“Success” - ©2024 Dom Jones feat. Trabolee

Dom Verse:
I wanna be famous
But it seems like I ain’t hit my wave yet
So I put the pedal to pavement
I wanna be grandiose
Building some wealth for my fam and folks
Let my mama get to brag and boast
I’m rolling up and down the 5 between home and dreams
Hope the team is focused on goals and cream
The lows just stoke the fire as it burns in me
And all the blood sweat and tears will be worth the fee
The tide will turn towards the high rise I earned
In life you learn the length from when you sow the seed
To harvest, the artist take a minute to blossom
Harness the gift even when it’s the hardest
‘Cause when I’m in the darkness, this here my catharsis
I hustle every single day so I fulfill my promise
They took one look at me and say there is no market
But Oakland girls hit different, I’ma hit my target, look

Chorus:
What is success?
Is it the fancy cars?
What is success?
Is it just rising up with your squad?
What is success?
And can we have it all?
Whatever it may be
I want it
Yeah I want it
Oh I

So…I went from gifted to consistent
I’ll make success be my Mrs not a mi-stress (
I’ll make it work even when Lady Luck she blow me kisses from a distance
It’s more than rap tryna speak it to existence
That’s how you stick it to the systems
That leave us victims and afflicted
When algorithms get it twisted : how we depict it ain’t on pinterest
They say my pigment ain’t the pinkest
But I pivot then I pick yes
Peace of mind make some interests
The steepest climb I can’t miss steps
You see the time that I invest
Dealing in lines I’m addicted
Feeling aligned leave the beat blessed
So give me dimes and the big cheques
You see me shine on the big stage
I seen the signs so I keep faith
Just free my mind and I’ll be there
Tra!

What is success?
Is it the fancy cars?
What is success?
Is it just rising up with your squad?
What is success?
And can we have it all?
Whatever it may be
I want it
Yeah I want it
Oh I

Bridge (Dom/Tra back and forth):
Pick of the litter considered a great
Enter the game and sit in my lane
They big up my name I figure the fame will come
Deliver amazing ones

My truth is embedded in picking the pain
Switching the frame Building a name
Looking to get it I seek and attain
Bringing the bag and i rake the bars

See I don’t play, seizing the day
It’s lit if you wit me I’m leading the way
Rip every lyric consistently spit it so viciously
Peep me coming and cave

I'm tipping the base gripping the page
Give em a taste
The people are pledging allegiance in grave detail
Forever commit to my vision with sense of self

But bigger than flow, I'm lifting my folks
Persist in resist and then kick in the door
For healing, for winning, for breaking glass ceilings
You wit me I’m wit you we winning the war

Even the battle
Whip and the saddle
Missing the babble
Peep the apparel
The Queen and A Pharaoh
Lead and They Follow
Even in struggle
It ain't a hustle

Ain’t feeling no pressure, ain’t feeling no stress
Say I ain’t made it, I tell ‘em not yet
Mark of high callings is reason to press
For starlight to fall on my dreams I invest
In me, focus is feeding the rest
Fiending for moments I see up ahead
Keeping them close got reason to flex
Believing in self til I reach my level

What is success?
Is it the fancy cars?
What is success?
Is it just rising up with your squad?
What is success?
And can we have it all?
Whatever it may be
I want it
Yeah I want it
Oh I