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Description
The words hit you right in the temple - like an alarm clock yelling, “Get up and do something!” There's no room for whining, doubts, or excuses here. Every line conveys anger at circumstances and, at the same time, a stubborn “you'll never get what you want.” The music drags you by the scruff of the neck to a place where there are no soft sofas and excuses - only sleepless nights, clenched teeth, and the belief that you can succeed even on your first try.
The irony is that it seems like a simple rap about working on yourself, but it sounds like instructions for survival. “From the dirt to the stars” in its most honest form: no romance, no posters in the gym, just real dirt under your fingernails and a bold determination to prove that it's too early to write you off.
Lyrics and translation
Original
If I can do it, then why can't you?
Get up and make it work.
Yo, if I can do it, then why can't you? Huh. Get up and make it work.
Ain't no way that I'm sitting around. It's now or never, I'm picking the first.
You can't tell me that I won't make it. Knew that I had the skills since birth.
Grinding, came out the mud like Roddy. I had no body, I came from dirt.
Still can't fuck, I put in the work. Painting a picture when I write lyrics.
Don't call me a rapper, I'm really an artist. This wasn't by chance or luck.
I took one shot and I hit my target. I'm not even yet at my prime.
I'm not at a hundred, yeah, I'm still charging. They don't wanna see me win.
But I know in the end, I'm winning regardless. Sleepless nights, I was up in the stu'.
Up, up in the booth tryna make me a hit. Even when I was feeling low, man, I kept on going. I weren't gon' quit.
I can't wait for the day that I make it. Next in line, man, I feel like a king.
My time will come, I just gotta be patient. Keep on pushing and take these risks.
Made racks off putting my pain on tracks. Grinding hard, tryna see more plaques.
I've been going harder than ever. I don't have time to sit and relax.
I've been putting in countless hours and still not near where I wanna be at.
This year, I'ma prove them wrong. They said that I can't, but I know that I can.
If I can do it, then why can't you? Huh. Get up and make it work.
Ain't no way that I'm sitting around. It's now or never, I'm picking the first.
You can't tell me that I won't make it. Knew that I had the skills since birth. Grinding, came out the mud like
Roddy. I had no body, I came from dirt. Painting a picture when I write lyrics.
Don't call me a rapper, I'm really an artist. This wasn't by chance or luck.
I took one shot and I hit my target. I'm not even yet at my prime.
I'm not at a hundred, yeah, I'm still charging. They don't wanna see me win.
But I know in the end, I'm winning regardless. If I can do it, then why can't you? Huh.
Get up and make it work. Ain't no way that I'm sitting around.
It's now or never, I'm picking the first. You can't tell me that I won't make it.
Knew that I had the skills since birth. Grinding, came out the mud like Roddy.
I had no body, I came from dirt.
Grinding, came out the mud like Roddy. I had no body, I came from dirt.