[Intro: Rowlan] (Talking) I need you to understand that, tomorrow isn't promised, and the things that you take for granted are someone else's prayers, so be grateful. [Verse 1: Rowlan] You alive right and you breathing, In this world where living is deceiving, Where you been stabbed in the back but it's healing, And you been crying out to god for a reason, What's the reason, Be grateful for your last breathe, Grateful for your next, Grateful for you mistakes, And grateful for your ex, I'm grateful for this damn phone and that last text Cause It's a reply to that suicide note I sent to vent and to leave a warning This wasn't no murder I died from music My lyrics just grabbed the burner They started shooting I was gonna get low But I wanna meet god and ask em all I don't know But then I seen my mom from in my casket And my nieces crying out and grasping On they momma Ya she feeling hateful But her baby's still alive That's a reason to be grateful [Hook: Fancy] We got a lot of pain, We got a lot of things, We can get over, Staying on the grind, Through these hard times, While we say in our minds, We taking over, I'mma change the world, Yeah, Yeah. [Verse 2: Rowlan] We all living and breathing and we all searching for a meaning, As A Human being, or a person persevering on this earth, So we search, the pastor say it's in the church, It's in my soul, God knows my soul and I know what I'm worth, So I'mma raise up and fly to that almighty lord, A peaceful trip reminiscing on days that I was poor, Hold tight momma, I know your feet are soar, But this struggle like dead cancer cause it kills no more, We making it, no consigns needed, I'm taking it like guns shots, to the chest and I'm bleeding, I'm here rapping, I'm dreaming without sleeping, Praying to The Lord I get heard without screaming, Praying to The Lord all my fans start feigning, Praying to The Lord I can keep the kids from feigning, From these perks and this Molly, Give them work Ethic probably, Give them knowledge and some hope from Chicago to Somali, Gone! [Hook: Fancy] We got a lot of pain, We got a lot of things, We can get over, Staying on the grind, Through these hard times, While we say in our minds, We taking over, I'mma change the world, Yeah, Yeah. [Verse 3: Rowlan] How do u define real, tell me right now, Fighting people, no emotions, please tell me how, They can change the earth, no they can fill a cage, They can act tough, mom's still on minimum wage, Where's the pride in that, what the f*ck are you saving, Oh you forgot life is real, 28 still misbehaving, Grow the fuck up, make a fucking change, Real is being grateful daily, for another day, Real is working hard, real is setting goals, Real is chasing dreams, til you waking up to those, Real is being you, real is showing love, Real is being humble, salute to all who above, I been grateful for awhile but I can keep it going, Fans rolling with me not a single one slowing, down, And I'm near reach of the crown, No I ain't city boy, I'm grateful for my town! [Hook: Fancy] We got a lot of pain, We got a lot of things, We can get over, Staying on the grind, Through these hard times, While we say in our minds, We taking over, I'mma change the world, Yeah, Yeah.

