Long Way to Go

She tells me that she loves me, I don't tell her back

'Cause where I'm from, you can't be trusting girls

I really put my mom through hell and back

I swear I broke my mom's heart when I was selling crack

Before you learn to walk, you gotta learn to crawl

These little niggas are dumb, they should have stayed in school

Man, I'm stuck up in the trap, I'm tryna make it out

Life's kind of mad when you got niggas tryna take you out

But I ain't talkin' 'bout no dinner date

'Cause where I'm from you don't share, you get your dinner ate

Living how I'm living ain't safe

We just tryna get paid hittin' keys on the mains

Keys on my line got me up late

And I was OT, grindin' hard for eight months straight

I gotta go hard 'cause it's the only way

I was meetin' dons, smashin' phones, and I ain't gon' change

(Still waking these same old roads)

But some things the streets don't have to know (know-know)

You know I grind for my family ah

And came so far, but such a long way to go

Such a long way to go

Such a long way to go

I was never that kid in the background

My mommy used to ask me, "Son, why are you a class clown?"

I used to tell her, "Mom, that I'm gon' be a star"

Never had dreams, I had seen so soon in the far

I was trappin' when you niggas used to play out

All you used to sell cans in the playground

And then I hit crack and started hustlin' underground

Now it's kind of mad that I'm on a stage now

She asked me what I do, I told her, "Baby, I rap now"

She rolled her eyes at me and said, "Well, you don't trap now?"

I just smiled then at her face and I told her no

She said "Mom will stop playing and now you sound more grown"

(Still waking these same old roads)

But some things the streets don't have to know (know-know)

You know I grind for my family ah

And came so far, but such a long way to go

Such a long way to go

(Still waking these same old roads)

Such a long way to go