Hook:

I was 17 running up my pedigree in the streets

Tryna make it happen for the bucks

Wasn’t no guarantee that I would find my everything in shorty

But I met the C.R.E.A.M

That’s where I found love

Making moves with the jewels that they learned from skipping school

In a jam, some of us just wound up

But I kept my record clean chasing ultra light beams

Pray I'm blessed to get the team to living good

It’s been a minute now

Verse 1:

My cousin called his office all the blocks where wires shoe-laced

He told me earn ya badges in the streets, not in 2k

Too skinny for the food chain

Can almost slip through food strain

My brain my biggest muscle, even if the crime do pay

Temp tatted hustler on my body

Screaming scholarship

Save allowance for FAFSA

Just in case my merit dropped a bit

Collecting cans to rent a venue

Flip the cover, profit quick

And hide it in my shoebox 'fore the gangsters come to pocket pick

Like reverend every Sunday

Jesus charging for a meet and greet

No disrespect, I’ll keep my ten percent so I can feed my needy

Dollar menu keep me cheesing between all these runs

From flipping t-shirts out the trunk to designated driving bruhs

Who asthma pumping reefer lungs with albuterol

They did it in mama’s house now they calling on U to Haul

Listen, stay sober to move em all

Past the high and hymens

If we can supply the dope

We can buy out the iron islands

I’m voyaging

Finding rhyming to be the bread and butter

Get us out that jam and build the type of funds that turn the burbs to just a block of land

Rolling dice with the roosters

I’m up early profit plan

Till they think that we moving birds

‘cause all my niggas flock with bands

Damn

Hook:

I was 17 running up my pedigree in the streets

Tryna make it happen for the bucks

Wasn’t no guarantee that I would find my everything in shorty

But I met the C.R.E.A.M

That’s where I found love

Making moves with the jewels that they learned from skipping school

In a jam, some of us just wound up

But I kept my record clean chasing ultra light beams

Pray I'm blessed to get the team to living good

It’s been a minute now

Verse 2:

I was tryna blow like Biggie’s diaphragm

Between the Bad and Boujee where I fall in your venn diagram

I chose the crack commandments over Lord’s words

The sabbath meant some more work, more worth

Ironically all paid by by the boy church

Busting missions in the parking lot to sell the service out

Them dvd’s were moving

Commission lucrative

Running fast as fugitive to make deposits

Only kept a hundred in my hand, help daddy save for college

Buying plates of jollof

Spend it with my color to maintain Ujamaa

So our block can ward off gentrifiers on they way to flock in

'specially in Leimert

Damage done can’t reverse

Try to hold on to our culture, gone too soon - Gerald Levert

What’s it worth? If you tricking off your funds and opportunities

Instead of building up some cash flow with some continuity

Impunity when building up your team around you

Filling up the seams to soundproof from these eavesdroppers

Who tryna steal on all your how-to’s

My homie say I'll have a statue landmarked

He can see the future guess he smoking on that bran stark

Got to see it through

Taking measures with my diet

Whole foods lowered prices

Fortify my handcart

Damn right I play my hand smart

Gone

Hook:

I was 17 running up my pedigree in the streets

Tryna make it happen for the bucks

Wasn’t no guarantee that I would find my everything in shorty

But I met the C.R.E.A.M

That’s where I found love

Making moves with the jewels that they learned from skipping school

In a jam, some of us just wound up

But I kept my record clean chasing ultra light beams

Pray I'm blessed to get the team to living good

It’s been a minute now

I was 17 running up my pedigree in the streets

Tryna make it happen for the bucks

Wasn’t no guarantee that I would find my everything in shorty

But I met the C.R.E.A.M

That’s where I found love

Making moves with the jewels that they learned from skipping school

In a jam, some of us just wound up

But I kept my record clean chasing ultra light beams

Pray I'm blessed to get the team to living good

It’s been a minute now