[Hook: Ardis Grace] Don't be scared baby, I'll be right there baby, You're safe and sound, From all this calamity, insanity, it's a tragedy, Have no fear baby, I'll be right here baby, Next to you, Next to you. [Verse 1: Rowlan] This is to my unborn child, it's daddy, I question sometimes if I should have you, sadly, It's a, crazy planet and it's only getting worse, I see my death as they plan it, Cut my vein, on every verse, Let my throat bleed, I rehearse, Cut my phone off, F*ck a nurse, I'm just hoping, and I'm praying, That those prayers reach you first, it hurts, To think about, all of the ways the world could stop, When we surrounded by straight killers, and crooked cops, Dear my unborn child, I got a question, Is it you that I'm scared for, or the lack of the earth's progression, No, it's the lack of earth's progression now, [Hook: Ardis Grace] Don't be scared baby, I'll be right there baby, You're safe and sound, From all this calamity, insanity, it's a tragedy, Have no fear baby, I'll be right here baby, Next to you, Next to you. [Verse 2: Rowlan] This is music serving up change, Rhymes spilling out pain, Leaving my reaction asking, Why innocence never stays, These crooked people just build, An empire to kill, Innocence, and in a sense, Making cents don't make u mills, A life is just a life, a dollar's a f*cking bill, But that same old piece of paper, The reason people are killed, It's sick, it's fucking ill, Mentally, hard to fathom, So I'm gathering information, Making my own passion, A sadness tragic illusion, While we ran by the government, Like f*ck a constitution, So I'm shooting and I'm looting, Till equality is crucial, So I guess I'mma die a shooter [Pre-verse: Ardis Grace] Baby don't fear I am here [Verse 3: Rowlan] We ran by technology, chased by the spy's Global warming's approaching, orange pollution fills the sky's, And they glaze over our eyes, but I started off blind, So you may be tricking them, but you ain't tricking me or mine, My movement's too f*cking real, I could lie like the rest, And say I rob and f*cking steal, And I'm f*cking three b*tches, in one impala hitting switches, I'm in it all for riches, I kill snitches, and snitches witnesses, And I'm pitching it just how it was perceived, But now I'm heard cause I worked hard as f*ck, and you bet I believed, Exactly what I should, But this world's fucking backwards, You can't tell what rap is good, You can't tell what music's bad, You can't tell what you gon' have, And you had the life of your dreams, Now that's just the life you had, And you mad, no you sad, Cause you can't take it back, Truly yours it's dad, To the child, I'll never have, Gone. [Hook: Ardis Grace] Don't be scared baby, I'll be right there baby, You're safe and sound, From all this calamity, insanity, it's a tragedy, Have no fear baby, I'll be right here baby, Next to you, Next to you.

[Verse 1: Rowlan] Ideas, bad situations, man I seen it like a hawk, But I'm here, f*ck allegations, now these b*tches wanna talk, But I'm done talking, it's pure rap, I been through hunger, I'm still trapped, I seen the bad, and I felt the worst, And they still surprised, when I f*ckin burst, I can tell you pain, I could show you hate, I can share my struggle, for the kids who up too late, I could talk about life or the new world order, So don't listen to the news, just know the facts, When you hear I been slaughtered, Killing the lies, exposing the truth, I achieve a dream whenever I'm the booth, So They listen close, then yell preach, If you open your mind, I got you the world to teach Words, facts, Whites, blacks, Guns, straps, Each verse is a track, So each song is an EP, Give you my life story in 3D, Give you my life goals in wholes, With hopes that they reach hov, But I can't guarantee nothing, Just pray and to keep my faith, Just know I was never fronting, When I said I'mma reach those gates. [Hook: Rowlan] You can try to stop the unstoppable, And I'mma tell u good luck, You can try to hide the unhide-able, And I'mma tell u good luck , You can try to kill the invisible, But hey good luck, You can try to stop me right now, All I gotta say is good luck, [Verse 2: Rowlan] I got a debt to my name, I owe Apple Inc. 20,000, I got car I can barely pay, With some rent with no break from housing, I got a girl I need to keep healthy, Even when I'm broke got to make her feel wealthy, Got a mom that stuck in hole, Mr. Devil what can I get for my soul, Cause I'll sell it all, I'll stop the world, And I'll stop the world, And I'll flip the Earth, And I'll sacrifice, My f*ckin life, To make sure my fam, Don't fall in dirt, Hey, Hey, bro get up, Said my buddy Josh Lopes who died, You can make it through anything, God told me you one of a kind, It's Inspiration, concentration, I'm getting so damn obsessed, Calculation I'mma true sensation, I'm god blessed, so f*ck the rest, I'm going, I'm going, I'm going going, til I'm f*cking gone, Tell the Lord I'm sorry, hey Lord I'm sorry, We talked before, but it's been too long, But I'm holding strong and I know you there, So when they hate on me I don't f*cking care, I got a goal, I gotta open mind, I gotta work ethic, that's one of a kind, I'm working, I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I'm trying, I'm trying, I'm sinking, I think that I'm dying, I'm not, I ain't, Ain't a human that can tell me I can't, So I do and that's all, World on my back I still stand tall, I'm Gone!

