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I'm a livin' little good thing

It's like you never lived for me

Mama said you was a good thing

Yeah

We came a long way, man

We done came a long way

And we sittin' on top of this shit

This shit can go one or two ways

This shit can go up, it can go down

Either way, nigga, I'm prepared

You feel me? Yeah

I be comin' in peace, but fuck me, best beware

The others is shit deep, under covers creep

This southern heat make unbearable summers

Just last week, seen your mama weep

Crying 'cause she don't wanna bury your brother

The blood leaks while thе EMT's

Gotta carry her baby like surrogate mothеrs

Woah, thank God we survived the round with the terrorist

Though we been traumatized

Wouldn't trade it for nothin' through hard times

It was there I discovered a hustle

And makin' the best out the struggle, I kept grindin'

Until this day up a level, respect mine

Gotta stay out of trouble 'cause Tech. 9's like the AR rebuttals

Cole World, niggas knowin' what it is

Just in case they don't, I show 'em what it is

Then in Summer, I do real numbers

Couldn't dare touch it if they sold the double disc

Block hot, niggas burnin' up the street

Shots poppin' and we heard it up the street

It's a war, niggas runnin' up the score

Jesus said that you should turn the other cheek

Voiceless niggas gettin' murdered every week

Dead bodies, smell the odor in the street

My homie, homie got out on parole

He sold more Coca-Cola than the soda in the street

Summertime, bring the cold, this winter breeze

Hella blues like the rolling sixties

Christ went to heaven, age thirty-three

And so did Pimp C, and so did Nipsey

I told you, I told you

This shit can go up, it can go down, I don't give a fuck

Nigga, I done seen the highest heights

I done seen it twice

And I've seen them lowest of the lows

And still I rose

Now I'm at your neck, nigga, yeah