Don’t Look Back

[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
Nigga get it 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
'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 and 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 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 and 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 and 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

[Outro]
(Cough)
(Yeah, yeah)
I'm the--
I'm the
Best