[Intro: Rowlan] (Talking) This one here, this is for the home town. [Verse 1: Rowlan] I seen to much struggling, For me to dislike this life, I'm living fantastic, Even when I when I say I'm just alright, I said I'm thankful, matter fact I'm blessed, Matter fact I'm high off life, to high up to see the rest, Check, Me out, if you ever got the time, I ain't in it for the money but toss me a piece of mind, That's fine, I'll manage , but promise if I vanish, You'll continue on my legacy, and make my knowledge standard cause, I'm what they need to hear, I'm everything more, I am everything they said, I will never be before, But now I'm Rowlan, and I didn't come from something, So I take the time to brag about the fact I came from nothing, You can't stop me, and frankly you never could, Snipers in the distance, I'm yelling I wish you would, I do this for humanity, I do this for the thrills, I seen our f*cking destiny, So I went for the kill, I sat back took breathe to the dome, And raised up to heavens, instead of sitting alone, Chilling with Toni Edwards, Josh was there too, But I'm thinking damn it's crazy what Cape Cod could do, But that's my home, I'll never leave it alone, I'm just hoping when I return, all of my people aren't gone. [Hook: That Dude, Rowlan] If you put on for me, Then I put on for you, It's all that I can see, It's all I want to do, And if your thoughts change, Don't let your heart change, And if nothing stay the same, I just want you to be proud of me, yeah, I just want you to be proud of me, yeah, I just want you to be proud of me, yeah, I just want you to be proud of me, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah, [Verse 2: Rowlan] Yeah, Uh, This is my love, my passion, and everything in between, And I hope some motivation for you to go chase your dream, I'm coming from a place, where the drugs will kill you quick, But they hear it's vacation land, so they don't give a shit, man, I'm not saying it justifies acting dumb, But I'll be damned if you suck your teeth when you hear where I'm from, I'm from the cape, where they need some inspiration, Now I'm out in Taunton and Boston, just dream chasing, While my brothers either locked up there or feigning, Just a lost young man big bro keep dreaming, Cause when I make I promise you'll live big, Even though you stabbed and rob me when we were kids, I understand the percocets in your system, And I learned from your mistakes now I got 4 more years of wisdom, I wanna say to my friends, fam, and girl, Sorry I don't respond but I been taken by the world, And hip-hop, I'm married, and in denial, I murdered the old me, the oldest me took me to trial, They always asking do you mean every word, Well, did scarface ever get to see a bird, Then I laugh to myself deep inside, Live a crazy ass life, Counting the times I should of died. [Hook: That Dude, Rowlan] If you put on for me, Then I put on for you, It's all that I can see, It's all I want to do, And if your thoughts change, Don't let your heart change, And if nothing stay the same, I just want you to be proud of me, yeah, I just want you to be proud of me, yeah, I just want you to be proud of me, yeah, I just want you to be proud of me, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah yeah,

[Verse 1: Rowlan] Uh, Yeah, Uh, Life is happy so I cherish every moment, Lease a 30 dollar beat and I hop on it like I own it, Check my mirror I see my only opponent, And they stop me in the streets and they say Rowlan, where you going, I try explain, all I can do is try, I'm aiming at the top, I plan to set the clouds on fire, I plan to take over, pardon my blue eyes, But I see the shoes to fill ain't half the expected size, So I'mma go at them, like I ain't never ate, I said it's my time, the clocks are just running late, And if you disagree, that's cause your head is straight, Ain't no time for level headed thinking, boy I'm chasing fate, Chasing my fate, it's running fast, Flashbacks to my past, Questioning scary moments, Letting me know exactly why I'mma last, In a game full of gas, like f*ck it I'll throw the match. [Hook: Robyn Kavanagh] Hold on, stay strong, I'll be by your side, Pray to, the Lord, let him keep you alive, One chance, one shot, Yeah, it's do or die, Your in the eye, of the giants. [Verse 2: Rowlan] Here is where I stand, this is planet Earth, Time for the change, they been trying since my birth, I been dying from the thirst, I'm seeing what words could do, At least change a life, maybe even two, Million but see me I'm aiming at several billion, Hearing they mentality, really I ain't feeling them, Are they feeling me, wait do that strike my thoughts, Why would my mind resemble sadness when there's tragic loss, Each and every day, I'm working to pave a way, in one page and they that they paying me by giving me plays, But thats not