I use “The Basement” as a way to describe being unknown in the rap world.

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His girl acts wild (Miley) but he needs a good girl (Jennette)

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Girls at my school don’t even listen to my stuff but ask me to write em a song

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Forget that fake stuff brotha!

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This verse idea wasn’t derived from the previous 2012 version, unlike the hook and the 1st verse, this is basically a timeline of my career so far, it’s my favorite verse on the song.

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Like the hook, this verse was similar to it’s original incarnation, the topic is how I got into rap music, the original goes like
“When I was little
Never had dreams of a career rhymes and riddles
I was dribbling with spit thinking my career was to dribble
Never thought I was getting big off what I would scribble
But then I got a little older
Reality check
I wasn’t the best hooper so which reality’s next
I started rapping for fun never knew it was the one
Actually when I would write
I thought everything was right
Now I look back and laugh
I thought that stuff would go up on the mic
But now I’m writing with a conscious mind
Constant lines run through
My head when I’m tryna go to bed
Wake up the next trying to remember everything that I said
Try to make it fit in to the uncompleted rhymes I had written
Never thought people would like what I was spitting
Have dreams of releasing classics like
Black on Both Sides and It Was Written
Feel like a super hero
Unlike Spider-Man this was God-Given
No need to be bitten”

I changed it because
A. It didn’t flow right
B. Too basic
C. I wanted to focus it more around the main idea

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“On top of the world baby, on top of the world!”

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The skeleton of this hook (and track) has been around for two years, when I wrote it in 2012, it was
“How do you feel
Like I’m flying
Above Mt. Zion
Feeling so fly I can sleep on the sky and
Never had this feeling before I started writing
No need for weed
I’m musically high and
I will be remembered like Boone and the Titans
Mom never saw her son picking up the mic and
Never saw my social getting this heightened
This is rap is my life man”

I changed a few lines to improve it, and here it is.

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I’m feeling good because of the rap game

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Before rap, I never felt so good about myself.

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