through
The hardest part is just, you know
Just to, to make that first, to make the first move
And then from there you just gotta go with that momentum

Once upon a time in a land of sin
A young man had a plan to win
So he stayed up all night long with a pad and a pen
And wrote words to the mandolin
And even though he never really knew what his chances is
To make it big and advance with this
He had to take a stance with this
Before the hunger inside ate him up like it's cancerous
So now you gotta answer this, should he say "fuck rap"
Sit back, and end up like his parents is?
Pops is on drugs, moms is all bugged
And being fucked up is a family biz
He looking in the mirror like it can't be him
His homeboys, nah, it can't be them
It can't be us, this can't be what family does
You fall down, gotta get back up
You can't give up, you gotta strive for something
It's gotta be a reason for the pain and suffering
Cause it ain't for nothing, ain't for show
I think I really got what it takes to blow
And even if I don't got the strength to know
But everyone around me says I'm ready to go
So I'm ready to roll, I'm ready to rock this
I want the real thing, so enough of the practice
I really gotta see what my plan of attack is
So I can attack this and hope I ain't doing it backwards
I'm trying to break through like the spring on the mattress
So lemme just see what happens, I got that
Momentum, who wanna roll wit him?
Who's a go-getter that's ready to go get em?
Who starts beats to the sound of the rhythm
With the drum before they even know what hit em?
Central Digit, damn what is this
Cause we be on the grind like it's nobody's business
But nobody gets us
A woman told me I was going to Hell last week
And I don't know who the bitch was
And I don't go around saying I sell drugs
But I be saying shit that nobody else does
I'm trying to help you but nobody helps us
And that's the reason we don't sell much, but guess what
You can criticize me til I'm sick of it
I mean we all pass judgement a little bit
Like when you see a pregnant girl with a cigarette
And you be thinking, damn, why's she so ignorant?
But did you ever think that she was really innocent?
Her man left her and now she need a little fix
Or she illiterate, tried to read the warning on the label
But wasn't able to get the gist of it
I put a twist on it, nobody's losing
If you still draw the same conclusions
You thought about it from a few points of views then
Now it should be less confusing, I got that
Momentum, feel like I flow venom
Just give me a beat, some free time, and them I'm
Back up on the track before you could forget him
So listen to the words as I spit em
Born in a prison, life in a cage
Watching time pass from the night to the day
Don't know where to go, but I might run away
In the land of the free, there's a price that I pay
Can't slow down, I got that momentum
Obstacles try and stop me, don't sweat em
Still fade away just like some old denim
But I won't disappear cause the pride won't let him
Not too bougie and not too stupid
Not too kind, but I'm not too ruthless
Not too smart for my own good, nor too dumb
Upstate New York, where the fuck I'm from
I said fuck the fun and went back to school
And now they can't like a brother can't act a fool
Like I forgot where I came from
How the fuck I forgot when I'm still right here in the same slum?
On the same street, with the same thugs
And the wind to my back but I ain't budge
Cause I ain't done
Got a chessboard full of pieces, my move, gotta make one (check)
Now the hard part's over
All I gotta do is follow through and wait til I'm older
So I can look back (yeah, I took that)
And handled everything like a soldier
Now I'm gone