[Intro: Drake talking]
Yea...i remember me and me and d used to talk about this stuff all the time, like what its gon be like when you get close to your dreams. I aint know much then, but i could probly tell you a lil somethin now


Mr. Big. Dreams no tolerant
Cut you off at the house and hadnt hollered since
Get bored quickly

He stay grown
So the p-a-trón 'bout to get poured quickly
Ex girl strippin, I can't stop her

New girl trippin but I can't drop her
Cuz I need somethin to balance out the fact
That it's hard to find a woman when you talented and black

When you hollerin at labels
And they silencing you back
Cuz you fail to thoroughly discuss some violence on ya track

Well, gunshots for the young yacht owner
Seens there's everybody else,then there's one top loner
First place is often the worst place

But $#&@ it I love it here I call it my birthplace
Whenever I walk in they makin the worst face
Surrounded by Filipinos I think of the worst case

watch blown, green diamonds I call it the earth face
Im gettin ya cake I tell u how your dessert tastes
I get a dessert plate, yall eat pedigree as ya meal

I been Urkel for some years
It's better being Jaleel
Though I rock, lean, snap

It's better bein as real
It's better drivin a car with the letter "B" in the wheel
Seat back, light sayin Tank on E

I got the drank on me
You can bank on me
To be the one and only ^!$$% dat you ain' gon see

In the club wit da models spillin drinks on me
Nawh, gimme 20 and a tank on three
I'm in the Range bumpin Keyshia Cole singin off-key like (wuhhh)

I'ma spare yall, why you wanna judge me?
I don't neva compare yall
The city is mine

I know it cuz I'm there yall
It ain't even started I'm really tryna prepare yall
SPring '07, second quarter I'm droppin

With or without a label, man I'm committed to poppin
Take ova da summer, tour to tour hoppin
I'ma meet a lot a women, I'ma do a lot of shoppin

Really no other option
Spend a lot a money just to make it back
Anybody I diss in a song I don't take it back

Same rappers that's all in your face sayin Drake is whack
Be checkin my availability just to make a track
I promise mama, I'ma do it cuz I kno I put you through it

I know I put you through it baby
And I just want you to sit around wit ya friends at a dinner table
And say my baby's famous and i knew it

And it wasn't nuttin to it
I'm drawing the drawing til da pen run out of fluid



[Drake: Talking]
Yeah

I'd like to introduce you to the first lady of the ATF

[Singing:]

Closer to my dreams (Miss Andrina Mill)
I'm gettin' higher
Yeah (Yeah man)

I feel it in my sleep (Sing it to 'em baby)
I said I'm gettin' higher
Yeah

And closer to my dreams
Whoa
Sometimes it feels like I'll never move on

Closer to my dreams

[Verse 2:]

Look
I took a plane to Hawaii with D
And we was trippin' off of the speed at which life progress
From meetin' Trey in Atlanta to doin' a cameo in his video has made everything right with ex (Songz)
I got too many records and not enough shows

Too many rappers and not enough-
Well...
You can fill the blank in
They tryna be the best
Just tryna place in the rankin'

They can't
Play pen drop out
The grade ten drop out
Summer 05 with the gray Benz drop out
Charcoal charger

Racin' through back streets
On my Craig David %#@! the Artful Dodger
Shola Ama,
I told her I'mma
Bout to get my run-on so hold the commas

Times changed now I'm older mama
And these ^!$$%s ain't solid they fold in drama
And that's the realest %#@! I ever wrote
A compilation of mental thoughts that I never note
And hi, haters
I'm back off of hiatus

How ya album doin'?
I'm gettin' cake off of my latest
Anticipated like the iPhone
Respected in any city that I roam
Summertime
Wintertime
Dinnertime

Anytime
Bet I am the ^!$$% in my town when I arrive
Home

[Chorus]



[Outro: Drake talking]