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Album: The Off-Season (2021)
Charted: 25 8
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  • [Intro]
    I'm a livin' little good thing
    It's like you never lived for me
    Mama said you was a good thing, uh
    Good, good, good
    Yeah
    We came a long way, man, we done came a long way
    And we sittin' on top of this s**t
    This s**t can go one or two ways
    This s**t can go up, it can go down
    Either way, n***a, I'm prepared
    Feel me? Yeah
    [Verse]
    I be comin' in peace, but f**k me
    Best beware of the others
    This s**t deep, undercovers creep
    This Southern heat make unbearable summers
    Just last week, seen your mama weep
    Crying 'cause she don't wan' bury your brother
    The blood leaks while th? EMTs
    Gotta carry her baby like surrogate moth?rs
    Woah, thank God we survived around where the terrorists hovered
    Though traumatized, wouldn't trade it for nothin'
    Through hard times, it was there I discovered a hustle
    And makin' the best out the struggle
    I kept grindin' 'til this day, up a level
    Respect mine, gotta stay out of trouble
    'Cause TEC-9's like the AR rebuttals
    Cole World, n***as knowin' what it is
    Just in case they don't, I show 'em what it is
    Then in summer, I do real numbers
    Couldn't dare touch it if they sold the double disc
    Block hot, n***as burnin' up the street
    Shots poppin' and we heard it up the street
    It's a war, n***as runnin' up the score
    Jesus said that you should turn the other cheek
    Voiceless n***as gettin' murdered every week
    Dead bodies, smell the odor in the street
    My homie' homie got out on parole
    He sold more Coca-Cola than the soda industry
    Summertime bring the coldest winter breeze
    Hella blues like the Rollin' 60's
    Christ went to Heaven aged thirty-three
    And so did Pimp C and so did Nipsey

    [Outro]
    I told you, I told you
    This s**t can go up, it can go down, I don't give a f**k
    N***a, I done seen the highest heights
    I done seen it twice
    And I've seen them lowest of the lows
    And still I rose
    Now I'm at your neck, n***a, yeah
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