Tell it like it is on the North Coast
Let em know
Like It Is on the North Coast
It's how it goes
North Coast
Real hard
Tell it like it is on the North Coast
Alaska Redd
Yeah
It's been a long time coming
Grinding all my life
It's a marathon we running
Rest in peace Nip
And all the ones we lost in loving
Way too often looking at coffins
You can tell it aint troubling
These Irish eyes have cried
When I watched the death rates doubling
People fed me lies
And the chaos found coveting
True adversity builds character
Theres something about struggling
Turn a boy into a man
When he start hustling
Sometimes its raw dog
The hand that life deal us
But like they say it only make you stronger
What don't kill us
I grew around some hard heads D Boys and Dealers
Regular Joes Working 9 to 5 Straight up killers
This aint no fairytale shit
Give em the raw facts
A cut with Alaska Redd and Twelvegage is on the track
Hey D the lyricist My brother I love ya Got ya back
Always tell it like it is
And thats a fact
Nothing happened by accident This was definitely on purpose
Manifest destiny My adversity kept me working
Versatility while I pen verses That became timeless
Around the clock Patiently pacing Until my time hits
Lets just be honest I am as God Had intended me to be
At 10 and 2 my foot To the pedal As I increase in speed
I want whats mine I mean immediately
And I dont concern myself With things
That dont Have meaning to me
Dont do media beef
I stay off the posts And the tweets
Cause this aint you Thats just the person
That you're posing to be
Quote the code of the streets
But lack the integrity And the honor
Just some little boys
Trying to be men Who grew without fathers
Dont bother with politics
Getting straight to the business
A workaholic
And Im not looking To cure my addiction
If I aint got it
Then believe me Ima go out and get it
Young black and gifted
And I aint sell my soul For a ticket Now listen
North Coast
Tell it like it is
On the North Coast
Yo
North Coast
Yo
Tell it like it is
On the North Coast
Twelvegage
Raised where Inupiat call home
And dynamite Spears are thrown
Where the clickety Clack can boom
Cardboard is the floor Rug and dinner plates
Easily refaced When blood and grease
Get all over the place
Butchering game In the living space
Kids playing with the waste
Learning how to live In this cold ass landscape
Hood adjacent White Dreams of living nice
Cassettes I overwrite Recording my first shite
Until I can make it tight
With the drum fills
And write verses Stone colder than my bum feels
Alcohol and drug deals
All around me then and still
Lost friends to injustice And losing the will
So I keep my grind on Mind strong
Wanna keep them lines long
Listening to my songs
Tell it like where Im from
And where Im going Cause up is the goal
And be a rising tide
Raising all boats In the cove Let's get it
North Coast
Tell it like it is On the North Coast
Like it is On the North Coast
Tell it Like it is On the North Coast
Like it is On the North Coast
Tell it Like it is
On the North Coast
Like it is On the North Coast
Tell it Like it is
On the North Coast