Transformation

[Intro]

Cause I know how niggas is

When you in the streets and you hustlin'

You know how niggas is

Cause you was one of them niggas, you know what I'm sayin'

You were on the corner tryin' to get your money

You see a nigga roll around in a Benz or a Bimmer, know what I'm sayin'

Fuck that nigga, know what I'm sayin'

I murder that nigga, I ride that nigga, you know what I'm sayin'

Now I'm the nigga in the hood, know what I'm sayin'

Now you guys own the corner, so I know the same speeches comin' up

You know what I'm sayin', it's all good though

I ain't trippin'

I'm that nigga

[Verse 1]

I’m old enough to know better, young enough to not give a fuck

Rather hold my head high and die than live and duck

Remember I was down to die just to live it up

But life’s a bitch and that judge is quick to give her up

They say life is short, 'cept when lookin' through them bars

Gotta keep your head up, I be lookin' to the stars

I been through a lot, wasn’t lookin' for no cars

Didn't kill me though, now I’m here lookin' at the scars

Sometimes you get caught by people lookin' from a far

That’s how it is when you out here takin' cookies from the jar

That’s what my son said, they came and took him and his draws

He support the family, they took his mama favorite bra

The feds snatched my favorite boy

These the rainy days they say you should be savin' for

But when sun shines no one carries umbrellas

And if they did, we would look at them as dumb fellas

I’m trying to become something, they probably become jealous

Have a lot to say about it, but afraid to come tell us

I’m here to beat the odds that was set against me

Wished the worst luck to anyone who bet against me

I wanna be somebody, somebody that’s never been

No squares in my circle, best shape I ever been

I’m growing up, my daddy planted a seed

My momma watered me with a plan to succeed

I was that kid in the ghetto, hand full of seeds

But I’m here now and I don’t plan to recede

Sometimes I think I lucked up at right time

Imagine I would’ve fucked up that night, slime

It hurts to even think about it

Would be in the streets, thirsty, trying to get a drink up out it

Black hoodie, I pull that quatro cinco out

And put that iron to your clothes like I’m taking wrinkles out it

Take every Franklin, Grant, Jackson, and Lincoln out it

Look you in yo eyes and tell you, "Don’t you even think about it"

So as you hear me dropping this rhyme

Know my opportunity could've been stopped at a dime

The life you choose come from lack of options sometimes

Gotta do what you gotta do, even opting to crime

And who am I? Without name-dropping it, I'm

Someone who saw the top and didn't stop, he just climbed

Someone who get money without dropping a dime

And transform to your leader in my optimus prime

So, for dinner, we stopping at Prime

Round of chill Patron, top of the lime

Hold ‘em up, look at your niggas and say

There was no way out, but we figured a way

And now we chill, loaded up a steel

We just wish a nigga would, but we know a nigga will

But for real, good is how you feel

But soon as a nigga good is as soon as a nigga will

And we don’t owe these niggas nothing

Put that in a nigga will, yeah