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Rap and Ball 2.0 Lyrics by Timothy Welbeck

No City for Young Men

2017

Verse 1
I live in the concrete jungle, reared in the suburban wilderness/I observe in bewilderment how absurd our children live in both/They’re all betrothed to the sickening hope/They distribute rock or get a wicked shot to the pros/The plot then unfolds/They don’t want to be a doctor no more/Unless they’re Dr. Dre doctoring beats and rocking the flow/Or Dr. J rocking ‘fros before he rocks on the court/It’s like the only option they know, it’s gotten so old/Yeezy told ‘em, “[T]he system’s broken, the schools is closed, the prisons open”/Part of the reason why is because our boys isn’t focused/They want to dribble a ball, be Lebron James/Or keep on rapping until they get some Big Sean fame/They can be more than that/And it goes beyond saying, but even our girls want to go the route Beyoncé went/If were more supportive of our sons and our daughters/They would be architects, engineers, and lawyers/They would be preachers and teachers the days that they grow up/They would be entrepreneurs, someone’s employer/But we’re not, so they want that celebrity path/But Chris Rock lives next to a dentist, you do the math/It’s 467 players in the NBA/About four times that in the NFL/If we teach our kids other ways in which they can be great/Tell ‘em pray and work hard, then they’ll excel
Hook
But they want to rap and play ball, ball and play rap/Make they’re way out the trap, put their ‘burb on the map (repeat 3x)/The want to rap and play ball, rap and play ball, rap and play ball
Verse 2
I know the irony of rhyming me saying you shouldn’t be aspiring/To be a rapper when I’m rapping, but look I am me/I went to school twice, I left with my degrees/And if I never rap again, I know I can teach/ I know I represent, I know I can lead/But when I choose to rap, I put fire on beats/I inspire these seeds not to die in these streets/To put their faith in Christ, that’s all they’ll need/But in the interim, I just want to mentor them/And keep them away from the evil that tries to enter them/In the interim, I just want to mentor them/And keep them away from the evil that tries to enters them
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Interlude
I wanted to be a Rhodes Scholar like my hero Bill Bradley. If he did it, I want to try and do it as well. And so, three years later, I was fortunate to earn that scholarship. Then, I went to see my teachers and academic advisors at FSU and tell them that I want you guys to help increase my intellectual capital so one day I can be an outstanding pediatric neurosurgeon, like another one of my influences, Dr. Ben Carson. Now, I’m a second year medical student hopefully able to do that in the future. And lastly, I went to my strength coaches and my athletic trainers and my football coaches, Bobby Bowden 6 included, and told them that I want them to equip my body 7 and get me ready for a career as a national football player. And fortunately, I was able to be drafted by the Titans and play for the Steelers as well
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Credits
Timothy Welbeck

Timothy Welbeck

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