Hate the place that I'm in I wish that I could leave like why they think this shit is cool?, (why?)

I coulda been going to uni and doing what my mother want me to do

Sorry momma, I dropped outta school, (zab)

Now your baby is picking this life

I be spending my time in the stu and if it don't work then I'm picking a knife and gripping it tight like I used to do

It ain't hard for me to take a life, (nah)

For the money I'd do what I'd do, for my fam it ain't no thinking twice

I know a **** from the hood, he was cool, who woulda thought that he'd be doing life?

And it was all for some shit he ain't do, how is the judge even sleeping at night?

This shit isn't right

Where I'm from, it's corrupted

Growing up, no, I didn't have nothing, (none)

Why I do what I do, you ain't been in my shoes, shut the fuck up you shouldn't be judging, (shh)

Fuck the feds, why they hate on my cousin? bugging, I'm hoping he leave or do something, (damn)

And they stopping my **** L.A. for some dumb shit, they keep on making assumptions, (fuck)

Overthinking, I'm mentally drained, yet I be saying I'm okay

Where I'm from you get put in the grave, or you live in a cell, to me it's none of both ways

Both ways, they show me love but it's all fake

They know I'm hard but they won't say it, came a long way from hood and nah

Still in the hood but I'm grinding now

I never had it, I want it all

Tryna argue, let my choppa talk, (nah, nah, nah)

What you know about poverty? (what?), For 2 years I been wearing the same clothes

I don't care for myself so that everything else could be good and whatever's surrounding me

Tryna make sure that my momma proud of me

Seen my younger brother cry to sleep having nothing to eat and that broke the inside of me

Made me say "I want it and I gotta be"

Where I'm from, it ain't no opportunities, (none)

All we know is go pick up a knife and get money from white then do time where the shooters be

You can't be what momma wanted you to be

All my people locked up, it ain't new to me

I don't wanna end up where it's dark and corrupt

Fuck a noose on my neck, I want jewelry

Everyday a struggle, shit is fueling me

Shit is hurting me, seen my brother switch up to a snake and I thought it's absurd to me, (ezebi?)

All the food on my plate never went in my mouth 'till I made sure you ate and I certainly

Even tried to put you on at times when the shit that's going on at mine ain't the best for me

I looked out for you, I almost died for you, so where the fuck is you getting this jealousy? (where?)

Overthinking, I'm mentally drained, yet I be saying I'm okay

Where I'm from you get put in the grave, or you live in a cell, to me it's none of both ways

Both ways, they show me love but it's all fake

They know I'm hard but they won't say it, came a long way from hood and nah

Still in the hood but I'm grinding now

I never had it, I want it all

Tryna argue, let my choppa talk, (nah, nah, nah)

"Yeah, this is the hood, ****, this is the hood, where you from, that is not the hood, this is the hood, this is where **** really suffer every single day, this is poverty, ****"