The Valley of the Shadow of Death

[00:02.17] Uh
[00:10.05] Give a fuck if your pockets low, we been living lowkey
[00:13.32] Wonder how we was poppin' bottles
[00:15.36] This far below the poverty line
[00:17.37] Won't no avocados but toast was on me, early
[00:20.28] Would break fast, was hopping gates
[00:21.87] Would do the same to Pearly
[00:23.28] Mistakes add up
[00:24.53] Some niggas could name the police
[00:26.30] Some niggas always need somebody else name on the lease
[00:29.35] Some of us struggling to find inner peace
[00:31.56] I'm still fightin' a beast
[00:33.02] I show love, I definitely want it requited at least
[00:35.46] The odds stacked against shorty and despite it she preach
[00:38.07] While I'm smoking my roach
[00:39.28] Nigga been tree huggin' tryna widen my reach
[00:41.74] More Vitamin-E, really tryna widen my scope
[00:44.62] They tryna tell me, my freedom abides in a vote
[00:47.63] That died on a boat, it's on that very water I choke
[00:50.60] Most times I get tried 'fore I speak, I die 'fore I spoke
[00:53.65] I cried when I seen but never ask why 'cause I know
[00:56.56] They give a fuck if you fly, we 'sposed to fly or sell dope
[00:59.78] We 'sposed to give em' the key so they can get in the door
[01:02.51] Still had to kick in the door just to get in the door when he was five
[01:06.38] And we gon' call that boy a thug for the rest of his life
[01:10.43] Damn
[01:11.17] Yeah, you know I walk through everything they taught me
[01:14.28] Still feeling groggy, heavy on the caffeine in my coffee
[01:17.64] No Geoffrey
[01:18.77] I ain't tip toein' that's too costly
[01:21.02] I ain't tip toein' that's too costly
[01:23.29] Folk don't get to see themselves too often
[01:26.25] Only look at mirrors through the smoke
[01:28.19] Everything go rogue
[01:31.50] Everything's glossy
[01:34.06] I fear no evil at all
[01:35.63] I pray my closest don't fold, I know somebody gon' fall
[01:38.57] Fuck saving face I can't keep changing pace to stay up wit' yall
[01:41.56] This ain't a race, see niggas running in place to chase waterfalls
[01:44.45] I can relate, I can't erase the times when I dropped the ball
[01:47.76] Was tryna handle it all, I'm no Kyrie in the least
[01:50.49] I had to learn it the harder way, niggas' Penny's be creased
[01:53.58] A couple niggas deceased, I watched some niggas retreat
[01:56.65] You ever had a peace treaty wit' niggas you still don't fuck wit'?
[01:59.70] I started turning my cheek
[02:01.20] I had to turn a new leaf on niggas, smoking Swisher Sweets
[02:03.96] Was on them Backwoods for some weeks
[02:05.61] Then I got straight to the paper
[02:06.92] My paper straight as a crease
[02:08.55] Got paper weights for receipts
[02:10.15] Got label mates we been scammed by the same man, we don't speak
[02:12.92] The neighbors hate we don't speak
[02:14.47] Don't come through preachin'
[02:15.36] Just come through practicing' whatever you was gon' preach
[02:17.34] And scratch my back if you reach
[02:18.77] Gotta match my joint if you smoking
[02:20.38] These niggas'll do you like leeches
[02:21.89] I'm seeing ghost like it's bleach
[02:24.97] I brought my sand to a fire hydrant, created a beach
[02:27.92] I put my sole in these beats
[02:35.05] Yeah, you know I walk through everything they taught me
[02:38.13] Still feeling groggy, heavy on the caffeine in my coffee
[02:41.84] No Geoffrey
[02:42.82] I ain't tip toein' that's too costly