01x08 - It's All About Your Legacy

[bunniefuu]

[Propst] Probably the biggest week

I've seen in here in a long time.

And it's your biggest week.

And it's got to be your best one.

I'm not gonna deny

they're a good football team.

They have a really good program now.

They were 5A state champions last year.

They've moved into 6A

and their goal's to win again.

I mean, we're in our fourth week

of championship football.

When you get to this point, men,

there ain't no bad teams.

When I got here, I had to decide,

"Why has this program only been

to one championship game

in 20-plus years?"

This is only

the second semi-finals since 1998.

We can change that and start a trend here.

What's the key to winning?

Well, now is not the time to stand still.

We've got to continue to improve to win.

If we don't improve, we won't win.

So, follow the plan.

It ain't always gonna be rosy.

We just gotta go steal their hearts.

[Nichols] Valdosta's headed north,

to get ready for the Buford Wolves

in the state semifinals.

It's been a long season, Wildcat fans,

but here we are, one win away

from the state championship game.

You ready to go back to school?

Finally got

these negative test results in.

I had my negative test,

I just haven't gone back.

Yeah, but mine finally came back.

It was just taking forever.

It's been a long week and a half.

I did a lot of self-reassessing

and what not.

- Yeah?

- Meditating.

- You did?

- Yeah.

That's good.

Can't wait to see Samuel and all my boys.

Oh, I bet you're so excited.

I'm so excited.

I get to go to that practice today.

[Grayson chuckles]

- Negative.

- Yeah.

Apparently I gotta give that to y'all.

This is a CAT scan they ran on you?

- I think, maybe.

- Negative brain activity?

I did get a CAT scan

on my brain last year.

Could they even read that?

I'm not sure. I don't remember.

Welcome back.

Get ready.

I heard I got blitzes to learn.

A what?

Hella blitzes to learn.

No.

That's for starters.

You're all right.

[chuckling]

[Propst] State champ!

Played his butt off for three games.

Nice job, nice job!

If you put in 21 weeks of work

and you give up the goat now?

Ain't no way that happens.

Going into Buford

is one step closer to the goal.

- [energetic hip-hop plays]

- [blowing whistle]

Show pride.

Ready?

Come get it!

Catch it! Good.

Nice ball! Nice ball!

Heading to Buford, I

Buford is a great program.

They're the top team in 6A.

We just gotta come in and play hard,

play the best that we've ever played.

[Propst] Play into the Back up.

- Good.

- [whistle blowing]

Huddle up!

[players clamoring]

Hit a knee. Listen.

You gotta play at a high level

for four quarters.

You ain't but eight quarters away

from being state champion.

It's our program versus their program.

Arguably, two of the best programs

in the state of Georgia.

They haven't had a good program

as long as us.

But the last 20 years now,

they're going for their 12th state title.

We're going for our 25th.

Something's gotta give.

Something's gotta give.

[pulsing electro-pop song plays]

[Morgan and Jenna] Thank you.

- Can I have a pink straw?

- [man] Yes, ma'am.

[Morgan chuckles]

[Jenna] Anyhoo I love smoothies.

Anyway. You going to the game on Friday?

- Yes.

- Good.

I'm excited.

We're gonna win state this year.

Yeah, we've been winning games

since I'm not a distraction anymore.

- Okay.

- [both chuckling]

He tried to talk to me.

You know, I was just like,

"Amari, move.

We're not even gonna do this.

Just, like, move."

And then, like

- Mm-hmm.

- I had cried in class.

He wanted to talk to me.

I wanted to talk to him.

But I didn't want to get in trouble,

like that Friday at the game.

I went and supported him.

Now y'all are besties again?

No. No. No.

I had to block him.

Well, instead of blocking people,

you could solve the problem.

Solve what problem? There's no problem.

- Our moms don't

- Unblock him then!

Our parents don't want us talking.

Like, what do you mean?

We don't supposed to have,

like, no contact.

