This song is about a nigga
always trying to keep you
down you know
now touch that
We made something from nothing
And vowed to never tear it apart
We turned the street hustle
into an art
That would quickly change
life forever for us
No more riding bikes or
catching the bus
We on the roll up money to fold up
With cognac and cooked yola
Got the neighborhood
about to blow up but hold up
I see this van sittin'
this old cat in a fitted
Trying to get your little
homey tore up
Yo bruh we ain't working on
this corner take your ass on dog
Before you make me feed your ass
to my hogs you fucking faggot
I know you want to catch me
with this bag so you can hide me
Or with my 44 so you can 45 me
You put this shit off
in our neighborhoods
and sweat us
And when you finally catch us up
you give us letters
A cold thing
Just when a nigga reach his gold man
You hand him a case for easing out
the dope game
And I'm
Watching us unfold with the times
He don't really want a nigga to climb
You'd rather separate me
from my family forever
Instead of trying to
keep us together
You motherfuckers would
rather keep me down
So what I rap about these streets
That don't make me be
no less of a man
Than a person that do work
with his hands
It's bad enough I gots to deal
with all these pressures that stand
You tryin' to make me stray away
from my plan
Know what I'm sayin'
I'm from the gutter
where all we had was one another
No wheat bread to butter
from one bed to the other
All uncles and no brother
My mother's at work
My grandfather was my dad
And when he died it hurt
And as I hold back the tears
my eye-wells swell
I been praying for heaven
I been living in hell
And these niggas in my age group
is dead or either locked up
The bitches no better
they smoked out or knocked up
But I still love my hood
that's where it started
Ain't no hard feelings
we partners nigga regardless
That's why you always see me
coming around
Cause I could never
turn my back on my town
But still I'm
Watching us unfold with the times
He don't really want a nigga to climb
You'd rather separate me
from my family forever
Instead of trying to
keep us together
You motherfuckers would
rather keep me down
Watching us unfold with the times
He don't really want a nigga to climb
You'd rather separate me
from my family forever
Instead of trying to
keep us together
You motherfuckers would
rather keep me down
Money never changed me
Money changed the people around
Now they plot to try to
keep me down
But still I rise like yeast
Your whole conversation bout B
Fuck a nigga talking bout me I'm a G
The realest motherfucker
ever done it
You can't continue to pimp me
and y'all eat from it
So fuck every soul who
ever felt like I owed
Them a god damn dime
or a god damn rhyme
or a god damn chance
Motherfucker you sad
You a grown ass man
holding a nigga hand
Now get out on your own
stop depending on your homes
To chuck you a bone
and stop throwing stones
And that goes for everybody
thinking it's them
Fuck you you and you
Her him and him
Tom Dick and Kim
All of y'all stand accused
Saying fuck to me
And I done bought
your children's shoes I'm
Watching us unfold with the times
He don't really want a nigga to climb
You'd rather separate me
from my family forever
Instead of trying to
keep us together
You motherfuckers would
rather keep me down
Watching us unfold with the times
He don't really want a nigga to climb
You'd rather separate me
from my family forever
Instead of trying to
keep us together
You motherfuckers would
rather keep me down