SHINE

[Intro: IMYOUNGWORLD]

(Trilogy)

Yeah, uh

It's WORLD, uh

[Verse 1: IMYOUNGWORLD]

Fresh out the 'Ville, I had to still prove a lot to them

Coming from a family like my pops and 'em

I was always like the underdog, it took a lot to win

Couldn't even count how many niggas want the spot I'm in, yeah

I paint pictures with my pen, that's a point of view

To make you understand the life that I was born into

What's the angle that you taking? Yeah, I'm on to you

Look good but rough around the edges like a quarter do

This popping shit is dangerous, it come with being famous

I'm a figure for the young niggas, watch how I'm behaving

The friends you see me with the same dawgs that I came with

Don't ever let 'em come around me just to be hanging

You're taking me there, I smell the hate in the air

Faces is blue, and this money, watch how it hang in the air

They wanna get what I got, but they don't do what I do

Niggas be talking the most, only if you really knew

It's WORLD

[Chorus: IMYOUNGWORLD]

Every star don't shine at night

But I'm me, so I'm shining bright (I'm shining bright)

It was hard, but that's part of life

I stayed patient 'til the time was right

We gon' shine

We gon' shine forever, so we might as well shine together

We gon' shine

Long as we sticking together, I'll stay down 'til we get to the better (Uh, uh)

[Verse 2: IMYOUNGWORLD]

Yeah, like quarantine, I keep my proper distance, money talk, I'm politickin'

Mama thought that I would be a preacher or a politician

Niggas, they don't make it here coming from where I'm beginning

Thank God and everybody else that I forgot to mention

Speaking on my name, no, the family ain't playing that

This is what it is, I made the bed, I gotta lay in that

It's lonely at the top, and if it is, then I'm okay with that

Love from some people that ain't say it back

Try it now, I'm laying back

Suburban kids, so I guess I was conflicted

The hometown hero, but my family was the villains

I grew up with the shooters, was surrounded by the dealin'

And didn't even know it 'til my father was convicted

Was telling all my friends that he went away for business

'Cause I know they can't relate seeing daddy in the prison

I'm the first one that wasn't caught up in the system

I'm already half blind, this is messing up the vision

[Chorus: IMYOUNGWORLD & Benny the Butcher]

Every star don't shine at night

But I'm me, so I'm shining bright (I'm shining bright)

It was hard, but that's part of life

I stayed patient 'til the time was right

We gon' shine (Ah)

We gon' shine forever (Yeah), so we might as well shine together (We might as well)

We gon' shine (We gon' do this shit 'til the clock stop)

Long as we sticking together, I'll stay down 'til we get to the better

[Verse 3: Benny the Butcher & IMYOUNGWORLD]

Uh, I'm him, put that on everything

It's crazy, niggas won't let me breathe

Mama told me, "That crown get heavy, king"

'Fore they found me, flow was already mean

In my city, it's hard to stay grounded when you shining like LEDs

True rhyme cyphers, but who rhyme nicer?

I heard they hate on BSF because they crew not like us

I came up talking white like a true Don Imus

Then walked out with the booth on fire

I hate the way that they move

I had to dodge every angle they threw

With no advance or major label debut

God work in mysterious ways, I buy luxurious things

Thugging on Ledger, cover my chest in Amiri and chains

There's certain times you know you up there with the greats

I took a block and built a pyramid there in a day, yeah

Me and my man WORLD livin', shining so bright

And ten girls grabbing my nuts 'cause this a man's world, uh

[Chorus: IMYOUNGWORLD]

Every star don't shine at night

But I'm me, so I'm shining bright (I'm shining bright)

It was hard, but that's part of life

I stayed patient 'til the time was right

We gon' shine

We gon' shine forever, so we might as well shine together

We gon' shine

Long as we sticking together, I'll stay down 'til we get to the better