enough, it never will be, They make me stronger cause it's gonna take God to kill me, But that's the human race, I'm looking for why they hate, A truth they can not embrace, fake answers is what they take, It's what they settle on, We Rowlan, We Rowlan strong, Feel like I been thinking far too deep for far too long. [Hook: Robyn Kavanagh] Hold on, stay strong, I'll be by your side, Pray to, the Lord, let him keep you alive, One chance, one shot, Yeah, it's do or die, Your in the eye, of the giants. [Verse 3: Rowlan] I'm three lions just lying inside asylum, Slowly dying just trying to stay alive when, They trying to fry me and turn me into a science, Jehova's talking crazy like lets go visit the Zion, No price on my life, but a lot on my head, What a hell of a night, too damn much was said, I heard this preacher teaching, all of his beliefs, And if you show the way, why ain't the way showing me, I got a question God, where the hell you been, But then I wake up, again and again. So then you shut me up before I started talking, A voice go in my head and it say boy get to walking, Even if you Rowlan boy, you just keep on going, You just keep on writing boy, you just keep on flowing, Some wish for may, others wish they might, Some wish for may, I pray to God I keep my mic, huh? [Hook: Robyn Kavanagh] Hold on, stay strong, I'll be by your side, Pray to, the Lord, let him keep you alive, One chance, one shot, Yeah, it's do or die, Your in the eye, of the giants.

[Verse 1: Rowlan] Hey, hey, One day, Hey maybe one day, We can all hold hands, And together fly away, It's just it's hard when we see the other side, And jealously breeds and brings urges to wanna ride, Or wanna rob and take everything they got, They trying to stay rich we trying not to get shot, We trying to eat, we trying to keep a roof, While they worry about insurance on that brand new coupe, what, It's love it's hate but we came so far, White man buy a stock, black man buy a car, Then add some rims, white man buy a suite, But if a black man do he just trying to be a white man too, But that's society white man lacks sobriety, Cause he tried a drug, like that black drug dealer lied to me, And snitch em out and it don't get no faker, Cause they put him in a cell and make the rapist his new neighbor, huh? [Hook: Rex Mac] I think it's rather funny how the game go, Cause brother I don't know if I can let this pain go, You either put your middle fingers up or you can lay low, Or you can stay cold, But I'd rather stay grateful, And take it day by day, one day at a time, Take it day by day, one day at a time. [Verse 2: Rowlan] You know that black man that you kind of put in jail, Who got a year because your back pains were hell, And then you asked him if he could help you out, Well he kind of got stabbed and he's living with God now, He died in prison like a damn statistic, Three whites killed him not a single guard missed it, But now that rapist that is free next door, Watching your kids play while your back gets soar, Then later on when your daughters growing up, Eleven years old saying dad I'm old enough, To have sex it's whatever, I already have anyway, When you was working that neighbor touched me like everyday, It messed me up but it showed me even more, About the vicious cycle of this racist ass world, So now I live by the words it's not your color, Cause while you trying not to a million people suffered. [Hook: Rex Mac] I think it's rather funny how the game go, Cause brother I don't know if I can let this pain go, You either put your middle fingers up or you can lay low, Or you can stay cold, But I'd rather stay grateful, And take it day by day, one day at a time, Take it day by day, one day at a time. Verse 3 Racism still moving but are you helping, White people are rich and black man is still the felon, When will stereo types, of blacks, latins, and whites, unite, So Martin Luther King can sleep throughout the night, If ever but how can u expect a change, If half our days, are stuck in ways, Cause our are brains remain the same, And goals are hard to reach, But how far can you make it if you afraid to teach, The next generation right from wrong, Saying blacks can't succeed and whites can't rap a song, Well I'll pass all your judgmental thoughts, And pray to the Lord that your ignorance is lost, And sense is found somewhere inside of your mind, Where the n-word is used or you still hate on my kind, It's up to us, let's change this f*cking place, They tell us live fast, so let's change the f*cking pace, hey! [Hook: Rex Mac] I think it's rather funny how the game go, Cause brother I don't know if I can let this pain go, You either put your middle fingers up or you can lay low, Or you can stay cold, But I'd rather stay grateful, And take it day by day, one day at a time, Take it day by day, one day at a time.

