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Let Me Be Great


People ask me all time

"What do you want to be?"

"What's gone be your career?"

I tell them it's not what I'm going to be

Better yet it's what I am now

I'm a creativist

Meaning my mind of expertise needs no degree

At the age of 15 I was a dj making my own money

At 16 I started producing beats as sweet as honey

Then I got my own logo, started networking with moguls

The sweet 16 meeting business minds of 32

This year at 17 I'm making my pursuit

I dubbed myself Ymanuel the Great

Check my papers, ask my teachers they'll tell you it straight

Because I dj, produce and egineer now all in the music race

I'm developing an app and making business moves with my school

Being called out of class because I have work

Meeting with business doing my network

At held in the principal office, so you know I had support

Learning gaming and designing and I even did a sport

Track champions of state

Young business state champ

People are often impressed when they see my stamp

That's my business cards when I hand it to them

Not to mention how I bring it to them

Plus all that I have to stay up everynight

Studying for college classes in sight

I do dual enrollement, I aint bored

I take two classes at my school then I leave for BARD

So please tell me the last time you saw the Young Jobs and Kanye

Immaculate how I do all that

Great thinker great mind

Not to mention the community service I find time

Damn rewind

What's next, Now you telling me he Malcolm X

He organize youth like the troops to rise up the oppressed

So please next time sir or mam you concerned about my future

Just check my actions my future is now

Ymanuel the Great 

Leadership and Business

Everything I think of not merely just a vision

I make it come true and oh part 2

Watch out for my clothing line coming out in June

partned with Thug Ave

So may i ask let me be great?

I got a lot on my plate but I scrape my plate

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