All My Life (feat. J. Cole)

Durkio told me he been on some positive shit, yeah, yeah

Lately I just wanna show up and body some shit, yeah, yeah

Always been a little mathematician

Lately, it's cash I'm gettin'

Got me losing count of these bags

I been moving too fast

Hard times don't last

Remember when cops harass

Talkin' out my ass

Boy, you ain't shit but a bitch with a badge

All my life (All my life)

They been trying to keep me down (They be tryna keep me down)

All this time (All this time)

I never thought I would make it out (Never thought I'd make it out)

They couldn't break me, they couldn't break me (No, no)

They couldn't take me, they couldn't take me (No)

All my life (All my life)

They been trying to keep me down (They be tryna keep me down)

I decided I had to finish

But the media called me a menace

I done sat with the mayor and politicians, I'm tryna change the image

You can't blame my past no more

I come from the trenches

Some said I'd never be a superstar

But I know I'm different

I'm a voice

But the system ain't give me a choice

Know some people that's still undeployed

I know a felon who tryna get FOID

Child support your only support

For a visit I'm going through courts

Went to jail, they was chaining me up

And you know that I'm famous as fuck

See how you gon' joke about stimulus

But they really had came in the clutch

I know some kids wanna hurt theyself

Stop tryna take drugs, I refer to myself

Tryna better myself

Tryna better my health

But

All my life (All my life)

They been trying to keep me down (They be tryna keep me down)

All this time (All this time)

I never thought I would make it out (Never thought I'd make it out)

They couldn't break me, they couldn't break me (No, no)

They couldn't take me, they couldn't take me (No)

All my life (All my life)

They been trying to keep me down (They be tryna keep me down)

First generation ghetto ****

Cold world, hello ****

Made it out the city with my head on straight

**** keep shooting, let the lead out

Young Jordan Peele, gotta get out

But the shit that I spit out

Is a cheat code like I'm facin' a RICO

And how a **** put a hit out

And another one and, and another one

I got like a hunnid of them

'Bout to lap **** so they think they ahead of me, but I'm really in front of them

Now some of them fumbling they bags

Fuckin' up the little crumbs that they had

A reminder to humble yourself, this shit can be gone in an instant

Me, I'm running long distance

All pistons firing

I be stuck between maybe retiring and feeling like I'm just now hittin' my prime

These days seem rappers be dying

Way before they even gettin' they shine

I never even heard of Lil Buddy

Till somebody murder Lil Buddy

Now I'm on the phone searchin' Lil Buddy name

Got 'em playing his tunes all day in my room

Thinking, "Damn

This shit wicked, to get they names buzzin'

Some **** just gotta go lay in a tomb"

And media thirsty for clicks

I gotta new rule

If you ain't never posted a rapper when he was alive

You can't post about him after he get hit

It's simple

It's the principle

On any tempo

I'm invincible

Don't even rap, I just vent to you

I rather that than an interview

Most days

Fuck 'em all like I'm going through a ho phase

Young **** shoot out the whip like road rage

I pray all of my dogs stay so paid

And the only thing that kill 'em is old age

All my life (All my life)

They been trying to keep me down (They be tryna keep me down)

All this time (All this time)

I never thought I would make it out (Never thought I'd make it out)

They couldn't break me, they couldn't break me (No, no)

They couldn't take me, they couldn't take me (No)

All my life (All my life)

They been trying to keep me down (They be tryna keep me down)