[Verse 1]:
Came up on the north side
Land where the devils play
Coppers turning n*ggas into Caspers on the day to day
n*ggas turning babies into soldiers when them bullets spray
I'm just tryna' make it to the school bus without a scrape
Granny on the porch at 6pm like where my baby at
Hoping that that passive fire (pacifier) ain't blow through my baby gap
Teachers disappointed said I wouldn't touch the 6th grade
6th grade came they said I wasn't seeing 18
18 came, they said I'm dying before 25
All these n*ggas teaching us is how to go outside and die
Then they seem so puzzled when we drop out school to stay alive
I ain't do it, but my n*ggas did, I could never judge
Stay the plug!
School try to put me in a prison n*gga
Say they give a f*ck but I don't see no one assisting n*ggas
Who was there when my lil' n*gga was doing drugs
Tell me who was there when my n*gga mommy was shooting up
Who was there when my mother was getting bruised up
Ain't nobody stop my sister dad from lifting two up
Said I could of caught a body at 11
With a mac 11, 9 on the hip, full clip, send em' all to heaven
Should of hit a lick around 12, I could play in hell
n*gga Stringer Bell, gotta get it now
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[Verse 2]:
Yelling get down on the ground
n*gga spitting rounds
Mangle your body, a blood hound
n*gga unbound
Grew up in a city where kids sing to gun sounds
Pop lock, another body drop where his limbs at
Make a forehead drop where his timbs at
n*ggas say the city getting hot boy it been that
Say I'm turning to a savage, but I been snapped
Clapback, blow his ass back with a wrist snap
Flick of the pen
Empty the cavity
Offer him gravity
Been a product of my city for years
n*ggas bust the block or hug block
Embrace the box, break the box
Break the locks, faces blotched
Children flopped, f*ck the cops
f*cking blocks, busting shot
Make it stop
Pray to God I make it stop
Pray to God I make it out