"To know what you want, to understand why you’re doing it, to dedicate every breathe in your body to achieve. If you feel you have something to give, if you feel that your particular talent is worth developing or is worth caring for, then there is nothing you can’t achieve. You’re going to grow up with your colleagues. You’re going to watch them have success and watch them have failure and you’re going to watch how they deal with it. And they can be as much as teacher for you, as anybody in here.."
Mayze..
Dedicated, Dedicated
This is dedication
As I spit these verses, I try to give it a purpose
Try to write the right rhymes, right now listen
Don't know where I'm headed, I'm just doing whatever
And I pray, I pray that I'm on the right direction
Nothing is perfect
Still I put my work in, to get close to its surface
I deserve respect, and I'mma take it
Give me props, put me on that A-List
If they hate, then let em, I'm remaining
In the game, cuz marijuana is the only I'm faded
It sounds better, when the lyrics from the heart
I won't stop, any time, soon cuz of how I feel
I'm dedicated to this art
My presence is a present, not regretting
Anything that affected my present
Cuz it made who I am and I'm living
Living in the land where everybody be sinning
Still doing the right thing, and you can hear the realness in this sentences
While they was getting sentences, for life up in prison
I was there thinking, about the negatives in the life, reminiscing
On the past, while I was kicking it
As I lay back and put 2Pac on the speakers
I let my thoughts float and drift away and now I see it clearer
I stand up, and I take a glance at the mirror
To figure who I really am and why I never hear a
Response to my prayers, nothing phases me
God is the only thing I'll ever have a fear of
I wonder why the best of people
Take one fall, and quick turn to evil
I need you, to recognize how I feel
Stare inside my eyes, and tell me I'm real
They say don't sleep, go complete your mission
They say to chase your dreams, what a contradiction
And You act like you been through shit, and you keep on wishing
For a better life but god has given, you so much blessings
Ill never understand, why I get up and dress in designer brands
While other kids are dying and just damn
Ill never grasp it...You just wanna have sex, I know you don't love her
And you hate your pops cuz he left your momma
When you was so young, and you never saw him
And you promised that you would be better father
Til' the rubba broke, and now you really got a
Kid in your hand, you gon' stay and provide?
Or leave him behind?
And I analyse life of my sisters and my brothers
Why they gotta lie to gain acceptance of others?
Why do we kill, we know its evil?
Why we gotta lie, when that shit is see through?
Why we gotta rob, and go steal from our people, our own people?
Being peaceful, is just a stupid lie
Trust me, when I wrote this, I was in the studio at night
Tryna make a record that would be a hit
Then I listened to it, and saw I wasn't even saying shit
But the beat is banging, the chorus was way more than sick
But I know I'm doper, I'm a poet, so now I'mma open my soul
And you can accept, it don't matter
Yo I'm tryna change the pattern
Of the way people are doing this music, its useless
If everyone is the same, I'm really tryna go and change
I'm dedicated
I'm dedicated
They better say
Mayze is the greatest of our generation
To do it, and he's making...history
That's all I wanna do
Spending every single minute in booth
How the hell are you gonna tell me reach for the sky
When I know I can land on the moon
I put my life in these songs, feel the pain in my poems
As I right all my wrongs
Its like an adrenaline rush to my brain
Everytime I pick up a pen to write
Cuz these thoughts are in a cage
So I gotta hack into my mind
Find the perfect words to paint this picture
Mona Lisa my design
And I'm grinding to go and make it
Tell the stories of those never made it
I'm dedicated...I'm dedicated
Forever remaining, never will be faded
This is dedication
