Uh, uh, uh

Turn my headphones up

Lil bit louder

Aight, bet

Okay, now ever since a kid I've been ready to get it

Need all of mine, dollar sign fiend, I do admit

When I was younger used to hustle

this homework just for a twenty

So every one of these pennies I'm pinching

I need it swiftly

Never had a handout, this the hand I was given

But they gotta hand it to me, I been handling bidness

Animalistic, mindset from the trenches

That's just how it is when you immigrant livin'

In the city, hoodie up, I'm feeling giddy

Anxiety hit cuz anyone could be a lick

My eyes flick back and forth, my vision pendulum swinging

Defenses up, I wonder what them kids and them thinking

"Hip-hop this" and "Hip-hop that"

Oldheads always ask where the real raw at

Kinda funny when they see the new gen start step

It be the same bullshit, "This that TikTok rap

It's just all-talk cap, just a facade act"

Even though some of they favorites wore a full-on mask

Ain't even from the same city block they jacking

Yet they still wanna say they care where hip-hop's at

Got me sick of all your dialogues, hypocrites, write it off

Lies and all dirty in my ear, I need some lie-sysol

Sick of all you giving your opinion, need some Tylenol

Instagram caption reading, "Real shit is dying off"

Corny bitch, shut your orifice up, sob story fit

Want an audience, fuck your trauma, you just bored as shit

Stay performative, you on your moral high horse and then

Switch your stories quick

it's the same back and forth again, bitch

Forever slick, I couldn't let 'em win

Even if they try and chin-check me or if that's an inch

I ain't beg for shit

I did this all with blood, sweat, and tears

I ain't had to sell a single piece of my reflection

It's fire in my eyes, that's my default mood

When you from where I'm from, you gotta watch how you move

And they ask why I'm quiet, cuz my head on a swivel

I know that anyone's a victim, you can't pick or choose

I seen friend circles get ended by square bitches

Brotherhoods end through jealousy and tensions

Seen shorties hold it down for ain't-shit dick

So my empathy been tainted by the shit I been witnessed

motherfucker