Queens don't like to be tied down.

[Jenna laughs, rings bell]

[Nelson] He doesn't do anything

the same time.

If there's a schedule,

I sure as hell I don't know what it is.

[Beckham] As the season went on,

I think Coach Propst

had his idea of how things

should definitely be run.

And I think those ideas were different

than what Nub Nelson

How he thought it should be run.

Appreciate y'all coming.

I mean, I know we will just

continue to increase this group.

I think what Rush is trying to do

is start another Touchdown Club.

But there's only one

Touchdown Club in Valdosta.

We got big problems.

A lot to get done here

over the next couple years.

Long as you get a new weight room.

Then you take that weight room,

the existing room now,

and turn that into six meeting rooms.

And hopefully financially

we can get to a point here

that we can do that.

[Nelson] Just think

they drank that Rush Kool-Aid,

but it actually made me feel sick.

[Propst] You gotta punch, punch, punch.

Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!

[Propst] You gotta ask yourself,

what do you gotta do today

to win the football game?

[blows whistle] Good!

Good job. Good job. Good job.

[Propst] You got this?

This is an outstanding opportunity.

Give us a chance to be successful.

Thank God for this opportunity.

You got me?

- [players] Yes, sir.

- Don't blow it.

- [man] One, two, three!

- [players] State champ!

[Propst] Good all day?

Good all day?

[Kent] I don't wanna go to Atlanta

and not take care of business.

Leave Buford

with them knowing who Valdosta is.

It's the first time we meet. First time.

They're supposedly

the team of the century.

Everybody's saying

Valdosta's team of last century.

All right, we're about to take it back.

We're about to be the new team.

[blowing whistle]

[players chanting]

Come on, Coach!

When we win it, watch me do that.

- All right.

- Take a knee a minute.

Not a bad day.

I wanna show you something.

I think it's important.

You need to see it.

'Cause I think

sometimes you don't understand.

I mean, you don't really know

what your What a legacy is all about.

Y'all go with me.

Let's go. Stack it up here.

- One, two, three! Four, five, six!

- State champ!

[overlapping chatter]

Look! Take your cleats off.

You're not going with your cleats on.

Trophies. Accolades.

Everything about Valdosta football

sits in this room

for over a hundred years.

Most high schools don't have this.

They can't sit there and brag

on a hundred years of history.

They'll paint pictures of you,

just like that.

You'll be forever here.

There'll be a trophy in here.

Your name in here.

You wanna be put in this room?

That's what these next two games

are about.

It's all about your legacy.

How you wanna leave your legacy.

[pensive music playing]

[Beckham] Two of the most prominent

programs in Georgia football colliding.

The Valdosta Wildcats tangling with

the Buford Wolves in the 6A semifinals.

[Nichols] Valdosta lays

their 2020 season on the line in Buford.

The team finds itself one win away

from a state championship appearance.

- Y'all have come a long way, haven't you?

- Yes, sir.

- Been through a lot?

- Yes, sir.

- But you still here?

- Yes, sir.

'Cause you're Valdosta Wildcats.

That's why.

That's why everybody loves the Wildcats.

But if I have one thing

I wanna say to you tonight

Hit somebody!

Matter of fact, repeat after me

- Hit somebody!

- [players] Hit somebody!

- I can't hear you.

- Hit somebody!

- When we kick this ball tonight?

- Hit somebody!

- We receive this ball tonight?

- Hit somebody!

- When we play defense tonight?

- [players chanting] Hit somebody!

[Mitchell] Hit somebody!

[players cheering]

This is South Georgia!

And you're Valdosta.

When you get out there, you do what?

Hit somebody!

- And everybody say ♪

- [players] Amen ♪

And everybody say ♪

- Amen ♪

- What's in your heart?

- Amen ♪

- What's in your heart?

