[Verse 1: Rewind] You gon' make it little n***a you gon' make it boy I promise Cause everytime you on these beats you always speak so honestly All about my team I still do it for my n***as though Allergic to the nervous just took doses of the benedryll Family seen me on the screen I call that a pick and roll Don't hold my breath for no one even when I got the hiccups bro They don't know, no, they don't know, about being broke Being pitiful, trying to put this pa**ion in this pad here But the f**ing pen is broke, swallowing this hen and coke Gin and hope thinking one different quote Could have changed my life but damnit I ain't say it right So it's back to the crib, sitting here on writer's block Thinking I should tie the knot on my career Cuz no one knows me over there, and I'll be Kobe in a year Not finna blow, not talking rings, just 24 What the f** Is Luck when all you got is rhymes Give a damn bought failure all I know is grind [Rewind](Youngin) [Hook x2] This just a story of a youngin(youngin) Tryna make something(something) Something out of nothing(nothing) (We tried and we tried, we tried and we tried We will not be denied) [Rewind] (You see that) Now I'm on the next step not the same stoop with you I don't try angles never been a cute n***a My whole team riding never been a coupe n***a You couldn't get a pa** if a n***a hooped with you Wiz be the, heroic, thoroughness, real sh** I'm preferring it If you ain't about it, then I doubt that , we'd be cool much further Than this, earth surface purpose is to get this paper urgently I filet and surgery any beat the Academy'll choose to serve to me Adding verses of adversity personally I come to think That don't nobody f** with me ‘cause can't nobody f** with me Luckily I'm one opinion, with a dependent, Island on my sholders sitting Like I'm swimming, this here should be a given, that I'ma rep my city like a pendant This a f** you to f** n***as thinking different [Hook x2] [Rewind] (It's Clear that) Flow bananas since the playground I had monkey bars The games a bunch of squares dancing, looking like a country bar They scared to go against the odds, I'm older now with open eyes Telling these new youngins is more to life than just clothes and broads But who am I to be a mentor or father figure when I got on the new jordans And different chicks is up on me, if I ain't embellishing what I'm telling you Then I'm part of the problem, but still I fell like part of my job is To educate them for I hate them, ‘cause I'ma hate me if I don't try to change them So that takes me, and place me, in an awkward place then, see this life thing don't play fair But I got a couple aces up my sleeves like bracelets on an ulna or a radius It take the courageous to get it straight braces , I'm Langston with language On stages abrasive we came from that ain't sh** to make shift to made it Damn, I think we made it [Hook x2] (Little n***a told me..) [Youngin] fu*k THAT I ask them n***as what's up ‘cause this hustle don't budge until dusk and the sun come back up So what's up cause they talk but that talk that they talk They is not ‘bout at all, so what's up Cause we drunk, we'd been puffin So scuffling is nothing to us, you but shut it up Cause when it comes down to it, you don't really wanna do it Not the group to run in to, with ones & twos, leaving you with couple bruises Custody, handcuffing shooters, converting, your n***as trading Et tu Brutus, ruthless, like convertibles, on purpose tho [Rewind] I swear I got a purpose yo My imperfections made a perfect flow Sure as codeine make that purple slow I'm the point that make my circle grow