IN THE SUBSTREAM

Director: F1RST T1ME (@f1rst.t1me)
Producer/Videographer: Ivan DeYoung-Dominguez (@ivandeyoung)
Single Cover Art: Willie Norris (@willienorrisworkshop)

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Instrumental: In The Substream - F1RST T1ME (@f1rst.t1me)


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In The Substream (Freestyle)

(VERSE 1)

Used to be different. but I had to go and change up the name.
Now it’s F1RST T1ME;
All of yah better listen cause I swear that it still ain’t the same.
I was young when I started;
When I had no money but I still saved the dollars and the change.
Used my own allowance just to get in the booth and to get what I’m gettin’ today
Didn’t have Pro Tools;
All I had was the clothes on my back and a mighty disdain.
For the rappers in the game;
They were talkin’ bout racks in the trap with the gat; it was lame.
Guess that comes with the money and the fame.
Now I got both; still I can’t explain.
Why I don’t wanna snitch on myself on the track for;
That don’t sit right in my brain.
For really tho!
Why you talkin’ bout bodies that you got?
You should leave ‘em in the past.
Why you talkin’ bout sellin’ that hard back then?Even still.
Like I get it; it’s the facts.
Why you talkin’ bout going to jail like it’s cool cause it’s not and I didn’t wanna ask.
Why you talkin’ bout shit you don’t have?
Why even try to rap?
You know that it’s trash.
You don’t know bout the shit that I’ve been through; 
You can’t handle the life that I live.
You don’t know what it’s like to grow up in the Bronx in the hood as a young Latin kid.
You prolly know me as Substream Diff.
Something to the name but it really wasn’t it.
Now that I’m F1RST T1ME bet all you motherfuckers really wanna know what it motherfuckin’ is!

(HOOK)

YEAH YEAH

I used to be different but I swear that I still ain’t the same.
You didn’t get it; 
I’ve been rappin’ my entire life but I’m in my own lane.
I stayed hidden; 
I wasn’t ready for the world and I never took the rhymes off the page.
Fuck it; good riddance. 
Made two mixtapes back in the day but they never got played.
Some people act like they rap but they ain’t really rappers cause they don’t really know what it means.
And some rappers wanna act like they trap but they ain’t really trappers; 
I don’t see them in the street.
And some trappers wanna be an OG.
I find it funny cause I’m really all three.
I’ve been lookin’ at them from the windows of my soul as I stroll down in the Substream.

(VERSE 2)

Yeah! 
I’ve been on my own from the get go.
Always had to watch out from the feds and the Winslow.
She know I’m the man so I told the bitch to get low.
Fuck her from the back; man, you know I had to tip toe.
Had to leave it in the trunk; shawty got that Pinto.
Slide in the DM; hit her with that Crisco.
Told her hold it for me; now shawty got a fist full.
You be on that dog food lookin’ like a pitbull.
‘Member when I had nothing;
Really, I was piss po’.
Rags in the bathtub drying when the wind blow.
Just a minority; wonder where the chips go.
It was always fuck a Ritz and anyone Nabisco.
Yeah! 
Didn’t wanna get sentimental.
But!
You know how I get it with the pen flow.
Yeah!
It was Big Dee Eye Double Eff but now for the F1RST T1ME;
Ima let that shit go.
FUCK ALL OF THAT!
I!
Wasn’t lying when I told you that I got the strap.
Lucky that somebody told me they love me so I called my OG and gave it right back.
I’ve got a couple hitters that’ll do it for me cause they live just to kill for a stack.
I’ve got my mind on the money and I don’t need to bang to make sure I fill up my racks.
I’ve got my hood on my side;
Ima keep it pushin’; 
I ain’t really got time to relax.
You know I never take breaks and I don’t even sleep;
I stay up just to work on these tracks.
Spun out the dough now I’m spinnin’ the wax.
Pumped out the flow now I’m spittin’ the facts.
You know Whenever I Pop gonna really pop off but this just a promotional rap!

(HOOK)

YEAH YEAH

I used to be different but I swear that I still ain’t the same.
You didn’t get it; 
I’ve been rappin’ my entire life but I’m in my own lane.
I stayed hidden; 
I wasn’t ready for the world and I never took the rhymes off the page.
Fuck it; good riddance. 
Made two mixtapes back in the day but they never got played.
Some people act like they rap but they ain’t really rappers cause they don’t really know what it means.
And some rappers wanna act like they trap but they ain’t really trappers; 
I don’t see them in the street.
And some trappers wanna be an OG.
I find it funny cause I’m really all three.
I’ve been lookin’ at them from the windows of my soul as I stroll down in the Substream.



- F1RST T1ME