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Hometown

by Jackson Whalan

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My rhymes on ‘Hometown’ are honest and introspective. I'm really pouring out how I've been feeling lately: isolated. Hometown is about wanting to be seen for who I'm becoming, not who I used to be.” It’s a lyrical soliloquy over the type of hip-hop beat that I love the most.

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This one's for my hometown everyone who's known me since day one day one
This is for my hometown everyone who's known me since day one

Why're they seeing who I was instead of who I'm becoming
They're the ones getting stuck while I'm attracting abundance
They see me climbing from the valley to the summit
Cuz I been doing this since I was struggling with no budget
My purpose they can't touch it I just love it
I'm building bigger and better so they could never crush it
It's worth it to bump it louder whenever they trying to hush it
They're sick of seeing someone saying something with substance
That's why I'm goal chasing applying business vocation
And it comes natural like the earth's rotation
I went from living in basements to a place that's so spacious
Scripting pages when these haters making me anxious
Can't handle the fact that I'm steady projecting greatness
I got not enough friends too many familiar faces
Vague acquaintances it's hard to live with openness
These days I'm only keeping company with associates
The amount of beats we make in the studio is copious
The reason I'm so focused cuz the music biz is odious
Could tell you that I'm dope but instead I'm gonna show you this
Never going broke again I've been so close to homelessness
Big like notorious the path is laborious
In a state of holiness, like a monk thelonious
I'm from a town that tries to disguise hopelessness
Where it's not uncommon for your friends to die from opiates
At the same time people farming living harmonious
Plus we've been stuck inside getting acquainted with loneliness
I've been searching for my voice and now I'm honing this
Making boom bap in the forest and I'm owning it
Whale up in the ocean they can barely stay afloat in it
Lots of suffering in the world tell me how you cope with it
I take control of my destiny microphone I'm holding it
Feeding you inspiration hoping that you go home with it

This one's for my hometown everyone who's known me since day one day one
This is for my hometown everyone who's known me since day one
This one's for my hometown everyone who's known me since day one day one
This is for my hometown everyone who's known me since day one

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released March 4, 2022
Produced by Jackson Whalan & Ian Evans
Lyrics and vocals by Jackson Whalan
Mixed by Jackson Whalan
Mastered by Bob Macchiochi

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