[Intro]

I hope my story continue beyond what I tell to my kids, yeah
Ain’t a whole lot I would change, regardless we did what we did, yeah
It feel like the sun on my back sometimes, the way they be eyein me
Got out of the hood, got up to no good, they don’t see the irony

[Chorus]

It was a different danger
When n***as fall victim to strangers
From feelin the clip when it hit from somebody behind that you used to hang wit
Now I got different angles
I’m tryna pull jets off of hangars
My hangers got racks hangin down now
Still gon be tempted to stain ya, these days I’m
Way way way way past Mr. Nice Guy
It’s a drill in the night time, out the windowsill wit the pipeline, shorty wit me got a nice tan, and she say I really got nice eyes, I just know I got nice ice, I’m never sittin on the sidelines, I’m, uh

[Verse 1]

Really tryna get up out a bad way, that’s
All up out the gully where my dad stayed at
We was middle class by the trap and the feds came through where the bag stay at
Before they knew me n***as used to call me Stuart Little and say that I talked white
Now they listen to me and they lookin for me but I’m the one that they talk like
I’m just talkin bout my real life
N***as caught me at the red light
Hoppin off the bus into traffic
I was not the one they read rights
But I was 12 when these n***as shells left a metal trail in some tail lights, while I was runnin to safety, mind racing, they ain’t hate me, but

{Chorus]

It was a different danger
When n***as fall victim to strangers
Than feelin the clip when it hit from somebody behind that you used to hang wit
Now I got different angles
I’m tryna pull jets off of hangars
My hangers got racks hangin down now
Still gon be tempted to stain ya, these days I’m
Way way way way past Mr. Nice Guy
It’s a drill in the night time, out the windowsill wit the pipeline, shorty wit me got a nice tan, and she say I really got nice eyes, I just know I got nice ice, I’m never sittin on the sidelines, I’m, uh

[Verse 2]

Hesitant to call these n***as friends
I can’t owe em what I never had
Get in motion and it never end
No devotion till it bring em something
Everybody say they know the man
Everybody say they need advice
Everybody got an open hand
I got n***as that would die for me in the city dyin and for no reason
Then I’m livin where they say they wanna visit actin like it was so decent
All motion till the gates open, I be all over like it’s no sleepin, like my eyes open to the real world while these backstabbers and them folks eatin
I ain’t changed up but my lanes did, I’m afraid I’m creating distance
Daddy always see the city scanner, I’d be overwhelmed if I paid attention
I done seen and heard many things that was so foul I’m afraid to mention but adrenaline and paranoia different, you don’t see the difference, lemme kick it, see

[Chorus]

It was a different danger
When n***as fall victim to strangers
Than feelin the clip when it hit from somebody behind that you used to hang wit
Now I got different angles
I’m tryna pull jets off of hangars
My hangers got racks hangin down now
Still gon be tempted to stain ya, these days I’m
Way way way way past Mr. Nice Guy
It’s a drill in the night time, out the windowsill wit the pipeline, shorty wit me got a nice tan, and she say I really got nice eyes, I just know I got nice ice, I’m never sittin on the sidelines, but I’m lost still