Amen ♪

And everybody say ♪

Amen, amen, amen ♪

- And all the Cats say ♪

- Amen ♪

- All the Cats say ♪

- Amen ♪

- All the Cats say ♪

- Amen! ♪

Amen! ♪

- Get up!

- Amen! Amen! Amen! ♪

Only team that can beat

the Valdosta Wildcats is who?

- The Wildcats!

- Only time I'm gonna say that.

- Do you want it?

- Yes!

- Do you want it?

- Yes!

- Do you want it?

- Yes!

Hit somebody!

[Propst] All eyes are on this game.

Everybody in this state

is watching this game. Everybody.

Everyone know about the Buford Wolves

and the Valdosta Wildcats.

That's all I've heard is

Buford this and Buford that.

They're defending state champs.

I don't see that.

They haven't played Colquitt County.

Haven't played Warner Robins.

They ain't played Bainbridge.

They ain't played Carrollton.

They ain't played Lee County.

They ain't played those teams.

We're the Valdosta Wildcats.

We've got our 24 state titles.

We've doubled their state titles.

So this is an honor to play in this game,

but, guys, you're one game away

from playing for a state championship.

One game. One game.

I want us to get in there.

I want us to be physical from the start.

And as he said,

I want you knocking the hell

out of somebody all night long now.

And I'm talking about the physical wars

in those trenches now.

I want us to start

as fast as you ever started,

and as the game keeps going,

we just keep getting better.

- [man] Let's go!

- [players cheer]

Hey, it's on! Hey, it's on! Let's go!

[commentator 1] Time for the kickoff!

We are underway with the 6A semifinals.

Kicks to be taken at the six-yard line.

That's Clinkscales

on the return, actually,

up to the 25-yard line.

We cannot miss tackles!

Can't miss! Can't miss!

[commentator 1] As we tak e a look

at Buford on offense

Y'all know what we came to do!

Amari's in motion.

Going up top, going for the home run

on the very first play!

It's caught by Jake Pope. It's a race.

Touchdown Buford

on the first play of the game!

[Propst] He just froze up, Coach.

He's scared to death.

All right, let's answer right here!

Let's answer right here!

Don't worry about it. We're all right.

It's gonna take a lot more than that.

One positive from it is this.

They start the game with that,

they don't think

they can run the ball on us.

Their scoreboard's done, you got me?

They better be glad they got it early.

[Sutton] Okay, don't freak out now

in the army zone stuff.

- Yes, sir.

- Okay?

Yes, sir.

[Amari] Motown! Motown!

[commentator 1] And the run by Jones!

And Jones down across the 40

and all the way to the 36-yard line.

That's one of the things Jones gives them,

the dual-threat quarterback.

- [commentator 2] First down.

- [commentator 1] It was a 16-yard pickup,

and this time, Jones is gonna take a sack.

[Sutton] Let's go army, army.

Zone right squeeze. Zone right squeeze.

Diamond, diamond, diamond!

[commentator 1] Third down and eight.

The ball intercepted.

This could be a pick six.

Off to the races.

Nobody's gonna catch Buford.

And they've got a two-touchdown lead

here in the first quarter.

[Propst] God almighty.

And Valdosta finds themselves

in a deep hole.

[commentator 2]

Can't get it all back at once.

I'm sure that's what Rush Propst

is telling them.

If you shuffle over

and make that throw, he's still running.

- Yes, sir.

- You can't throw through somebody.

- Yes, sir.

- Hey Just, hey! Just

- Just calm down and make a play.

- Yes, sir.

It's all you gotta do.

[commentator 2]

Don't give up the big play,

with this Valdosta offense,

with talented receivers.

[commentator 1]

Jones to the air! And juggled.

It was caught by Javonte Sherman.

[high-pitched ringing]

[man over PA] Number 13,

Javonte Sherman, on the reception.

[coach] There's a player hurt.

To the field!

My [bleep] head!

- [man] You get hit hard?

- Hell yeah.

I'm dizzy as [bleep]!

[man] Sit down.