[Intro: Rowlan] Yeah, They used to tell me that I'd fail, yeah they used to tell me that, They used to tell me that I'd fail, yeah they used to tell me that. [Verse 1: Rowlan] Yeah uh, As I reflect on my life, I haven't slept three nights, I been praying for hours, Me and the old me stay tight, I been dreaming bout love, And I been thinking bout lust, But I been flirting with reality, And f*cking on trust, I been talking, I been hearing, I been thinking, And accusing, I been focused on music, And not about what I been losing my, Personality, It seems like I'm faded, I used to have some friends, But this music sh*t leave you jaded, Now, I'm a mess and I'm numb to my emotions, My young homie just passed, I wrote a song and kept it going, I'm not right in my mind, My Insanity state is current, All these restless nights of rapping, Have turned me into a hermit, But my passion and desire keep on burning, So I'mma let it burn til' I own and can say I earned it, I'm in this for the long, I'm in this for us all, I'm slowly thinking deeper, deeper then ever before, I swear this life is nothing like I expected I been focused on my music, now I lost what I neglected, [Outro: Rowlan] Damn, Damn, Damn, Yeah. They used to tell me that I'd fail, yeah they used to tell me that, They used to tell me that I'd fail, yeah they used to tell me that.

[Hook: Daviglio] When my world was crashing all around me, All my hope was gone, I was drowning in darkness, Barely hanging on, Out of the shadows you appeared and help me breath again, So when it all goes to black, I won't start to fall, Cause I can find you in the shadows. [Verse 1: Rowlan] I love you, I need you Asking myself, how could he ever beat you, He said he loved you and he said he need me, But now that same guy threw on through the TV, Mom how could he if that's my future dad, Why every time I see you, you walking around always mad, It don't make sense in love it ain't required, I know you want him there but need is far from desire, I seen him hit you and he says its cause he cares, Well I've seen compassion and it was never there, I try to tell you something but you won't listen, I'm so scared leaving your side is a mission, Should I go to school with real life problems on my plate, Every teacher together never related to my fate, Is it just me or is this real life, When you eleven not in the hood, still tucking a knife, I couldn't understand why life ain't going swell, Well to make it to heaven, God will bring you through hell. [Hook: Daviglio] When my world was crashing all around me, All my hope was gone, I was drowning in darkness, Barely hanging on, Out of the shadows you appeared and help me breath again, So when it all goes to black, I won't start to fall, Cause I can find you in the shadows. [Verse 2: Rowlan] Did you mean it every time you say you love me, You also said that there was nothing up above me, I'm losing faith and feeling portrayed, I'm all alone matter fact I'm self raised, I'm always lonely feeling abandoned, Your never sober, wish you saw yourself on camera. How does it feel when your youngest kid lecture you, And you tell me it's cause of bills stressing you, I'm just a good kid trying to help my mom, Realize the situations that are going on, In the world it's a cold f*cking globe, And a trap and they got you in a hole, They want you either drunk or too high, To realize you paying the system just to die, But I refuse to lose my mother over that, So I'mma help you if I gotta go through hell and back, I want you here I love to the sky, I get soft on this music but never swallow my pride. [Hook: Daviglio] When my world was crashing all around me, All my hope was gone, I was drowning in darkness, Barely hanging on, Out of the shadows you appeared and help me breath again, So when it all goes to black, I won't start to fall, Cause I can find you in the shadows. [Verse 3: Rowlan] Gotta feel the struggle, gotta trust the struggle, Gotta thank the struggle, it was there when no one loved you, I'm not sure it thats good, I'm not sure if thats bad, But I'm forgive full, and thankful, I never had a dad, Cause if i had, who knows what I'd be like, Cause now I see my dreams, and yeah I turn them into real life, Hope I'm inspiring, good kids who were firing, Letting them know what time it is, leave room for admiring, And desiring, all the things your requiring, To reach success is a mess, when know one's hiring, But chase that dream, even when your team bail on you, Cause ambition mixed with passion, will never fail on you, And friends are snakes just trying to leave a trail on you, The hardest dudes the ones who be turning frail on you, I don't mind I'm in control of my life, Even when they bring me into the dark I light the night, When you see me down that's a hell of a site, Even when I was close to death, God told me I'd be alright. [Hook: Daviglio] When my world was crashing all around me, All my hope was gone, I was drowning in darkness, Barely hanging on, Out of the shadows you appeared and help me breath again, So when it all goes to black, I won't start to fall, Cause I can find you in the shadows.

