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Yeah, if you come from where we come from

No, we don't ever run from

Getting money in a lump sum just to pay it back later

If the family need a favor then it ain't nothing major

Paper changes hands quicker than a DJ hits the fader

That's just how we do, how we grew, hard to understand

That as a sour youth, mom explaining that you ain't allowed to choose

Your family's your family, they gonna look out for you

Still a Samoan boy, don't forget about your roots

Growing up in AK, where they don't forget their rugby boots

Didn't play much five-eighth

I would play way more Kurupt and Snoop

Play way more Mobb Deep, boom, boom

Say, hey, all my people who been going against the grain

But don't forget 'bout why we really do

What we do, where we came from, got our names from

People I lay next to in the ground when my day comes

Chance to make my music, a gift from me that they brung

Think I ain't proud then you mistaken, oose

That's just how we do, how we're raised, island roots, Auckland ways

People overseas wonder if I'll ever change

But I came from the future

Today is tomorrow

That's why whatever we do

Then the world gonna follow

The world gonna follow

The world gonna follow

Celebrate it with my fam, feel like we just hit the lotto

The world gonna follow

The world gonna follow

Man, I came from NZ, my today is their tomorrow

I got them laid back island genes

I don't need no drama

In my Ie Lava Lava listening to dear mama

With my peers sipping lagers, reminiscing on the years

Made a tears that we shed for the departed disappeared

So, for real Rod see you when I get there

I still got some things that I need to tackle 'bout to get my headgear

Like I'm Thurston or Kronfield, man

I'm certain if things 'round here were perfect

Feel I'd be half the person

I was birthed in Middlemore for a reason

On any day in Auckland, could see all four seasons

So, we're born believing the sky ain't the limit

It's just something to react to

Things are looking cloudy now but the sun will crack through

Umbrella packed too, you can read it like I'm tattooed

Proud of where I'm from, it pulls me back like a lasso

Laugh, how we used to pay for sky before the rent

This that Hamo that Palagi Pito Saute Aukilagi shit

That's just how we do, how we're raised, island roots, Auckland ways

People overseas wonder if I'll ever change

But I came from the future

Today is tomorrow

That's why whatever we do

Then the world gonna follow

The world gonna follow

The world gonna follow

Celebrate it with my fam, feel like we just hit the lotto

The world gonna follow

The world gonna follow

Man, I came from NZ, my today is their tomorrow

That's just how we do, how we're raised, island roots, Auckland ways

People overseas wonder if I'll ever change

But I came from the future

Today is tomorrow

That's why whatever we do

Then the world gonna follow

The world gonna follow

The world gonna follow

Celebrate it with my fam, feel like we just hit the lotto

The world gonna follow

The world gonna follow

Man, I came from NZ, my today is their tomorrow