I'd text Jay, seventh grade

"Meet me at the corner shop"

He'd be in there in ten

Ringin' all the quarters up

And throw a pack of forties in

Slide him twenty off the top

We were barely fourteen then

But dude knew we were from the block

Text Ary, "What's the lookout?"

Hit back, "What club to book out?"

Mish and I been on a mission

Textin' him like, "Get the rook out"

I call that movin' straight

All my boys been movin' weight since age three

Different dogs, same breed

Things change, I stay me

Gossip like it's page three

Show up with the entourage

You'd think that life was picture-perfect HD

No 360s, I make Ps, don't make peace

And all the boys that's fallin' off

Are pilin' on like Adi's out here rakin' leaves

I'm makin' movies

And my approval rating's through the roof

And the more I shoot

It seems the tighter-knit begin to loosen

If my crew torn apart, I start to feel I'm in a soup and

The ones I knew from ground up

Not the ones that's out here routin'

The game is ruthless

You act a nuisance, and it's through

You know it's useless when best friends

Won't even manage you

Question faith they had in you

I text Raul, "It's sad, but true"

Try to cut 'em in, but they don't want nothin' to have with you

I'm fallin'

I texted K the other day

Another sorry, same story

Don't know why I hurt the ones

Willing to take the pain for me

Mom the only one I call

She say, "Pick a lane already"

Maybe I'm the one who change too much

I take the blame for it

No indicator on

I'm pushin' things to later on

Friends say I don't talk much

Same ones don't play my songs

Go to clubs and play along

I don't wanna be out no more

Like, what the fuck I'm celebrating?

Twenty-two, and nothin' changin'

Not a single thing to my name

Except a few singles and signings

I was so caught up in by-lanes

I'm riding solo, I'm driving

My mind is so low

Arriving at the same corner store from before

Alone this time

I haven't felt this lonely in the longest time

I walk behind, past the sign sellin' Henny-Goose

Exchange a few words with the dude

I'd slid a twenty to

I hand him 20k

He hands me a 22