Joell Ortiz - Cheers From The Crowd lyrics

rate me

I don't need the cheers from the crowd

To make me feel big, to make me stand proud

I ain't trying to make you feel sorry

Or burden y'all with the struggling story of me and my mommy

I'm just talking so pardon me

I'm my personal therapeutic session

Lugging that trumpet to music lessons but never tootin' my own horn

The clothes that I threw on was wrong

Shoes worn, pants short, shirt too long, come on

Enough of the jokes, ain't I your boy? Then why y'all clowning on me?

You don't see the girls laughing at me, why y'all wildin' on me?

Sounds cliché but my life was rough

I hated when moms told me to walk ahead ‘cause that means she was behind me buying that stuff

Fast forward, I'm supplying that stuff, dodging the iron cuffs

Mask over my face like "open the safe or I will bust"

But that's over, God shined his light

Every rhyme I write is for my homies behind the wall that's forced to fly a kite

For my homies not here at all, up in the sky with night

Stepping through heaven, reppin', they checking my thoughts when I cry at night

Damn

I don't need no cheers from the crowd

To make me feel bigger, to make me stand out, out

‘Cause you see all the people that's with me

But I'm for my city and I make it feel proud, proud

I do this for more than me, many people surround my story

I'm like a toddler's fingers, man, everyone's counting on me

It's cool though ‘cause I already made it if you look back

To the dark times, I took that to Tina crib and shook that

Mayonnaise jar with baking soda in there as it cooked crack

Gave away all them samples like people who clear a good track

Out in front of 340, .40 tucked in the leather

While I guzzle the 40 ounce yelling "40 I 5 and better"

Fast forward, the finest leather seats recline

I let the roof down despite the weather, still chilly, I'm hype

I never thought things that I write would ever get my puzzled life together

This talent, it bailed me out, been in trouble for like forever

So trust me, man, I'm no better than you

I'm just extra clever, words sever every letter my competitors spew

And I'm thankful that God showed me what I was destined to do

I rescued my family and I'm going back for the rest of my crew

My word

I don't need no cheers from the crowd

To make me feel bigger, to make me stand out, out

‘Cause you see all the people that's with me

But I'm for my city and I make it feel proud, proud

The streets already know

Riding through my city so they with me, yo

Don't say I don't put on

Don't say I don't put on

The streets already know

Riding through my city so they with me, yo

Don't say I don't put on

Don't say I don't put on

Man, I look from off these stages amazed at how many came

And the screaming, the yelling, heads that be nodding, hands that be raised

It wasn't long ago I stood on them corners with wrinkled pages

In my back pocket, flaming a cypher until they gave in

Like "imagine if this rappin' shit happen"

Like "yo, imagine if this rappin' shit happen"

Just the other day I was dreaming my condo looked at Manhattan

Pinched myself and not a damn thing happened

I don't need no cheers from the crowd

To make me feel bigger, to make me stand out, out

‘Cause you see all the people that's with me

But I'm for my city and I make it feel proud, proud