Keep Me Down

We made something from nothing

And vowed to near tear it apart

We turned the street hustle into an art

That would quickly change life forever for us

No more riding bikes or catching the bus

We on the roll up, money to fold up

With Cognac and cooked yola

Got the neighborhood about to blow up, but hold up

I see this van sitting, this old cat in a fitted

Tryna get your little homey tore up

Yo bro, we ain't workin' on this corner

Take your ass on, dog

But you make me feed your ass to my hogs, you fuckin' faggot

I know you wanna catch me with this bag so you can hide me

Or with my .44 so you can .45 me

You put this shit off in our neighborhoods and sweat us

And when you finally catch us up, you give us letters

A cold thing

Just when a **** reach his goal, mayne

You hand him a case for easing out the dope game

And I'm

Watching us unfold with the times

He don't really want a **** to climb

You'd rather separate me from my family forever

Instead of tryna keep us together

You motherfuckers would rather keep me down

So what I rap about these streets

That don't make me be no less of a man

Than a person that do work with his hands

It's bad enough I gots to deal with all these pressures that stand

You tryna make me stray away from my plan

Know what I'm sayin'?

I'm from the gutter, where all we had was one another

No wheat bread to butter, from one bed to the other

All uncles and no brother, my mother's at work

My grandfather was my dad and when he died, it hurt

And as I hold back the tears, my eye wells swell

I've been praying for heaven, I've been livin' in hell

And these **** in my age group is dead or either locked up

The bitches no better, they smoked out or knocked up

But I still love my hood, that's where it started

Ain't no hard feelings, we partners ****, regardless

That's why you always see me comin' around

'Cause I could never turn my back on my town

But still I'm

Watching us unfold with the times

He don't really want a **** to climb

You'd rather separate me from my family forever

Instead of tryna keep us together

You motherfuckers would rather keep me down

Watching us unfold with the times

He don't really want a **** to climb

You'd rather separate me from my family forever

Instead of tryna keep us together

You motherfuckers would rather keep me down

Money never changed me

Money changed the people around

Now they plot to try to keep me down

But still, I rise like yeast

Your whole conversation about B

Fuck a **** talkin' 'bout me, I'm a G

The realest motherfucker ever done it

You can't continue to pimp me and y'all eat from it

So fuck every soul who ever felt like I owed

Them a goddamn dime

Or a goddamn rhyme

Or a goddamn chance

Motherfucker, you sad

You a grown ass man

Holdin' a **** hand

Now get out on your own

Stop depending on your homes

To chuck you a bone

And stop throwin' stones

And that goes for everybody thinkin' it's them

Fuck you, you, and you

Her, him, and him

Tom, Dick, and Kim

All of y'all stand accused

Sayin' fuck to me

And I done bought your children's shoes

Watching us unfold with the times

He don't really want a **** to climb

You'd rather separate me from my family forever

Instead of tryna keep us together

You motherfuckers would rather keep me down

Watching us unfold with the times

He don't really want a **** to climb

You'd rather separate me from my family forever

Instead of tryna keep us together

You motherfuckers would rather keep me down