He may have a little concussion.

- Just need to get him

- [Propst] Yeah. Okay.

- [man] I'll check again in a minute.

- I dunno where he got hit. I can't see

Right across the middle.

When he caught the ball across the middle.

He can't even damn stand up.

[Propst] Yeah. All right.

He don't wanna be out but he can't

[commentator 1] Valdosta desperately needs

to get a first down right here.

So third down and five,

and they'll not get the first down.

Now, let's punt it, let's punt it.

Javonte Sherman has not played.

He's sitting on the bench

and he's wrapped up in a blanket.

- [Sherman] I gotta play.

- [trainer] No, bud.

[Sherman] I got to!

[trainer] You can be mad at me

all you want, but I can't let you play.

[Sherman crying]

[commentator 1] Daniels hands off to Venn.

Venn slicing through the defense,

cuts inside the 15,

races to the pylon!

Touchdown Buford!

[man over PA] Buford!

They ain't gon' stop running it

right at us, now. That's coming.

[commentator 1]

Amari Jones, now gonna run it.

[emotional rock music playing]

He is not gonna pick up the first down.

And now, to the end zone.

Touchdown Buford!

A crazy semifinal tonight

to match this crazy 2020.

You might think that Buford

would be on top in this ball game,

but certainly not 31-nothing.

Let's go fight!

Let's go fight! Okay, baby?

Ain't no freaking quitting this bunch!

You hear me?

I'm gonna keep coaching my a*s off.

You keep playing. Hear me?

We worked too hard to shut her down.

We've gotta get back to us.

Got to win the second half.

Y'all act like these guys

are better than us. They ain't!

If you got any pride about you,

any guts or pride about you

Whether it goes

Whether we make a miraculous comeback,

which I've seen before,

or we go into off-season

and see just who's got guts

and who ain't got guts.

They're not that damn good.

I thought they were a good football team.

They're not. They're just average.

What I wanna see

is how mentally tough you are.

Who's gonna be physical?

Who's gonna get after somebody's a*s

and go play hard? Let's go Let's go see.

- [scattered clapping]

- [indistinct chatter]

[Propst] Pound somebody's a*s!

[commentator 1] Start the half.

Guessing that Rush peeled some paint

in that locker room at halftime.

Nice catch and run by Sanders!

And a big play inside the 20-yard line.

Running towards the pylon.

And touchdown Valdosta!

[crowd cheering]

Let's go do what we do!

Hey! Gotta get the ball out.

- Gotta get the ball out!

- [Propst] Get a start, right now!

[commentator 1]

Buford have it, first and ten.

Another huge hole for Venn.

- Stiff arm!

- It went in!

Right through the defense!

Inside the 20!

Touchdown Buford!

And it's now 37 to 7.

And a big strong answer for Buford.

[Propst] Ain't nobody wanna tackle nobody!

[commentator 1] Third down and ten.

Jones now running.

And throwing on the run, incomplete.

Looking downfield for Aalah Brown.

So now, once again,

you're faced fourth down.

[Propst] What are y'all doing?

What are we doing?

Ervin on the one, and there you go.

Touchdown for Buford,

as they keep tacking it on.

We ain't looking at that scoreboard.

Let's just go score! Let's justgo score.

- Motown! Motown!

- [commentator 1] First and ten.

Double move right here.

Got Sanders out there.

Caught over the shoulder!

Touchdown Tajh Sanders!

The Wildcats made

a nice run here in the playoffs.

They're gonna line up

and try to onside kick.

Buford is able to cover it.

[man over PA] Buford recovers

[commentator 2]

Just a little too late right now

to do anything to get back into this game.

[commentator 1]

Buford back in the state finals

with a 45 to 26 demolition of Valdosta.

[Peak] When I seen the clock run down,

everyone looked broken,

'cause we was almost there.

We was that close

to being state champion.

But we didn't make it.

