[00:06.885]Came a long way to make it here
[00:09.344]Gotta thank God that I made it here
[00:12.069]Have a good time, the whole town show up
[00:14.650]Money coming fast, hope it never slow up
[00:17.515]I done came a long way to make it here
[00:20.245]Gotta thank God that I made it here
[00:22.998]Respected by every hood, nigga, throw up
[00:25.683]Stood solid, never let niggas ho us
[00:28.461]I done came a long way to make it here
[00:31.194]Gotta thank God that I made it here
[00:33.908]Show your credentials, who you akin to? (That's it)
[00:36.460]Boy, who you done beat up? What you done been through? (Uh-huh)
[00:39.214]Hit you on your records, you sounding very high (Uh-huh)
[00:41.944]But what you done did the nigga can verify (Uh)
[00:44.979]No corroboration, ain't no conversation
[00:47.664]Just a bunch of a cap mixed with a lot of hating
[00:50.294]Went from hand to hand at the serving station
[00:52.998]To making a hundred and fifty grand just off day training
[00:55.508]And man, we know you ain't did the shit you said there
[00:58.569]Where I come from, you end up a dead man
[01:00.673]Playing 'round, where a nigga die for staying down
[01:03.948]The neighborhood we can't build it faster than they tear it down
[01:06.284]Black man fire, and homie, I hear sirens
[01:08.941]White police firing, homie, and they silent
[01:11.668]Then they expect me not to be violent, it's a lose-lose
[01:14.982]Tryna unlearn what I been taught since elementary school, damn
[01:18.233]Have a good time, the whole town show up
[01:20.834]Money coming fast, hope it never slow up
[01:23.500]I done came a long way to make it here
[01:26.021]Gotta thank God that I made it here
[01:29.200]Respected by every hood, nigga, throw up
[01:31.611]Stood solid, never let niggas ho us
[01:34.599]I done came a long way to make it here
[01:37.397]Gotta thank God that I made it here
[01:39.961]Body took a minute but we got it in (21)
[01:42.915]Lost a couple M's, lost a couple friends (On God)
[01:45.427]Gotta take some losses if you wanna win
[01:47.531]Disrespect, it's damn near mandatory that we gotta spin (Brrt)
[01:51.102]Tryna hibernate, we give his nest the kin (21)
[01:53.550]Encore, **** it, hit they block again (On God)
[01:56.763]I embrace the struggle 'cause I understand
[01:58.638]Fell in love with hard times, they turned me to a ****ing man (21)
[02:01.873]Living by the code, I don't talk to police (Never)
[02:04.691]Stand up when I'm pissing, can't no nigga ho me (Pussy)
[02:07.385]Rapping like I'm preaching, all my bars holy
[02:10.180]You flexing for the 'Gram, that is not your Rollie (21)
[02:12.954]Pockets overweight and all my opps bony (Facts)
[02:15.687]Sucker shit or hater shit, I'm not condoning (Never)
[02:18.485]See it in your eyes, all your love phony (21)
[02:21.235]Stabbed me in my back and then he tried to bro me (21)
[02:24.375]Have a good time, the whole town show up
[02:27.060]Money coming fast, hope it never slow up
[02:29.794]I done came a long way to make it here
[02:32.373]Gotta thank God that I made it here
[02:35.305]Respected by every hood, nigga, throw up
[02:38.010]Stood solid, never let niggas ho us
[02:40.872]I done came a long way to make it here
[02:43.492]Gotta thank God that I made it here
[02:46.008]Research information [?] (I am)
[02:48.860]I'm bending knees searching for my life's purpose (Amen)
[02:51.629]Think you can pray your way up out of misfortune? (No)
[02:54.164]You're mistaken and most churches is exortion
[02:56.849]What the Bible say 'bout faith without work? Huh (Damn)
[02:59.337]You can still do everything right and get murked, huh
[03:02.241]Think to support education they ain't learn (Uh-huh)
[03:04.695]Still hate, got 'em killing and they turnt (Go)
[03:07.592]Seen so many futures and families set on the mantle (Like who?)
[03:10.252]Like Bankroll Fresh and the king [?] Doe B[?]
[03:15.782]Dead soul summer, camouflage back in the day
[03:18.495]Then there was Dolla, Lil Snupe, triple X, and Mac Dre
[03:21.888]Man, every day a blessing, learned that shit from hustle
[03:24.665]Don't take that shit for granted, do yourself some damage
[03:26.872]In a mansion with expensive granite tryna understand it
[03:30.585]Have a good time, the whole town show up
[03:33.269]Money coming fast, hope it never slow up
[03:36.047]I done came a long way to make it here
[03:38.687]Gotta thank God that I made it here
[03:41.466]Respected by every hood, nigga, throw up
[03:44.220]Stood solid, never let niggas ho us
[03:46.932]I done came a long way to make it here
[03:49.532]Gotta thank God that I made it here
[03:53.967]I did the prayer 'fore Sierra ever did that prayer
[03:57.134]I said, "Lord, send me a nigga that don't hit me in the eye on Friday, and got a job, and can read"
[04:02.043]And I got one
[04:03.500]I met my husband
[04:04.691]And he wasn't gon' let me, he wasn't gon' let me ****in' sell dope
[04:08.419]And at the time I was a check forger for the rest of the league got on the check forgin' game
[04:12.137]And he was just a Christian nigga, he wanted everything to go right
[04:15.079]****ed around and, I fell in love with him and got a job at McDonald's, [?] Road for four dollars and twenty-seven cents an hour
[04:21.146]I'm like, "Who the **** do this shit?"
[04:23.293]This is whacker than a mother****er
[04:24.586]"Is this what Jesus told you niggas to do, to work for four dollars and twenty-five cents an hour and y'all ain't stealin' shit?"
[04:30.098]So you know me, I started stealin' from McDonald's, nigga
[04:32.699]As I ring you up, I rung you out
[04:35.319]**** y'all laughing at?