that's how i grew up

money callin' me

trouble followin' me

i'm a street nigga and i'm a always be

and my momma know i'm good so she don't pray for me

i'm just a street nigga and i'm a always be

we was gangbangin'

that's how i grew up

out there sellin' work

that's how i grew up

youngin' shootin' shit up

that's how i grew up

i put in that work

that's how i blew up

man fuck them niggas

they ain't nothin' like us

we don't talk to cops

that's how i grew up

we just sit out box

that's how i grew up

all day on the block

that's how i grew up

on the eastside of chiraq

that's where i grew up

og ain't let me on essex until i grew up

when g fazo died in 2010 i just ain't give a fuck

'member me and manski on the phone an hour teein' up

fourteen we was young as fuck all ready to fuck shit up

comin' up no fear in us we ready to kill sum

lil roc died broski turned himself in for a year or sum

trappin' so hard told em leave the line and watch us still run it

back then i was sixteen probably running up a fifteen

then i started spittin' 16s

rappin' 16s

by my 16th

nigga 16 yeah them my blocks

four blocks can't switch

four blocks that way

four blocks up four blocks back

we run our shit and the opps

we was gangbangin'

that's how i grew up

out there sellin' work

that's how i grew up

youngin' shootin' shit up

that's how i grew up

i put in that work

that's how i blew up

man fuck them niggas

they ain't nothin' like us

we don't talk to cops

that's how i grew up

we just sit out box

that's how i grew up

all day on the block

that's how i grew up

you can't come where i grew up

big ass guns where i grew up

they shoot for fun where i grew up

no where to run you fall you fucked

wonder why your niggas never pull up

never call you up

ain't know who you calling for

no body want war with us

literally

bullshit you not

fo'nem go nuts with them glocks

they don't even know how to stop

knock that little shit off the top

grew up fathers off the dope

grew up mothers off the rocks

errybody got a problem

errybody got a opp

and i grew up just a screw up

takin' drugs

totin' guns missin' court goin' on the run

gangbangin' ridin' on opps just for fun

pop in front of 'em masked up

can't see my face just the gun

we was gangbangin'

that's how i grew up

out there sellin' work

that's how i grew up

youngin' shootin' shit up

that's how i grew up

i put in that work

that's how i blew up

man fuck them niggas

they ain't nothin' like us

we don't talk to cops

that's how i grew up

we just sit out box

that's how i grew up

all day on the block

that's how i grew up