Self-Made Satellite

This track comes from pure ambition — the boss-mode mindset that builds empires before breakfast. It tackles Being a self-made person orbiting a world that didn't make room for you. You had to launch yourself. The loneliness and triumph of doing it alone.. The lyrics get specific — "Looking down at all the people who said I'd never leave home" — because personal tracks on Majik's are personal for real, not performatively. The hip-hop production matches the energy of the confession. It hits ambitious and soaring, in that order. Every personal track in the catalogue comes from a real moment, a real feeling, a real person. This one is no exception.

[verse 1] Nobody launched me, I built my own rocket No connections in my contacts, no gold in my pocket Just a Navy discharge and a hunger in my gut And a stubbornness that wouldn't let me keep my own mouth shut When they said stay in your lane, I said I'll build a highway When they said take the safe road, I went my way Self-made satellite, orbiting alone Looking down at all the people who said I'd never leave home [chorus] I'm a self-made satellite, spinning on my own Built my orbit from the ground up, bone by bone No one handed me the altitude, no one gave me wings I just kept on climbing until I heard the atmosphere sing Self-made satellite, yeah it's lonely up this high But the view was worth every single goodbye [verse 2] Founder means you found it, found the way when there was none CTO means you're the chief when you're the only one Magic Unicorn Technology, sounds like a fairy tale But every fairy tale starts with someone in a cell Who decided that the walls were just suggestions, not the end Who decided that the story doesn't need their permission to begin [chorus] I'm a self-made satellite, spinning on my own Built my orbit from the ground up, bone by bone No one handed me the altitude, no one gave me wings I just kept on climbing until I heard the atmosphere sing [bridge] But self-made doesn't mean you don't get tired Self-made doesn't mean you don't get scared It means when you fall there's no net beneath you Just the same two hands that got you there And sometimes at night I wonder what it's like To have someone else believe before you take the flight [verse 3] But I'm up here now, eight-four-three below me glowing Folly Beach, the lighthouse, the Atlantic Ocean flowing And I built this view from nothing but a will Self-made satellite, and I'm still climbing still [outro] Still climbing Still orbiting Still self-made And that's the proof