[Intro]

We make it harder than it has to be...

[Verse 1]

Another day here another lesson learned

I can’t believe the way these people I respected turned

I was there at every call and beck, while they were less concerned

I guess it's back to hustling collect a check and earn

It’s a cold world like GZA said

We betting on our every outcome so pick a spread

We all tryin' to get fed

Hope mine will get me bread

Instead I’m dodging leeching scheming demons every evening like Night of the Living Dead

My vision infrared I can see through your body

Opened my all seeing eye like I’m illuminati

My intuition head strong, I don’t know who can stop me

I’ve become like the Teflon zombie like I’m exhuming Gotti

Confident and cocky gotta be to get along

Spent way too many years putting up a façade

That’s before I got betrayed by like half of my squad

Had to learn the hard way

I really don’t belong among thieves

These money hungry junkies

Tried to get me done over cheese

And wrapped in sheets

Just like a fucking mummy

But they did nothing to me

I saw it coming with ease

Easy to spotting snakes when you’ve been stuck in the weeds

[Interlude]

Come on now

Yo my people (my people)

Y'all let me down - fuck back in the day

Yeah, yeah yeah

Gonna learn some lessons around here

Know what I'm sayin'?

[Verse 2]

See, you gotta walk around with a poker face

And look over your shoulder, move at a slower pace

And know your place

See if I was moving too fast

I wouldn't even see the opportunities I blew past

Or the target on my back

I turned around to rats plotting while smiling at me

It was shocking when I found they were trying to trap me

I don’t got much love for the ones I came up with

Only a few solid heads in my crew that I stuck with

Some loyal cats I can break bread and share funds with

Got one above in the sky, but the rest of them jumped ship

Reaching back to pull out that blade feeling betrayed I can’t shake it

All of the loyalty I had displayed and staked my reputation

Thrown in my face for showing love, my homies show me hatred

At whoever wanna play tricks, I’m breaking out the matrix

Learned to dodge shots like I’m Lomachenko

Evading the chasing ops like I’m Ochocinco

I’ve earned the stripes of a Bengal

From battle in this concrete jungle where being humble’s a struggle

It only got me trouble

I had to learn to mellow out

Got stories of betrayal I could tell you 'bout

Bros that'll sell their soul just to sell you out

So I settled down and dreamed of heading out

With bigger plans

Launch a brand, lay a feast on my family table

Focus on the grind set my kids up to be financially stable

I’m on my grown man shit

And if you ain’t on this level yet you won’t understand it

[Outro]

Behind every destructive habit, there is always a feeling of frustration and a lack of self confidence

So it is important to understand what causes these destructive habits