Don't Look Back Lyrics

[Verse]

Way before I had the underground moving

Way before I started boolin'

We was writing in the class going stupid

Way before I knew Curtis

Way before I saw curtains

Wasn't even tryna get the shit perfect

Only thing that mattered was the songs when it surfaced

Protools or not didn't matter we was working

Super skinny denim

That was way before the jerking

All I thought about was ballin'

I ain't talking bout how Irving get it

Nigga we was spitting

Ever since I was a seed

All I knew that I was gifted

Had my mind on a pedestal cause I was never lifted

Focused on the lyrics way before the culture shifted

All I wanted was somebody to listen

But I don't like complaining

I ain't really into bitching

But times got rough

I mean

Times started switching

Only reason we was eating and had food in the kitchen

(is) cause the EBT showed me named brands & we was trippin'

Moving like the postal cause we really got evicted

I remember like it's nothing

We was moving on a Christmas

Moving out of town they looking at me like I'm different

Pops ain't called a nigga since he was a midget

Crazy how the closest people to you

Can be so fucking distant

And that's probably why I started banging hard

Fingers twisted in the air

Grew some dreads in my hair

Just to show you that I don't give a fuck when you approach me

And don't call me Andre

Nigga that's the old me

To keep the shit a buck

I don't even really know me

Couldn't recognize myself if you forced me & showed me

Thinking bout

Going out hard like I'm Kobe

But they treat me like I'm just another player like Ginobli

20 on my back as it approach me

Still a teenager

But I'm feeling like a vet

So when you talk about the kid

On my name show (put) respect

Niggas know I'd take one for the game

No vest

And thats till the fucking day that I finally get to rest

19 years

If I die I never slept

And I left behind a masterpiece

Nigga I'm the best

Fear none but God

Got it tatted on my chest

And you know I'm bout the funk

And I never had to flex

That's a blood reference

Studying the game, I mean really rap lessons

Niggas got better & it's still no progression

Who run the city, my nigga, not a question

Only letting you lil niggas breathe

My blessings

But I can drop some shit today & stop the whole section

I'm the only nigga left

With a muthafucking message

And don't say you slept on a nigga

You was slept in

Labels picked up some niggas

Nigga I was left in

Whole fucking cause of this stupid ass depression

Is the rap fucking game

Got a nigga fucking stressing

Who you know putting niggas on like it's nothing?

Who you know got yo favorite lil niggas buzzing?

Who you know really put work in blooding?

And who you know can still can get down with the cousins?

Mama don't like my music now cause I'm cussin' but

This to heal the pain

I ain't talking robitussin

I done seen it all

Idol niggas really turn pussy

If I ever told a lie

Tell them folks to come book me

They don't care about lyrics

Promoters never book me

Tell XXL it's too late to be a rookie

Tell these damn labels that it's too late to overlook me

Cause after this shit

They planning to overbook me

12 mixtapes

They was sleeping my nigga

After this I'm hitting licks if I ain't eating my nigga

Running up

Ice Cube'ing to your meeting my nigga

With a 30 fucking clip and it's skeeting my nigga

Last year I almost died and I'm still screaming fuck that

Niggas getting hungry and they want to know where the buck at

Hard my nigga?

Boy you everything but that

Staying in the studio

You nothing but a tough act

Bitch I'm from Atlanta

I can show you where some tough at

Nigga fuck your BB Gun

I'll show you where to bust at

I'ma come clean

You can do everything but rap

This my shit nigga

Die quick nigga

And if I don't get a grammy off this shit then they racist

Niggas really rapping

But they only know who Drake is

No disrespect

But I put it on my set

If I sign to OVO the whole world gon' fucking play this

I ain't tryna get a check

I'm just trying to be the greatest

All praise to Jehovah

I don't really know who Jay is

I ain't being disrespectful

But

I ain't really playing

But i'll die before you call yourself the greatest

Fuck you saying nigga



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