[Verse 1]

The city crawls of silly broads and many more

I sin for sure, have pity Lord, it isn’t choice

If any more, I’m penny poor with no voice

I feel allure in liquor stores and gettin' whores

The flip of raw will switch friends into enemies

A little war that could twist spin you mentally

I seen good men slip to memories

We woulda popped Crys, not methamphetamines

Off of the centerpiece, reppin' that Chesapeake

Kids know of violence, but they can barely speak

No real therapy, we get it necessarily

Making sure I never think by smokin' on that mary-leaf

Scandalous hoes, and these fraudulent niggas

Couldn’t care for they own, it's all part of the picture

Got no heart in December, no pockets in winter

Some niggas survive, other niggas will give up

That’s the beauty of life, we all been in a fight

If it wasn’t with fists, then it’s one with what's right

Ain’t no love in this nigga, can you handle the price?

Wrong hood and you dead, so I handle the mic

Can’t stay out the ghetto, can’t stay out the prison

How many licks a nigga hit, to them is realism

That hood mentality, can’t understand what's killin' 'em

But shit, I still feel it, sometimes, I’m stealin' 'em

Test my dough or my respect, then I act savage

I still remember when I first clapped an automatic

Just to think how fast a man’s life could be retracted

Had me ready to pop off in every static

Then I realize most cats ain’t built, homie

If you ain’t willin' to die then don’t grill on me

I stay to myself, cause niggas real phony

Once you speaking to beats, you’ll never feel lonely

I did this shit myself, while y'all ain’t potty trained

I’m tryna mob on 'em, I’m in my Gotti lane

With my work ethic, this shit gotta change

The disbelievers can spit-shine the Bugatti paint

I gotta aim, I gotta fam, and I must provide

All this talk of the Illuminati, where can I sign?

I rather give water to Ghana than sell rocks

I rather visit the Grammies before a cell block

[Hook]

Don't ? to 'em

Vi-vi-vi-vi-vi-vi-vi-vi-vivid

[Verse 2]

Paranoia; my life's story in one word

Grip a knife, my only slice of comfort

Stay inside to minimize the gun burst

But my killah side'll slip alive and come first

Funny how you can be popular and feel alone

In my city and I never really feel at home

Is it the skill or the appeal that my will will grow?

Hope to my put city on, just for them to steal to my show

So I view the earth through one eye and less angles

I’m just here to fuck the world and let the sex strangle

That success will box you in like a rectangle

Wanted shine since I was five, singin' the Star Spangled

Can’t let the thing change you, but I don’t gotta cause

And we ain’t talkin' 'bout the money, we don’t got to floss

Just tryna corkscrew they mind 'till they top come off

And light that shit on flames, a brain Molotov

Been said fuck the law, I ain’t need a Wikileak

The government’s corruption all erupted on the city-street

Some wanna live in peace, others gotta live and eat

Flip-a-Key, and all of Virginia isn’t Virginia beach

This life will be the end of me and many more

My enemy that’s mentally, slippin' through every pore

And that stress left a double edge on every sword

Either I'm pushin' for the best, or I'm pennies short

So floored with raw emotions that you can’t record

In accord, I act cold like I’m in a morgue

The less you know about me, the better chance I win the war

Pack my soul in a bottle, let the Philly torch

If you never felt passion, don’t know the half if it

Work, but success is just determined by an asterisk

If you do it for love, need a plan in back of it

Tell 'em bout ya dreams and you’ll only get a laugh from 'em

Some will never understand how much we sacrifice

A steady check, our respect, and our very life

If you ain’t for it, it ain’t important to hear you speak

The type to think they Jordan just for puttin' on his sneaks

[Hook]

Don't ? to 'em

Vi-vi-vi-vi-vi-vi-vi-vi-vivid

Ch-ch-chop; ch-ch-ch-ch-chop

Ch-chop; Ch-ch-chop, chop, chop