[commentator 1] Buford's gonna be

in that 6A championship game

against Lee County,

as Valdosta will have to wait another year

to try to get back

to the state finals, it appears.

[Aalah] I was heartbroken. It's just

The hardest thing that I can't grasp.

I never won a state championship.

My high school career is over now.

[Kent] Love you, baby. Proud of you.

I'm very proud of you

and the foundation we laid.

I'm proud of you, baby.

I'll be watching your next chapter.

- Let me know if you need anything.

- You too.

[Kent] Any loss is terrible now.

But when you lose that last one,

you realize that, you know,

your memories with those seniors

This is my last time with these guys.

[Grayson] We made it

further than anybody expected.

I was proud of us.

I will remember the ups and downs

and how we stuck together.

What do you say about this team?

What does this season mean to you?

Um, it's a special team to me.

We've been through a lot,

and I'm sure everybody knows

with the transfers, COVID

We've been through a lot as a team,

and we're a family.

We just gonna go back. Off-season work.

Build on the motivation

next year to win a state title.

- What's up, bruh?

- Your boy got a big future, man.

Y'all played good.

I'm proud y'all. You hear me?

I'm proud of you too, bro.

[woman] Give these Wildcats a hand clap!

Give these Wildcats a hand clap!

We got our winners!

I think we did all we could do

to try to change the culture

of how things have gotta be done,

and I thought we made some strides in it.

I thought we did. You seniors

ought to be proud of yourselves.

So we made a good run,

but we're not fixed.

We're not fixed

in no stretch of the imagination.

We're gonna make sure

we invest in an off-season.

We're gonna invest

in a tough spring practice.

We're gonna invest

in a tough summer work ethic

to make our football team where we don't

happen to us,

what happened tonight.

So that's it in a nutshell, guys.

Again, I think we made huge strides.

We're just not there yet.

But I am proud

of the run we did make, okay?

Let's take the long road

back to Valdosta, okay?

Let's go.

- I'm proud of you.

- Thanks, Coach.

If you didn't have the character you have,

you'd have gave up and quit.

I love you, man.

[uplifting music plays]

[Nichols] That loss to Buford,

just leaves a bad taste in your mouth,

and I'm sure the players

aren't feeling much better.

They got just a minute

to think about what might have been

before they're gonna start getting ready

to try again next year.

[man in doorway] Man,

you need to clean this room up, man.

[Aalah] Don't wanna clean.

[FaceTime ringtone]

- Yo?

- [Morgan] Hello!

What you doing?

Uh, nothing.

How are you doing?

Straight until yesterday.

That was a tough loss, bro.

Hey How come

You got poor connection, bruh.

Uh-uh. You need to fix that connection.

[chuckles]

I got a question though.

All right, bring it.

'Sup?

Do you miss me?

No.

[both laughing]

Come on now, be for real.

But yes, I miss you.

I kind of miss you too.

Kind of?

Yes, of course I miss you.

I mean, you know, the season's over again

I don't know. We can get back together.

Mmm.

We can be friends.

I mean, all right,

we could start right there.

All right.

[laughs]

I guess I'll talk to you later then.

Sorry about your game, boy.

- All right, then.

- For sure.

[bright, optimistic music playing]

Amari, I ain't gonna lie.

You grew up this season.

[girl] He really did.

From the Warner Robins game to this,

I don't know who the old Amari was.

I learned something different every week

from, like, the seniors and stuff.

Me losing last night,

felt like I was a senior.

Bruh, you ain't no senior though.

You don't know how it feels for real.

You could come back and play.

You gonna be able

to put on that helmet again.

I ain't never gonna put on

no more black and gold.

I was crying real tears.

Like, I ain't never do that before.

But next year,

y'all mindset gotta be like y'all want it.

Y'all don't wanna feel how

Y'all seen your seniors crying.

Y'all don't wanna feel like that, bruh.

Since I broke up with Grayson,

I've just stopped,

like, keeping up with him or anything.

