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