Abstract

Released: December 25, 2012

Songwriter: Abstract

[Chorus]
Presidents to represent me (get money!)
I'm out for presidents to represent me (get money!)
I'm out for presidents to represent me (get money!)
I'm out for dead fuckin' presidents to represent me

[Verse]
Headed to makin' in Chicago till I'm ballin' like a bowl
Y'all can keep your shit, I flip scripts like bricks with my audible
Whips crack on wack MCs that lack passion
Talk about some shit they never had, it's purely a distraction
How I'm reactin', probably laughin'
At the fact that what I'm mappin'
A test, where few in the end will actually grasp what I mean
That winning [Sheen from shining dreams?] ain't everything it seems
This slave will lock you out your mind and try to toss the keys
Leave you in the cold, demand a hand to have you fold
What goes on inside the mind you find is often tried but never told
They often grind but never mold
Find that power that we hold
Tryna shine a piece of nothin' till you turn that shit to gold
And that's the meanin' of our lives
That bird be worth the dirt that got plants reachin' for the skies
And on our way up, these weeds will try to criticize
Try to feed off of our struggle without makin' sacrifice
So you gotta learn to hold your own
Remember who you are when that your roots is always home
Let it be known that if that place is one day gone
Stay strong, move ahead, use that pain to conquer like you still on
'Cause we say that road they lay is rocky
Yes, we born original, but some gon' die a copy
I ain't with it, I'll be different; so, see, that statistic's not me
In it till the finish, who the hell think that they gon' stop me?

[Chorus]
Presidents to represent me (get money!)
I'm out for presidents to represent me (get money!)
I'm out for presidents to represent me (get money!)
I'm out for dead fuckin' presidents to represent me

Growing up in New Jersey, Luke Terkovich, otherwise known as Abstract, was involved with music at an early age. Learning how to play piano, electric guitar, and the drums were Luke’s first involvement with music — and he did it all before 6th grade. With a move across country from New Jersey to Jackson, Wyoming, the distance between learning and playing new instruments got larger. It wasn’t until several years later that Luke began to mess around with freestyling during his high school years spent at Jackson Hole High. Evolving his newly found musical expression into Raised in Jackson, WY, Abstract is known for his immense musical versatility and affinity for providing uplifting music for a turbulent world. With a knack for storytelling, he provides introspective motivation to all who take the time to dive into his work. Notably known for his remix of Ruth Bs Lost Boy “Neverland” which has garnered hundreds of millions of plays on YouTube, his work with Drumma Battalion and Roze, and his 2016 album Something to Write Home About. He heads a collective known as “A Team Worldwide” 5 musicians from 4 different countries. Producers Drumma Battalion of Norway, Blulake of Sweden, Cryo Music of Scotland, and Abstract. Coming off his first overseas tour with YONAS, the ATWW collective is gearing up to drop Abstracts new album/experience late summer 2018.writing detailed lyrics, he began to find that he could vent the stresses of his everyday life through creating music. Slowly progressing through the years of his new town where he calls home; balancing school, life, and music developed Luke to become Abstract.

Trying to find his sound was a young teenager who just looked to get something written down and then translated into music, and eventually rap. Still in his caterpillar stage of metamorphosis was a young Abstract who released his first ever collection of songs, properly named The Dream.

In 2012, through YouTube, Abstract met Craig McAllister, a producer from Glasgow, Scotland. During that period, Abstract was in the midst of working on On My Own Time and was the first time Craig showed up with Abstract. Afterwards, the duo started to mesh extremely well and produced the five projects, Under Lights & Microscopes, A Life To Live By, Dreaming With Eyes Open, The Science Of Feeling Tall, and We Are The Artist.

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