Video A Kid With An Atlas de Akinyemi 2025 Lyrics Lyrics

Akinyemi - A Kid With An Atlas Lyrics

Tell me about a time in your life that you dodging advice
Making decisions aligned with a price
Tying your goals in a bow on a kite
Throwing a line in a pond, till it bite

Tell me about a time in your life where you
Riding along, cause you thought you were right
Honking the horn, if they slow on the road
Roll up the green, while you stopped at a light

Been the only one in my family
Taking this path, and it’s more than I planned to be
I fill the role of provider
Enrolled in the school of the trauma it brought us

Rap in the journal, discarded and ball up
80s & 90s, the music I’m brought up
I’m one of three sons, and the oldest the daughter
She hit my phone if I get ever caught up

What’s up?
Gotta stay focused
That door ain’t open
It ain’t chosen for you

I kick the door down, I was done waiting
I took the U turn on that one-way
I need the headline of that frontpage
I take the long shot, I can’t pump fake
I can’t take this trip dodging holes in the road
Way I work I just slow the approach
Change your habits, fix more than your nose
More than average, I just harbor the growth

I wake up early and practice my grammar
Minus degree, and my story still add up
Circling cities, a kid with an atlas
I ran from distraction, I'm talking bout practice

Kids need a mentor, I never did have
I grew up throwing my fears in the trash
I learned the methods and I never did slack
When I be upset, I connect with my past

How I did grow from this moment, I'm living in currently
I put a band-aid on injuries third-degree
I was 13, I was called into surgery
They put me under
And said it was urgent
Humor was missing, it slowly occured to me
Laughing was my only way to address

A scar on my right arm, was left
Three hours later, I rose with a breath
I'm talking crazy like pulling from wisdom
I know these decisions, is grazing my death
What’s up?
Gotta stay focused
That door ain’t open
It ain’t chosen for you

I kick the door down, I was done waiting
I took the U turn on that one-way
I need the headline of that frontpage
I take the long shot, I can’t pump fake

I can’t take this trip dodging holes in the road
Way I work I just slow the approach
Change your habits, fix more than your nose
More than average, I just harbor the growth