Things I Seen

I grew up on welfare and food stamps
Only had like four shirts and two pants
In the projects with mom Dukes and my aunts
Cockroaches mice rats and some ants
I'm from Titletown the city of champs
Take your Ls in the dark or celebrate your wins
It ain't no time for no fake friends
Praise God for the situation you in
Cause it's always somebody out there who got it worse
Just buried a child praying up in the church
I done told y'all my life in every verse
Made it outta the bean though my city was cursed
Black cloud hovering over the projects
I grew up with dope fiends cuttys and crackheads
In my building
You can learn a lot of shit
Building with the unsuccessful
Plenty jewels to bless you
We slap box wrestle
52 blocks
Play coco-levio
Hit crackheads with rocks
My cousin Gutter stabbed my other cousin with a kitchen knife
We was only twelve
He was crazy as hell
Fell in love with my scale
In school show and tell
I brought liquor drugs to class to excel
Then I got expelled then I got arrested
Always throwing hands cause I used to get tested
Then I found hip hop my love I professed it
My success is truly what I manifested
Showed love to the game honor and respect it
And uphold the codes we need to protect it
I done had a Lexus a Jeep and a Benz
But that don't mean shit cause you can't take it to heaven
When I was eleven my pops beat me so bad
I couldn't go to school for a week this shit is deep
The trauma we get from dealing with a baby mama
Will have you fucked up sittin front of your honor
Praying to the Lord cause everybody is tough
That is until it's time for you to get sent up
I done had my house get raided by the pigs
I done seen money stacks I done seen bricks
I done had Bullets flying through where I live
Now imagine all the shit I can't say that I did
I just wanna Live
I walked roads painted in shadows
Seen the weight of every tear I wept
In the mirror, the stories I follow
Shake, peep the soul, every secret kept
I walked roads painted in shadows
Seen the weight of every tear I wept
In, the mirror, the stories I follow
Shake, peep the soul, every secret kept