Streets Raised Me

But I'll be damned if I don't ride for my co-D

And then this OG, scold me, and told me, coldly

You keep it up and you be dead like your homie

But I, gotta redeem and get this cream by any means

I never been clean

Nigga, my whole click got dirty

From the vials, to the trials and the bloodied up syrtie

Nigga you heard me, it's gangsta (and to the block)

Why'd you have to raise me this way?

You taught me how to survive the concrete

For how long only time will say

Forever you a part of me (and to the block)

Why'd you have to raise me this way?

I'm surprised we alive today, today

For how long, who am I to say?

Forever you a part of me

Vision the canvas I paint a picture

Similar to Ernies Barnes, nigga

But mines is more ghetto more guns

More drugs, mostly thugs

All of my dunns, their baby moms daughter and sons

Dark blocks, with streets lamps shot the fuck out

Park benches is broke, a nigga stretched out

Jumped off the roof and fell to his death, it's real

Hand Ball walls displayed with R-I-P murals

Those who sling, play the shadows by the building

Devil's Spring, keep 'em going while the snows blowing

Grams get dipped, 50's is moked, cookies is broke

And Spliced in large pieces for the fiends to smoke

The sun set looks beautiful over the projects

What a shame, it ain't the same where we stand at

If you look close you can see the bricks chipped off

Sometimes niggas miss when they lick off, don't get clipped off

(Street life)

Why'd you have to raise me this way?

You taught me how to survive the concrete

For how long only time will say

Forever you a part of me (street life)

Why'd you have to raise me this way?

I'm surprised we alive today, today

For how long, who am I to say?

Forever you a part of me (and to my dunns)

Why'd you have to raise me this way?

I love y'all to this day

For how long only time will say

Forever you a part of me (it's real)