Harder Way

[Chorus]

Bitch it is what it is, I'm forever real it's hard to fake

On go, do it to em up close cause he ain't gone dodge the drake

I'll rob steal kill and destroy to make sure my daughter straight

Cause I grew the harder way

Bitch I grew the harder way



[Verse 1]

I just turnt 24 and made 3 daughters, doubled back and made my first son

Now he born, I want em to understand every man for himself

And ain't nobody gonna do for em

I love Leon [?]......Lil Tayda know I'll shoot for em

Hop out walk down c'mere, where you going

Road shows still wit me, cutters in the foreign

Last year I had feeled never received recognition, when I'm feeling like we the rawest n***as in it, gang

Them n***as ain't rappers they got a image, lame

A well painted picture that'll blemish in a eye

Of a n***a like I, lost Mon lost Dave lost Zoe, I cry

XD45 that's 15 times, 3 times for that wood 5 times for yo mind, bitch



[Bridge 1]

I grew the harder way

I remember dipping in and out traffic with Zoe getting off the H

This when we all was straight

I had to grab a plate

I can go back to Shake

I got some shit that I done in the pass that I can't go back and say



[Chorus]

Bitch it is what it is, I'm forever real it's hard to fake

On go, do it to em up close cause he ain't gone dodge the drake

I'll rob steal kill and destroy to make sure my daughter straight

Cause I grew the harder way

Bitch I grew the harder way



[Verse 2]

When I came home from jail, I wa'nt looking for help I was running that block with Lil Tayda

[?].....shooting dice on Shay and Lil Luwhop got out like a couple months later

I did a lil song with She Money, and some wack shit at that and she act like she done me a favor

I brought you to P ask Black and ask B, you would see G and turn to a hater

I had them p's, me and Dame I actually flew out and met you with paper

It wa'nt much, but I wa'nt broke cause I'll suit up and go pull off a caper

I know errbody ain't able and errbody ain't stable

I remember we ain't have cable, we would run extension cords from the neighbors, yeah

I grew the harder way

I just left out of the court room today

And they threw my charge away

Sometimes it be hard to pray

I ain't gone speak on the opps but I ain't gone sleep on the opps

They bet not ever get caught, or somebody else gone get shot

And I put that shit on this Glock, yeah



[Bridge 2]

I cut my first baby mama off, shawty ain't mean me no good

I walk on water for my oldest daughter cause nobody else gonna do it

Wake up and I'm getting to it (Yeah)

Still hanging in the hood (Yeah)

I ain't leave Baton Rouge (No)

Pull up on me we gone do it



[Verse 3]

Miss Scotty we was all blinded by material shit that didn't matter

Ride with that ladder like I know it's coming but I know my enemies pray it come faster

Like I can go forward, but I might go backwards

Cause I know my harder me still in the streets

My mama know part of me still in the streets

She just want me to rap and be great on the beat

But it's hard when you wake up and think about beef

N***as that's gone that I wish I could see

Steppin' in jail and he call every week

When he speak about freedom it cut me so deep

Bitch we grew the harder way

Most of my patnas incarcerated now I'm tryna find me a God to pay

They gone be all on the yard with grace

Walk the package through the gate



[Chorus]

Bitch it is what it is, I'm forever real it's hard to fake

On go, do it to em up close cause he ain't gone dodge the drake

I'll rob steal kill and destroy to make sure my daughter straight

Cause I grew the harder way

Bitch I grew the harder way