Mom and dad never made much to get flashy things for the boy

Scrubbing white men floors

Daddy always not home

I ain't really his but the whole knows me as his boy

Realest **** I know, he the father I know

Yeah yeah

Yeah yeah

Yeah yeah

Yeah yeah

Yeah yeah

Yeah yeah

I grew up with thugs, daggers and guns

Hanging on thighs, they stay in the dark

Contemplating on a felony

This will always be a part of me

OG's in the streets know that I am the shit

OG's in the streets thug hard for them bills

I'm unemployed but I got a daughter that I have to make sure she eats

I got to stay on my feet

My whole fam in need

Whole squad believes

True friends indeed

Aim is to see

Better days and eat

I've been hungry and I have been stressing about it

Never chilling doing something about it

Mom works heavy and I ain't happy

Baby girl need new nappies

Winter here need no tekkies

I was told son go get it

I wasn't made for a corner office but all of the sudden everything just changed

Me and my dad couldn't get along

All of the sudden he lost it all

He had to go back to the drawing board

Need to finish building our home

Need to finesse how to get it all

Especially now that I'm twenty-four

I have probably seen it all

I did my rights and I did my wrongs

I've been learning from everything

Truth is, you can't have everything

All of you want and you don't

All of this suffering and all

This ain't nothing, got to keep thriving

Keep it a hundred, keep my mind sharpened

Look where we started, my days been the darkest

But the get brightened

By all of this will and energy that I invest in my hustle

It burns like a furnace

Brighter than the light at the end of the tunnel

Makes it easier to deal with the turmoil

Got to speed up and put it on turbo

Stretch all my muscles and flex like a tendon

The code and the fam I'm whom they depend on

I keep the grip firm and squeeze on them lemon yeah

I've been in a whole for a while when i get out I'll be carrying gold

It's going to take some time, got to try hard that's what I've been told

I'm trying to make peace with the past, i don't have time to spend on the old

Going an extra mile for a headstart in race all alone