Pride came before fall. Winter we went on a tour Now every season is summer and some of you niggas will never get warm Now every meeting is money an money is time and that shit be passing like Kidd So it's blow up like the challenger or blow a calendar paying to play on them gigs Free need diapers (right there) Je got half the rent (right there) So i'ma need half up front and the rest behind or you can have a seat right there The fuck we got to talk about? You ain't met my mama, can't get me no money, wunt there when the Floor was falling out Now the flow thru the ceiling and niggas been hearing the vision of course they calling out Neither name nor number changed nigga just time And that's another conversation for another rhyme Less the currency exchange next to a J&Ls, next to a Food and Liquor over on the east side, right there by the lake, otherwise I'm fine If you aint paid tithes you probably ain't know like yes Y'all the best, that's all of my time god bless I was sixteen dropping off checks I was sixteen dropping off checks I was sixteen dropping off checks Pay me what you owe me baby, pay me my respect I was sixteen dropping off checks I was sixteen dropping off checks I was sixteen dropping off checks Pay me what you owe me baby, pay me my respect Pride came before fall. Spring was when free was born J'd down a G in the summer nah none of these weak [edit] can get on Now every meeting is time and time is money, so why I got more of the latter? Feeling like Jacob was fighting my faith for so long now none of that petty shit matter Finding my way been like finding the remote, that's a pretty good quote gotta jot that Nigga what you need always under yo nose, shit I never really prayed til the day my pop passed Good weed always helped me cope and good genes always helped me grow The high road less paved but it's on my way let em crane they neck like a car crashed And it's hard plastic on fire, concrete, black tar, glass but I'm fine Tall, black, name all caps and l'm back like bra straps and y'all lack that fire Make a nigga run for it [edit] look back at it That's a god damn hook Make a nigga run for it [edit] look back at it That's a god damn hook Make a nigga run for it [edit] look back at it Thats a gaaadamn hook

How you gon grow sumn with no core, grind sumn with no board, build sumn with no bricks, How you gon see sumn with no shore, win sumn with no war, start sumn with no bench, How you gon stay afloat with no or, open sumn with no doors, stand out with no niche How you gon live right with no laws, live life with no cause, smarten up and grow rich Ima get paid, ima make it on, ima change the game, ima put on for my niggas I ain't playin, im just saying what they told me. Ima tell it how they told me Ima make waves, ima run the road, ima switch lanes, ima stunt on all these niggas and these lames, I'm just saying what they told me. Ima tell it how they told me! No room for no weak mogs on my team god hold up Activated my shit round thirteen dawg hold up Gave up on that skit round oh three like hold up Came back with a whole god damn team dawg hold up Played stages these fuccboys can't dream god hold up Paid dues these huff blogs ain't seen dawg hold up Made news from LA to NYC dawg hold up But page views ain't paid out much green wait hold up Pay pub, press merch, mix and buy beats nigga for whut? You ain't got no plan to make back fees boy slow up Pay to play the game same way that you seen mogs blow up But everything ain't the way it say and that way it stay sown up Whole time yo day to day ain't the same as there's so bruh Do this shit on yo own, define what's on and then show up Work it off like a zone, re-up and indulge only so much Invest in yo squad, publishing, law, nigga own up No room for no weak mogs on my team god hold up Turnt up my shit at like twenty three dawg hold up Four years, six tapes then came Free like hold up Came back with that plan, Sam and OG dawg hold up Ima get paid, ima make it on, ima change the game, ima put on for my niggas I ain't playin, im just saying what they told me. Ima tell it how they told me Ima make waves, ima run the road, ima switch lanes, ima stunt on all these niggas and these lames, I'm just saying what they told me. Ima tell it how they told me! How you gon grow sumn with no core, grind sumn with no board, build sumn with no bricks, How you gon see sumn with no shore, win sumn with no war, start sumn with no bench, How you gon stay afloat with no or, open sumn with no doors, stand out with no niche How you gon live right with no laws, live life with no cause, smarten up and grow rich

home is state of mind. if the hate there I don't wanna stay in mine. home is state of mind. if the hate there I don't wanna stay in mine. home is state of mind. if the hate there I don't wanna stay in mine. how the lake there, known for the rate of crime? how the taste there, known for the gang violence? they ain't play fair talmbout the red lining. that was they mayor, those sixty eight riots. see if they care that po kids stay dying. see if they care that yo kids stay dying. wasn't shit like summer at the crib tho. cold winter but it gave me sumn to live foe. it was piggy, it was cobbs, it was tips tho. it was southside y, it was lems tho. it was dan ryan woods, it was bud billi rolex face buck fiddy window shoppa on the mag everybody know the fireworks better on the third you ain't swerve til you flick the same fit at six flags I ain't step in saks fifth rack polo out the nordstrom rack while mom snap marshall field carson pirie. navigated down to navy pier, activated my ambitions as a mack at the mickie deez on erie. can't get them days back but that bulls still put us on the map, so I'm praying that they hear me I just want that mog d-rose back. Treat the city like iraq, we gon kill each other while they make a killing. Ain't got time for yo pity Ain't no room for yo weary Ain't nowhere you gon visit Ain't no town like my town when it's summertime in the city Summertime in my city And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me Sun gon shine on my city Summertime, sun gon shine on my city And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me And thats all that matters to me

I wake up, blaze. Walk thru a maze. Caught me a wave. Balance. Pouring up a chalice Everybody know I don't need stylist Ugh I got the stylus, the pen I come thru with the zen My mind on another cloud my money on the yen I be up early in the morning for the paper I be up early in the morning for the paper I be up early in the morning for the paper I be up early in the morning for the paper I be up early in the morning for the paper Stretch and let a yawn out when I wake up Water on the green from a dollar and a dream Step out on my lawn hello to my neighbors Early in the morning for the rent Blow it down money well spent Get me out the do, help me let it all go Free my mind hit the clouds then I vent Early in the morning for the lick Deep off in the dungeon where I went Charging for the code, but the bars for the low Running specials at the moment don't slip Early in the morning in the stuy Five on every corner I know why Gotta go to work and that shit drive me berserk So I know they knowing I be on that fiy OG told me never tell no lie, yet I'm at the table, listening to fables. Never sold kane. Always been abel. Grew up on that Aesop. Shit be changing asap. Niggas brought the fade back. Beckies bringing braids back? Hmn... how they gon explain that? I just keep it real, they don't really want that. I be up early in the morning for the