"All I'll Ever Be" lyrics

I was raised in a place that was country as fuck
And back in them days
Me being me didn't get me no love
Back then I was a drunk
I had to build myself up
Being different was judged
And I been me from the jump

I quit everything I ever started except for this
Every doubt I overcame helped to make my name relevant
Musics zookeepers couldn't even tame this elephant
Eloquent with the flow... all I ever did was develop it

Shit...I don't just enjoy going from country top 40... to underground hip hop
I relish it
Hella sick... but criminally underrated
While shit talking got algorithms elevated

I don't fit in with the crowd
I'm too country for some
To hip hop for the rest... but
I damn sure ain't changing now
All I know how to be is me
And that's all I'll ever be

Sure I got a couple of plaques
But I ain't get in this for that
Sure I could go tit-for-tat with
Anybody talking smack
But when you started to rap
Because of a death...you ain't tryna go back
So I respect everybody
Even when the respect I get lacks

You can doubt it all you want
I aint ever chased a path
God made mine... that's why I'm built to last
If my musics changed lately
It's because I write what I live
You grow through what you go through
And I done went through some shit

I don't fit in with the crowd
I'm too country for some
To hip hop for the rest... but
I damn sure ain't changing now
All I know how to be is me
And that's all I'll ever be

If you coulda only seen them nights
I was fighting myself
Tryna find my way to heaven while walking through hell

Now I stand on my own. I don't need no one else
Lemme rephrase that... I need my family
For my sanity and maybe like two friends
And they sure ain't in the music industry
The rest... God bless...
But I'm take this forest and chop it down with a machete
Bring heavy equipment in...
And pave my own lane with the shit
And let you witness it
While I sip a fifth
Till I flip the scrip
Enough of this
Anyway. That felt good