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Raise The Price

from More Than My Skin by Tres Carter

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I got like 50 texts day I raised the price
If it was they check you would say that’s nice
But because it’s mine, they try to analyze
Wanna criticize, try to minimize
But wasn’t there when I was doing this on the side
Enrolled in school part time working full-time
3 years of that, add two kids to that
Remove my mom from that
I had to stay on track

Then I graduate, many congratulate
Birthday celebrate, had just turned 28
I took bout $30k, opened up a space
Still had my 9-5, it took a lot of faith
6 months of grinding, put ridiculous time in
God’s fire inside me, amazing wife behind me
She held me down, investor called me up
$50k down, he said let’s LEVEL UP
We blew Gahanna up, we hit Atlanta up
we selling suits now, it’s all on camera
We raised the standard up
Molina came to us
Suit display in Cosi, man that’s what’s up
Put you front row at the fashion show
Across from Eva Pigford, she thanked the vendor
Venus and Mars, hold the applause
impossible odds, you incredible God

Raise the price, I pay the tithe
Many sleepless nights, still I’m energized
Did Dreaming with Dreamers, Columbus Sneakerball
Radio 1 award, what up Yav boy
What up T-Gray, what up rio from Tackma,
A lot people ask me, “Tres is that your jacket?”
I came through, you always showed loved
Columbus did too, we ain’t even year two

We 18 months in, Presley flew in
I put the team on, they collab with her
I just played host, at the end said a toast
7 days later, Babyliss is on my phone
They made an offer, that I just couldn’t refuse
Pack your bag D, Long Beach you coming too!
Raise the price, I pay Sam directly
He is not my Uncle, really I can’t stand him
But I do respect him, pay him what he’s owed
I also pay a CPA to help me find the holes
Can we exploit that? Run it by the lawyer
He said it’s legal, pacified my paranoia

Raise the price
Just say you can’t afford it
Not it’s not worth it
Because YOUR pockets hurting
Like I don’t deserve it
Like I didn’t earn it
The only God that matters got me here on purpose
You see me working, boy

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from More Than My Skin, released June 23, 2020

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“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

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