Lyrics Listen To My Demo.lrc Joyner Lucas
[id: wdrkarhl]
[ar: Joyner Lucas]
[al: ADHD 2]
[ti: Listen To My Demo]
[length: 05:04]
[00:18.43]I’m standin’ outside in the rain
[00:20.23]Passin’ out demo tapes tryna get a name
[00:22.38]I was like eleven back then with the braids
[00:24.45]It was 1999, I was tryna catch a wave
[00:26.88]I heard JAY-Z was in town
[00:28.57]’Bout to hit the Summer Jam stage and I gotta see his face
[00:31.20]If I give him my demo, then I wonder what he’ll say
[00:33.52]Maybe he’ll sign me and I’ll finally get a break
[00:35.56]So now he on stage
[00:37.42]And everybody’s singin’ all the words to his shit and I’m amazed
[00:40.10]I’m holdin’ up my demo with a sign, sayin’, “Please
[00:42.19]I just need a couple minutes of your time, Mr. JAY, could you?”
[00:45.67]But that ain’t gon’ work
[00:46.81]Fuck it, though, I know there’s gotta be another way
[00:48.98]Snuck past security and made it backstage
[00:51.30]Demo in my hand hopin’ he gon’ press play when he see me
[00:55.36]But when the show was all over, I was tryna walk fast
[00:57.99]Catch him when he leaves hopin’ we can cross paths
[01:00.07]But he ain’t see me and I was feelin’ all bad
[01:04.25]And then security approached me, he was wearin’ all black
[01:06.82]I passed him my CD with my house number on it
[01:08.85]Sayin’, “If you listen to it, could you please call back? Please”
[01:12.09]Please listen to my demo
[01:14.33]Please listen to my demo
[01:16.55]Please listen to my demo
[01:17.93]P-p-p-p-please listen to my demo
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[01:23.24]Please listen to my demo
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[01:29.88]It’s 2001
[01:31.23]I’m thirteen now, but I’m better than I was
[01:33.55]Rappin’ in my class when I should be doin’ work
[01:35.48]But I’m thinkin’ ’bout this beat I was hearin’ on the bus
[01:38.13]I heard Dre and Snoop Dogg was in town
[01:40.20]Up In Smoke Tour, Eminem comin’ out
[01:42.56]You should have seen the way my eyes popped out
[01:44.40]You’d have thought the heavens opened up and God popped out
[01:47.56]I wish that I could vibe with him
[01:49.00]If I give him my demo, maybe I could ride with him
[01:51.33]Maybe Em would listen if I got some time with him
[01:53.25]Maybe Dre is lookin’ for a kid that can sign with him
[01:55.51]I don’t know
[01:57.16]All I know is that I gotta go, hopefully it all pans out
[02:00.14]Tryna get tickets, so I get the plan down
[02:02.20]If I get front row, then I’ll probably stand out
[02:06.03]Then my pops came home with two VIP passes in clutch
[02:09.06]And at that very moment, I was happy as fuck
[02:10.99]So I started gettin’ dressed so fast in a rush
[02:13.54]Demo in my hand, had a rich-man glow
[02:15.68]He walked in my room and said, “Kids can’t go” (Damn)
[02:18.65]And so he brought his girl with him
[02:20.00]And I can’t believe I let another big chance go, damn
[02:23.27]Please listen to my demo
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[02:27.63]Please listen to my demo
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[02:32.11]Please listen to my demo
[02:34.32]Can you listen to my demo?
[02:36.58]Please listen to my demo
[02:37.98]P-p-p-please, uh
[02:40.93]A lot of years went by
[02:42.32]I’m twenty-five now and the tears went dry
[02:44.64]2015 and I still got a dream
[02:46.63]But reality is lookin’ kinda real this time
[02:49.28]I’m in the booth with the grunge on my face
[02:51.28]Tryna make a demo with no funds in the bank
[02:53.56]I don’t wanna quit ‘fore I make it out the bricks
[02:55.56]And my girl told me that we got a son on the way
[02:57.71]What the fuck? Damn
[02:59.85]I gotta push the go button, I ain’t got a bit of time
[03:02.38]’Cause it ain’t ’bout me no more, I gotta just provide
[03:04.38]If I don’t make it when he born, then I gotta get a job
[03:07.37]I hit the ground runnin’ with a plan
[03:09.15]Make a mixtape and build somethin’ with the fans
[03:11.28]If I don’t do it now, then I’ll never get a chance
[03:13.28]Got a certain way of thinkin’, some will never understand
[03:16.43]So now I’m sittin’ on the block
[03:17.98]Vibin’ out, bumpin’ instrumentals in the drop
[03:20.24]Writin’ every day like my pen don’t wanna stop
[03:22.15]And my baby mom packagin’ my demos in a box
[03:24.98]I was pullin’ up to schools in a rental
[03:26.88]CD in my hand, put my arm out the window
[03:29.28]Nobody took it and I didn’t get the memo
[03:31.21]And all I kept sayin’ was, “Please listen to my demo”
[03:34.29]Please listen to my demo
[03:36.53]Please listen to my demo
[03:38.78]Please listen to my demo
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[03:45.49]Please listen to my demo
[03:47.73]Please listen to my demo
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[03:51.73]It’s 2025 and some change
[03:53.41]I think I finally made it to a household name
[03:55.76]Moved my whole family out the hood, what a change
[03:57.74]Told my mama quit her job, she won’t work another day
[04:00.91]I got Platinum plaques now
[04:02.39]Couple hit singles and a back-to-back now
[04:04.57]Couple big cribs I’ma have to pass down
[04:06.63]When I put my demos out, I don’t have to ask now if you can listen
[04:10.08]I’m sayin’ what I want
[04:11.31]All your favorite rappers keep sayin’ I’m the one
[04:13.49]And if I died now, then I’m grateful what I’ve done
[04:15.51]’Cause a lot of **** never really made it where I’m from
[04:18.26]I’m on tour and they waitin’ in the front
[04:20.23]Campin’ outside while they bakin’ in the sun
[04:22.46]Pull up in your city and they wavin’ to the bus
[04:24.36]Got my songs on the speaker and they singin’ every one
[04:27.79]And so I hit the stage
[04:29.36]This the same book, just a different page
[04:31.37]Crowd goin’ crazy, but I know this one kid
[04:33.21]Starin’ at me with a glow like he was in a daze
[04:36.01]I’m lookin’ at him in the crowd, I can see his face
[04:38.33]And he lookin’ back at me and I wonder what he thinkin’
[04:40.54]It remind me of how I used to look at JAY
[04:42.65]When all I wanted was someone to give my shit a play
[04:45.92]And when the show was all over, they was tryna get me back in the cut
[04:48.96]Security was walkin’ all faster than us
[04:51.06]Tryna get me out the buildin’, get me back to the bus
[04:54.04]Standin’ by the bus was the kid that I seen from the crowd
[04:56.63]****, how coincidental
[04:58.04]Handed me his CD with his number on the pillow
[05:00.11]Looked at me and said, “Please listen to my demo”Year of Release: 2025