[Verse]

Way before I had the underground moving

Way before I started boolin'

We was writing in the class going stupid

Way before I knew Curtis

Way before I saw curtains

Wasn't even tryna get the shit perfect

Only thing that mattered was the songs when it surfaced

Protools or not didn't matter we was working

Super skinny denim, that was way before the jerking

All I thought about was ballin', I ain't talking bout how Irving

Nigga get it we was spitting ever since I was a seed

All I knew that I was gifted had my mind on a pedestal

'Cause I was never lifted

Focused on the lyrics way before the culture shifted

All I wanted was somebody to listen

But I don't like complaining, I ain't really into bitching

But times got rough, I mean times started switching

Only reason we was eating and had food in the kitchen

'Cause the EBT showed me named brands & we was trippin'

Moving like the postal cause we really got evicted

I remember like it's nothing, we was moving on a Christmas

Moving out of town they looking at me like I'm different

Pops ain't called a nigga since he was a midget

Crazy how the closest people to you can be so fucking distant

And that's probably why I started banging hard

Fingers twisted in the air, grew some dreads in my hair

Just to show you that I don't give a fuck when you approach me

And don't call me Andre, nigga that's the old me

To keep the shit a buck, I don't even really know me

Couldn't recognize myself if you forced me and showed me

Thinking bout, going out hard like I'm Kobe

But they treat me like I'm just another player like Ginobli

20 on my back as it approach me

Still a teenager, but I'm feeling like a vet

So when you talk about the kid, on my name show respect

Niggas know I'd take one for the game, no vest

And thats till the fucking day that I finally get to rest

19 years, if I die I never slept

And I left behind a masterpiece, nigga I'm the best

Fear none but God, got it tatted on my chest

And you know I'm bout the funk and I never had to flex

That's a blood reference, studying the game, I mean really rap lessons

Niggas got better and it's still no progression

Who run the city, my nigga, not a question

Only letting you lil niggas breathe, my blessings

But I can drop some shit today and stop the whole section

I'm the only nigga left, with a muthafucking message

And don't say you slept on a nigga, you was slept in

Labels picked up some niggas, nigga I was left in

Whole fucking cause of this stupid ass depression

Is the rap fucking game, got a nigga fucking stressing

Who you know putting niggas on like it's nothing?

Who you know got yo favorite lil niggas buzzing?

Who you know really put work in blooding?

And who you know can still can get down with the cousins?

Mama don't like my music now cause I'm cussin' but

This to heal the pain I ain't talking robitussin

I done seen it all, Idol niggas really turn pussy

If I ever told a lie, tell them folks to come book me

They don't care about lyrics, promoters never book me

Tell XXL it's too late to be a rookie

Tell these damn labels that it's too late to overlook me

Cause after this shit, they planning to overbook me

12 mixtapes, they was sleeping my nigga

After this I'm hitting licks if I ain't eating my nigga

Running up, Ice Cube'ing to your meeting my nigga

With a 30 fucking clip and it's skeeting my nigga

Last year I almost died and I'm still screaming fuck that

Niggas getting hungry and they want to know where the buck at

Hard my nigga? Boy you everything but that

Staying in the studio, you nothing but a tough act

Bitch I'm from Atlanta, I can show you where some tough at

Nigga fuck your BB Gun, I'll show you where to bust at

I'ma come clean, you can do everything but rap

This my shit nigga, die quick nigga

And if I don't get a grammy off this shit then they racist

Niggas really rapping but they only know who Drake is

No disrespect but I put it on my set

If I sign to OVO the whole world gon' fucking play this

I ain't tryna get a check, I'm just trying to be the greatest

All praise to Jehovah, I don't really know who Jay is

I ain't being disrespectful, but I ain't really playing

But i'll die before you call yourself the greatest

Fuck you saying nigga

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I'm the--

I'm the

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