Like, I don't care what he's doing.

It's none of my business.

He's not in my life anymore.

I have no idea what's going on

with Zoey and Grayson,

and honestly, I don't care.

I don't have anything against Zoey.

It's just, like

There was a boundary there.

And it was all Grayson.

Like, I know it was all Grayson.

Anyways. I told him I was done.

- And that now he's irrelevant to me.

- [Kaili laughing]

She really just bossed up.

Lenley just kinda

- [Lenley] I'm moving on.

- Good for you.

- She had to realize it wasn't her.

- Yeah.

- Good for you.

- It was Grayson.

- It really was.

- So I don't care!

- Hey!

- I love the fit!

I think this is plain chocolate.

[indistinct chatter]

["Pick You Up" by Lanco playing]

[Lenley] My anxiety has

actually really improved.

I was always

so anxious about him

and everything he was doing,

'cause I couldn't trust him at all.

And so it's just gonna be a lot easier.

[all] Happy birthday dear Lenley ♪

Happy birthday to you! ♪

That was better.

♪misses you with me ♪

[Amari] For me, next year started

the day after we lost to Buford.

But I'm I'm excited

to just lay it out on the line.

My last year of high school

with these guys.

They picked me up.

They watched me grow up as a quarterback.

[Propst] I'm proud

when kids sign scholarships.

I mean, that to me,

is the Super Bowl of the season.

I mean, when signing day comes around

and those kids' lives

are completely changed,

that, to me, is the grand slam.

That's what I wanna know.

How many kids received a degree

and is better off in life

because of football?

And that Ain't that the reason

we're in this business?

In high school football,

you're doing as much raising players

as you are

coaching 'em the game of football.

I'mma do whatever it takes to make sure

I'm starting game one next year.

Second string, I don't wanna

do it this year. It's not fun.

I had to change. Coach Propst taught me

about getting my body right.

Getting faster, like

I feel like I've grown

as the season was going by.

Tonight, I'm going to the Sweet Sixteen

with all my friends, and I'm very excited.

I love getting dressed up

and being able to take pictures

and hang out with everybody.

It's a really big deal at Valdosta.

I'd been planning to go with one date

but decided to make a last-minute change.

It makes me feel good

that Grayson picked me over Lenley.

I'd pick him over anybody.

[Grayson] There's always

a future with Zoey,

but I can't say I'm gonna be

in a relationship with this girl.

I'm a teenage

You You know

You were 16 at one point.

Right? Right? Right, guys?

♪pick you up ♪

[music fades away]

[Nichols] There's trouble, Valdosta folks.

Touchdown Club president, Nub Nelson,

has turned on the Wildcats,

with a secret recording

that, at best, raises a lot of questions

about just what's going on

inside this football program

that we all love so much.

I didn't like the way

Rush was coming in here and doing things.

It hit me when I walked through the door.

I better record this.

I pulled out my my phone

and hit the recorder

and set it in my lap.

The rest is history.

[Nelson] So we gotta find

some funny money.

[Propst] Funny money.

If we're gonna do it right,

we gotta have some

[Nelson] How much funny money

you think we need?

[reporter] The Valdosta High School

football team, hit with fines and bans

all centered around

questionable recruiting.

Well, at first, I was all in.

I did not understand

how much of this recruiting

he wanted to do.

If you can envision yourself

with an envelope full of cash,

meeting someone in a parking lot,

it's kind of a low feeling at that point.

[Beckham] Nub called me,

told me to meet him

in the parking lot of a Waffle House.

And so, as he got into my car, he said,

"Rush Propst won't be the coach

at Valdosta High next fall,

and he doesn't even know it yet."

He started to play for me

parts of the recording.

[Nelson] What we would do

at the Touchdown Club,

we'd all just pitch in and get it done.

[Propst] But there are some things, Nub,

there are some things

you don't even want to know about.

[Nelson] Well, that's still

how I can get you the money.

