[00:00:00] There's Alot Going On - Vic Mensa [00:00:00] Written by:Victor Mensah/Alex "Papi Beatz" Baez/Darian Garcia/Kevin Rhomberg/Carter Lang/Peter CottonTale [00:00:02] Yeah this just my life [00:00:09] Front to back top to bottom [00:00:15] Everything's changing around me [00:00:18] These days don't feel the same [00:00:22] We all lost faith and lost family [00:00:26] Why must we play this game [00:00:29] Lord have mercy on me [00:00:33] I've been a sinning man [00:00:36] Pull out my wings jump off the bridge and crash in a plane [00:00:40] If I never land [00:00:42] Know I never die [00:00:48] We live forever in my mind [00:00:56] And I sanctify [00:01:02] We live forever still that life [00:01:11] There's a lot going on but I stick to the ones I love [00:01:14] I never claimed to be a perfect man but name a great man who was [00:01:18] Consequences of my actions in the past years had me stressing out [00:01:21] It was like may I just moved to l a [00:01:24] I was tryna figure it out [00:01:25] Medication for depression that I cut cold turkey had the kid manic [00:01:29] In an episode out in hollywood wilding out like nick cannon [00:01:32] Railing adderall pills out a dollar bill on the bathroom floor [00:01:35] Clean the whole mess up with my nose [00:01:37] What the f**k I need a vacuum for [00:01:39] New york city on my birthday june 6 th 2014 [00:01:42] I had that first meeting with hov plus I brought out the whole team [00:01:46] I drank that whole bottle of d'usse ty ty gave me that night [00:01:49] When we left the club after rap genius house me [00:01:52] And shorty got into a fight [00:01:53] She came out the room swingin' hit me in the jaw [00:01:55] I was really tryna fend her off [00:01:57] But I ended up in the closet with my hands around her neck [00:01:59] I was tripping dawg [00:02:01] Too proud to apologize or empathize I blamed it all on her [00:02:04] Saying that she hit me first even though she was the one hurt [00:02:08] I was really just reflecting all the hurt [00:02:09] That I was feeling from the band's rejection [00:02:11] When kids these days split that shit felt like a c-section [00:02:15] And my infidelity and jealousy with natalie on top of the amphetamines [00:02:18] And the ecstasy had me tryna drown face down in the chesapeake [00:02:22] The next month I dropped down on my luck and had europe going nuts [00:02:25] But I couldn't even appreciate it at the time I was going through too much [00:02:29] Now I had to leverage million dollar label deals on the table for my records [00:02:33] In ibiza eating paella on the roof tryna choose over breakfast [00:02:36] Hov wasn't with the bidding war but I knew the roc just felt right [00:02:39] When I saw kanye at wireless without t-pain still a good life [00:02:43] Felt so close when mr hudson introduced me to him backstage [00:02:47] He prolly don't even remember that shit like a bitch off backpage [00:02:50] But at that stage [00:02:51] I was ready to swing for the fence like a batting cage [00:02:54] At the same time I was winding down a low point in my addict phase [00:02:57] The adderall started wearing off and I went into a deep writer's block [00:03:01] All over a song that I couldn't finish [00:03:03] That I wrote about signin' to the roc [00:03:05] Isn't that ironic I was feeling so psychotic [00:03:08] With the whole world excited for me and my idol saying I got it [00:03:11] Shit got bad out in l a [00:03:13] So I moved back home to my mom's basement [00:03:15] Linked up with smoko and papi beatz and took it back to basics [00:03:19] Then I wrote rage that was me screaming out through the pain [00:03:22] And u mad addressing my relationship with natalie it was too bad [00:03:26] The violence and the lies slipped suicide into my mental health [00:03:29] I did acid in the studio one day and almost killed myself [00:03:33] As I started to fall apart certain stars started to align [00:03:37] Oh mys came to chicago in january at the perfect time [00:03:40] He said kanye was working on an album [00:03:42] And uzi played him one of our songs