What you gonna be when you grow up?
I'm all grown up and still don't know what
I mop throw up, I rock a tow truck

Long as it means that I can get old and post up
I used to be a typical winner
Living off the gratuity from delivering your dinner

Cause as a kid I didn't consider
That I would get the opportunity to be a full-time spitter
I love this occupation

I got bosses across the nation
Validation is an understatement
And I don't really know how to take a vacation

My kind don't have any free time
I'm so distracted, but everything's fine
I speak shine and I read signs

Appreciate your opinion, but this dream's mine
It's all love, we're cool
But you don't tell a cowboy what to do


I was the ugly kid that didn't listen
Little big man, full of ambition

Based on imagination just like you
Daydreaming, thinking about the things I might do
I used to paint, draw, illustrate

Mom would facilitate, and it would feel okay
Seems like yesterday still plays a part
When I grow up, I wanted a job making art

Picture that, how many years old
Young enough to mix up love with career goals
But I was just this tall when they told me

That the world was mine, but the papers weren't signed
There's no deed, so proceed to go see
Up the whole piece like it owes me groceries

Don't breathe until you formally know me
Won't leave, better call authorities
It's all love we're cool

But you don't tell an astronaut what to do

The turn tables stole my heart

Burnt the paintbrush, broke it apart
I miss it, I might revisit it
But I wasn't that good, I admit it

Maybe you can't tell but as I kid I wanted to be Melle Mel
And later as a teenager I wanted to be LL
Then I discovered weed and I wanted to be Del

And thank god eventually I found myself
It's funny when I bump into fools
I used to go to school with and they ask what I'm doing

Half of the time I wanna crack a lie
But $#&@ it, I'm still a wannabe rapper guy
Yeah I guess that it seems that way

I get to see the world, and it's decent pay
As long as somebody wanna see us play
I wake up every morning and I seize the day

It's all love we're cool
But you don't tell the president what to do