[Verse 1: Ausar]
How you been poster child?
Admit it, you've been posted up, but you haven't kept us posted in a while
What can I say man life is wild
Pop up in a function and its--
Where you been at?
Conversations steer around me, like a course of cones
Of course I'm prone to bitter hold discussion towards a plusher tone
Keep it light-hearted, hardy laughter fill the room but not the void
Every catchup feeling like a ploy deployed to catch me, to ask me how we filling up the stat sheet
Shoot, well if you know you got me
Been putting in the work I just been asking god to match me
And now they see me as the poster child
Yeah, guess they see me as the poster child
[Verse 2: Ausar]
I'm becoming a person that my homies used to know
And they stories told years down the line about how we grew up in the same neighborhood or took buses at the same time
We used to hoop together, he got hang time
But yeah I used to know him, think that's my cousin's cousin, so we practically related we just never had discussions
It's taken some adjustments, but Nikki saw it coming
I'm just running in the ground he laid for me while I was budding
Living all the prayers that he told me I'd be running
The literary juggernaut he planned on me becoming
So failure not an option, even setbacks hard to stomach
When your appetite for greatness make the meals seem up and coming
'Cause I want to be the poster child
Wow, I just want to be the poster child
[Chorus: Dende]
I know we all tried
I can't wait for my time
To stand in the limelight
I pray that I'm gon' shine
Yeah, I know we all tried
I can't wait for my time
To stand in the limelight
I prayed that I'm gon' shine, gon' shine
[Verse 3: Ausar]
I've seen this once before in my incubation, adjacent to my--
Growing amazement, was syncopation, another star was being birthed in the nearer constellation
I happened to hear the sound of them breaking pavement one day
In my seventh grade class was a kid I had some bouts with, mostly amounted to counts of me being unsure
We jousted over bravado I dealt, 'cause I couldn't swallow my pride
He joking with me but can't take it in stride
His name Taylor, and one day at the lunch tables, the cypher it opened up and I listened but wouldn't say nothing
They don't know that I don't rap, and it wasn't my space to take up
But Taylor he start freestyling and suddenly picked the pace up
That boy nice and I heard that his brother write
Checked em' out, they was right
Few years later he dropped a tape called "10 Day" and it changed his life
So if he can do it why can't I?
[Chorus: Dende]
I know we all tried
I can't wait for my time
To stand in the limelight
I pray that I'm gon' shine
Yeah, I know we all tried
I can't wait for my time
To stand in the limelight
I prayed that I'm gon' shine, gon' shine
[Choir Interlude]
[Verse 4: Ausar]
Funny how life work, I'm in college now
Communications notes that I'm jotting down and my phone flash
I dash to the door, it's a call about a show called Rhythm and Flow
I put my application in a week ago
They tell me they want me on it, I'm thinking that means we on
I'm at the crib rehearsing, I got Will on speaker phone
I was certain this would put me on the throne when talking ranks
Got to the audition I was the first to hit the stage
Chance was there to judge it what a funny show of fate
Short regards, move retort, moving on, died
I did not advance but the movement caused strides
Far and wide approval, let it dream, we compromise
Onto maneuvers that would bring us towards this proof of enterprise
Proving prudent through improvements just the fate in which I rooted up by letting go of dreams that I fought for many times
Doused and minimized as we quickly grew to shrine
Through and through we shine
Was on a Wyclef album, biggest worry was getting to my 8AM on time
I still relish the time
Back at home I stock up, proof of all the work that me and Rodent had to stock up
Doing city pop ups, But nothing like the crib, one of my biggest fears is, once you make it big, you start to hit a ceiling
And so you gotta live, your journey in your place that made you fall into your bill
Just to break your seal, but the goal's to change the culture so I'
D rather do it here
[Chorus: Ausar & Dende]
I know we all tried
I can't wait for my time
To stand in the limelight
I pray that I'm gon' shine
Yeah, I know we all tried
I can't wait for my time
To stand in the limelight
I prayed that I'm gon' shine, gon' shine
[Refrain: Selah St. Sabina Youth Choir of Chicago]
Your time
My time
Shine
Shine
[Outro]
Time to wake up!
Time to make that baggy!
Time to make it do what it do!
Time to do it!
Lets go!
Lets work!
