Whiplash Lyrics - Kero One

(Verse 1) 

Post alma mater, trying to get dollars, right out of college 

With a collar on starving like Ramadan for something solid 

I'm getting off work about 8 pm, grab a little bite and embrace a pen 

Make a couple beats, inside my den, wake up in the a.m., do it all again 

Friends, I had them but they too busy chasing them ladies 

Money gone, what a con, when drinks equals Mercedes 

I'd rather demolish a song 

I made in two nights with a new mic from not getting my baller on 

Smashing into the scene with my flow 

They blasting my beats in headphones 

Packing up seats in each row 

Cause passion is unleashed each show 

(Wake up!) And that's when I snapped out of a dream in a corporate meeting 

(Wake up!) drooling, snoozing, heavy, breathing, forget it, I'm leaving 

Yo boss, I'm going to take off this evening to enjoy the weekend 

Maxing out CC's, crafting CD's until I'm eating 

Even if my tanks on "E" and the banks own me 

With that 20% APR my graveyard through laboring 

(Chorus) 

Whiplash, whiplash, energy out, it got to come back! 

(Verse 2) 

Sometimes I drop to my knees, praise God who set my soul free 

But I never got a spoon feed, hustling like its all on me 

With an appetite that's out of sight, like every night just grabbed the mic 

Burned demos, instrumentals, self assembled in my bedroom 

Stacks of CD's, passed 'em freely, play on TV, wasn't easy 

No Youtube, to allow you or school you with how to's none to teach me 

Feel me? asking every homie if they'd film me, but don't bill me 

My video budget was rubbish, publicists would milk me 

Emptied my pockets silly really nonetheless we needed press 

CD's were pressed, off my own debt, no regrets to kill me 

Keeping it professional, at all times, when I was small time 

From call times to interviews of all kinds even those that grilled me 

Fundamentally its that energy I put out that made enemies or friends to me 

Propelling me up with more feet then a centipede 

Sending me, towards finer things from flyering my own 

Shows, to inspiring those aspiring to go pro with flows bro... 

(Chorus) 

Whiplash, whiplash, energy out, it got to come back!