[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