[Intro: Rowlan] (Talking) This here, this is how we end it, the Grateful mix-tape. Last song, still so much to be said. [Verse 1: Rowlan] I got meaning, I got words, They play my shit but not as much as I deserve, But they will so I ain't nervous, Dylan told that WeRowlan for a purpose, And it's more then just important, More then writing and recording, More then staying up nightly, More then any thing we seen, More then any ordinary life, More then any old dream, More then anything we planned, More then any thing we thought, More then all that I imagined, So I will not take a loss, This Victory is the only thing sitting me, Fuck history cause what's been done, Never really meant shit to me, literally, getting me, Out of bed every morning, I'm over here recording, While half you rappers are snoring I'm scoring fans and connections, Impressing people infested in music always progressing, I learned from being a peasant mistakes are my biggest lessons, My fans are my biggest blessings, you all are my biggest blessings. [Hook: Fancy] I'm so grateful for you, Aren't you grateful for him too, Working hard every day and night, Praying to the lord to make my music bright, I'm so grateful for you, Can't you be grateful for him too, I'm so grateful. [Verse 2: Rowlan] I said I started on the side line innocent little Tommy, Little Tommy becoming Rowlan, Rowlan verses becoming homi's Homi's, murder, and torture, I'm taking my words and torching, Anyone who try to stop me from recording, I drain my soul, spill my thoughts, and ease my pain, With some words, positivity, and hunger for the change, Hunger for brighter days, hunger for new ways, Hunger to make you hungry, off some sh*t that I say, I want to inspire f*ck the rent, My desire's to get you bent, I been the f*cking best, And you head bobbing is evidence and, If not, chances are your irrelevant, To real hip-hop I'm reaching the spot, That delivers the heaven sent, People and places, I'm gaining ground, losing patience, I set off rounds, in a basement, of metal walls and start chasing, A bullet in circles, I'm laughing at all hurdles, I'm rearanging my life, I pray to God every morning I see tomorrow's tonight, I pray to God every day that I continue to fight, I pray to god every night, and I just thank him for life, I thank him for life, I pray to God every night And I just thank him for life, I'm grateful. [Chorus: Fancy] I'm so grateful for you, Aren't you grateful for him too, Working hard every day and night, Praying to the lord to make my music bright, I'm so grateful for you, Can't you be grateful for him too, I'm so grateful. [Outro: Rowlan] (Talking) I hope after hearing this mixtape, you can be a little bit more grateful for your life, and understand that things that you have in your everyday life are things that people are praying for somewhere. Think about the fact that on your low days there is people who can't see, who don't get to hear this music, there are kids starving, dying of starvation every single day. Be grateful for all the things, look at all the blessings you have in your life and stop thinking about all the things you don't have. You see, you eat, you breath, you do one of those things which is miles ahead of what someone else is doing, you can function you can live your life. Be grateful for this life and understand it can be taken away at any minute. Every minute that your feet hit the floor, is another day to just go chase your dream, make things happen, and alot of people didnt get that opportunity so, be grateful that you woke up again. You woke up again. Without further a due I'd like to thank you all for reaching it to this point in the mixtape, last track, last word, gone.