Here’s the first video from Shopé’s upcoming self-titled EP for his track “Don’t Let Me Stop.”
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Check out the quick cameo appearance at 1:20!
LYRICS
Verse 1
Would you be mad, if I said I was the greatest,
And a GRAMMY nom not very long would catch up to my greatness,//
Like everyone’s encephalon was tuned up to my cadence,
Just in case in this race, you were wondering if the north would make it//
To the playlist, lots of patience, heavy perspiration,
Tryna carve out a piece in this place considered sacred//
I admit we was late to the party, now in the lobby,
Tryna board up in this game, this ain’t a monopoly//
That’s what they told us,
So we took it on our shoulders,
Add us to the melting pot,
Toronto we the coldest//
City of dreams,
So silly it seems
To chase your passion in a place where they stick you between,
Autonomy and a wannabe
At least until you wanna leave,
Then they wannabe a part of thee
New discovery//
That’s unacceptable
(But) the maple leaf will forever be tatted on my ventricle,
It’s love but I’m skeptical//
Hook
Don’t let me stop now,
Too close to lose it all,
To lose it all
(x2)
Verse 2
So I’m driving through my city, with my high beams on,
Thinking will I make it, or will I dream on//
That say, Shopé, you get no pay
Tryna be the rap heir,
Better settle down, get a job, start a car-ear (career),//
A quarter past ambition,
Half through indecision,
Three quarter through boarders
Clocking in on ma-ah (my) vision//
So I can’t lie
I’m tryna see my name rise,
But a vain prize
Could never be sufficient when my frame dies cuz fame lies//
Humility & ambitious living are they opposed,
That’s an open question, cuz honestly I don’t know//
I’m just a Saint, tryna balance what I know is true,
With an awkward sense of calling that I feel to speak the truth//
So let me back track, I know I’m not the greatest,
But I know I’ve got a gift so good to shackle off the cages//
I can only pray, I know His ways,
And He shines upon my lonely days,
Filter my ambition, inhibition to those oldy ways,
(Hook)
Bridge
Yea,
If I make it, then I’ll take it,
If I don’t then I won’t…
Cuz I did…
Work hard to be the best,
In private and in public, but The Lord, He knows what’s best…
The Lord, He knows what’s best…
The Lord, He knows what’s best…
(Hook)
