Up Now

[Chorus] I couldn’t stay at the bottom I made the plays to get through I stayed away from the drama I stayed up late when they snoozed I use pray ‘way my problems I was afraid I would lose Then I put problems aside and I made a way for the moves I used to feel like shit was a dub but nigga I’m up now I used to feel I wouldn’t be something but now they wanna fuck with me I used to feel like shit was a dub but nigga I’m up now Told my niggas, for real they touching a mil’ long as they stuck with me [Post-Chorus] I can’t go back To what I was [Verse] Bench warmer player, I work harder now 40 minute games, I’m a starter now Blue Ivy’s in my wallet, I’m a Carter now Cartograph the route, see the proof in the roof Hardly leave the stu’ I don’t do the relaxing Niggas “off the wall” like a booth full Jackson Fuck Tom Hanks ‘cause I’m truthfully captain Fuck my bank, I done moved up the bracket Sun roof down so the rays hit the melanin Spun through town trying to bathe in the element Jump through round, getting raised like a pelican Zion Will, pray my eyes don’t fill Pray my fam’ stay alive and my shawty don’t stress Pray my guys don’t die, never take last breaths We been down so long, we deserve to see a check ‘Cause we up now [Bridge] We been down so long, we deserve to see a check ‘cause we up now We been down so long, we deserve to see a check ‘cause we up now We been down so long, we deserve to see a check ‘cause we up now [Chorus] Ay, I couldn’t stay at the bottom I made the plays to get through I stayed away from the drama I stayed up late when they snoozed I use pray ‘way my problems I was afraid I would lose Then I put problems aside and I made a way for the moves I used to feel like shit was a dub but nigga I’m up now I used to feel I wouldn’t be something but now they wanna fuck with me I used to feel like shit was a dub but nigga I’m up now Told my niggas, for real they touching a mil’ long as they stuck with me [Post-Chorus] I can’t go back To what I was