I can just say, "Look, y'all,

Rush needs some money for this."

We've always done it like that.

[line ringing]

[Stefnie] Hey.

I'm fixing to go in in a minute,

in about five minutes.

Oh. I mean, I don't know, honey.

- [man 1] Fixing to meet Dr. Cason?

- Now, I'm gonna walk in.

If he suspends you, what does that mean?

[bleep], I don't know.

[Cason] What we're going to do is place

you on administrative leave with pay.

Nub is never someone to be trusted.

You got yourself baited by Nub.

- [Propst] I think anybody

- [Cason] That's the bottom line.

The other thing that's a major concern

to me are these kids' eligibility.

[reporter] Five players

connected to the investigation

are now ineligible to play for one year.

The Valdosta football team

is not allowed to participate

in any championship.

If they did take the money,

I don't feel bad for anybody.

It's not right. They did the wrong thing.

Really just ruined

Valdosta Wildcat program.

[Nelson] I knew

there would be collateral damage.

I felt like we gotta do something now

or it's gonna be worse.

The best thing for Rush to do

is go back to Ohatchee, Alabama

and fish

in some little muddy pond.

[chortling]

[sighs]

[Propst] Y'all know what's going on.

Put your phones down.

Me and your mom wanna sit down

and talk to y'all about what's going on.

There's not a lot

of good things going on,

and I just think y'all need to know.

Have you heard

what happened to your daddy today?

I didn't hear anything.

They have said that

I have paid for players' apartments,

and that's really bad. That's a violation.

So that's issue one.

That's issue one.

They got me on tape talking about it.

Nub taped my conversations, last May.

I said some things on there,

and they're not real good.

With that, you know,

there's a full-fledged investigation.

Here's what y'all gotta understand.

There's there's no truth to this stuff.

People are just always after your daddy.

If we all have to

go through this again, it's just

We've been through this before,

two years ago.

- It's mind-boggling really.

- It really is.

I felt like Rush and Stefnie and myself

could have knocked the ball

way out of the park,

but we can't do things

the way they do things.

That recording I made

stuck a fork in him.

- Hey, babe.

- Hi, honey.

- You okay?

- Yeah.

It's gonna be good.

Whatever.

[Stefnie] Love you.

- Nope, this is not the end.

- Nope.

Been fighting my demons

♪ But they ain't fighting fair ♪

But I keep saying

♪ That everything is all right, I swear ♪

All alone in the dark space

♪ Ain't no light in here ♪

What's up is

♪ I might actually like it there ♪

Pouring everything

♪ On this paper my pen is on ♪

Feel like I'm breaking in place

♪ As they put the pressure on ♪

I'm the one in my circle

♪ They all depending on ♪

I do it, though I need these drugs

♪ I've become dependent on ♪

Someone tried to confront me

♪ Now, we don't get along ♪

In my business they trippin'

♪ On foot, I'm slippin' on ♪

They can't reach the pedestal

♪ That my head is on ♪

But truthfully, I've been breaking down

♪ Just finally letting on ♪

Oh, I'm in the middle of

♪ A breakdown, baby ♪

♪ I need you, I need you ♪

Oh, I'm in the middle of

♪ A storm now, baby ♪

I need you, I need you

♪ To come over ♪

♪ Tell me this will be over ♪

[vocalizing]

Oh, I'm in the middle of

♪ A breakdown, baby ♪

♪ I need you, I need you ♪

♪ Crowded space, but I feel alone ♪

Eyes on me at all times

♪ In the judgement zone ♪

Somewhere on the road

♪ I'm missing home ♪

No rest for the wicked

♪ Where could I put a pillow down anywhere ♪

I'm misunderstood

♪ They try to patronize ♪

They judging my ways

♪ But won't empathize ♪

You couldn't walk in my shoes

♪ I'm not telling lies ♪

Just 21

♪ I been running a whole enterprise ♪

[song fades away]