Freshman 10 (Freestyle) (10th Anniversary|Explicit) - Big Sean

Lyrics by：Daoud Anthony/Westen Weiss/Sean Anderson/Chauncey Hollis/Brook Oba Rowland

Composed by：Daoud Anthony/Westen Weiss/Sean Anderson/Chauncey Hollis/Brook Oba Rowland

It's that D2 **** you know

Hit-Boy

Yeah Freshman 10

This **** makin' me feel old d**n

I gotta go back to '010

When the best car I rode in was a old Benz

Swerve

And new enemies was still old friends

Friends

Honestly I think it was around '09

The time I got the XXL cosign

Yeah

Remember thinkin'

"I should been on the last couple years n***a both times"

Both times

For the first time

Felt like I was walkin' in my truth

Cold day in NYC nervous walkin' in the room

Bumped into the coolest n***a Wiz he like "Dude

You made it here too

You know I really **** with you

I even hit you on MySpace like two years ago you the truth

Anyway I'm 'bout to drop a new mixtape

Two of 'em Cabin Fever and Kush & Orange Juice

I need you on there"

I'm like "**** send it through"

Send it through

Then I saw OJ tha Juiceman walkin' too

He like "Sean what it do"

First n***a that I seen rockin' that many diamonds

And real diamonds inside his tooth

I said "**** n***a just tryin' to be as poppin' as you"

Ayy

He ain't laugh it was cool

Then they made us all stand together

Like we was a big-a*s group

Group

Then I seen my n***a Nipsey there in all blue

Woah

Back then n***as thought he talked

And looked just like Snoop d**n

I'm just lookin' for this new n***a that Hov' signed

Some n***a from North Carolina

I heard him named J. Cole

Cole

And they said they delayed his flight

So they gotta Photoshop him in

I hope that **** look right

I hope it right

Godd**n Freshman 10

The funny thing about bein' next up is that ****

You'll never be next again

'Gain

Got my foot in the door

Been steppin' it up ever since

Since

Crazy how some of the longest

Most stressful days of your life

End up bein' the times that you wish you could live twice

Only two mixtapes in but in my city

One of the realest though

And at that time

N***as peep n***as was stealin' flows and buildin' off it

Off it

And at that time that n***a Ye was like

"Dre I'm just tryin' to make them Ms off it"

Ms

Later that night I hit the stu' with Nip' and Wiz

French Montana too but he wasn't on the cover

I mean at least not ours

But they put him on another

Another

And to sum up the whole night

I get back to the hotel few doors down

It was Jay Rock he said "Today was wild ****

But let me introduce you to my young dawg

Next up named K. Dot"

K. Dot

Who woulda thought

It's crazy memories

Our gems our mind keeps in the vault

My how life can change in on year

Okay but what about ten

I guess I'll check back in what up

Yeah huh you know freshman ten

I know some n***as made it and some n***as didn't

Didn't

That's the realest reality we all hate hittin'

But love to the whole clique

Clique

'Cause we got a platform that most don't get

Get

So shoutout Nip' Wiz and Cole

Cole who else

Shoutout Pill and OJ too

Yeah

Gangsta Gibbs Fashawn Donnis and Jay Rock too

I pray you got as much love for me as I got for you

Real ****

I think we was the best class that ever came through

Through

Huh freshman ten

I remember my graduatin' class in like '06

And I remember between then

And you know to the XXL cover

Them was prolly some of the hardest years of my life

'Cause a lot of my n***as

A lotta you know what I'm sayin'

Just everybody around me was in school

Goin' to college gettin' jobs whatever it was

And I was just still chasin' that dream

You know what I'm sayin'

I just remember havin' to record in my n***as' basements

You know settin' up the mics in our ******' closets and the bedroom

And just like goin' in

And all them lessons

Even though I had the deal from Ye which was a blessin'

It was like **** Ye was Ye so he was busy

You know **** was a little stagnant

But in them four years

When my n***as was graduatin' you know

That was the same year that I got the XXL cover

So in a way it was like that was my college degree

You know all the mixtapes all that grind all the hard work

That was like my my first degree you know what I'm sayin'

So I just appreciate the whole process the whole journey

Lookin' back I wish I woulda lived in the moment more but

I guess that's what memories are for