[Intro]
(Young Shaney Jay he the plug boy)

[Chorus]
Gotta protect myself
When dealin' with n***as I cannot expect myself
Gotta protect myself
(It's) Y?gen to the end but I still gotta rep myself
Gotta protect myself
When dealin' with n***as I cannot expect myself
Gotta protect myself
(It's) Y?gen to the end but I still gotta rep myself (Huh)

[Verse 1]
My heart need a bandade
No trust in a hand shake
Cut grass 'cause you can't see all the snakes that's on a rampage
No bulb in a land shade
No plug, nah, I didn't have Shane
Bitcoins, see the rand gains
I hatе moeny 'cause it's man-made
Brokе all of my braasa up, just for lovering pesos
Elon Musk came to fuck it up but salute to him him and Jeff Bezos (Aweh)
Keep the world 'cause it's not enough, I want it all like I'm Thanos (Yah)
Love kills so I killed it back and I left behind a few Jane Does (Damn)
Are you keeping it broke and real or would you rather be fake and rich?
Feel like somebody put a hex on me, [?] energy a salem witch like damn (Yeses)
All I can feel is the pain now (Huh)
Put a needle in the vein now (Huh)
Hoping that the feeling drains out (What?)
It is not a fuckin' game now
Clearly our parents didn't raise us with the same style
I got the blade out 'cause I-
[Chorus]
Gotta protect myself
When dealin' with n***as I cannot expect myself
Gotta protect myself
(It's) Y?gen to the end but I still gotta rep myself
Gotta protect myself
When dealin' with n***as I cannot expect myself
Gotta protect myself
(It's) Y?gen to the end but I still gotta rep myself (Huh)

[Verse 2]
Flip mode on the freeway then I flip side when I bust rhymes (Bah)
The same thing you did with a label, I did it too just unsigned (Yah)
They couldn't stop me from coming up, awakened early like sunrise (Yeah)
Don't know how you do your business but by the book how I does mine (Woo)
Now you wanna be a ladies man, big stud in your rugby boots
But no one wanna be different now, it's just 'monkey see and then money do"
I miss calling my ex-ex 'cause I'm afraid of those DMs
Side chicks takes screenshots of our convos and they leak them
We were joined by the hip hop, and now I feel I don't need friends
I can't expect to be cared about in the same way that I treat them, damn
But I gotta give 'em the jewel
And takin' my children to school
And do not do unto another what you don't want someone to do unto you
Do not take me for a fool
I put the lense on all of my friends and then I developed the spool
Ready to duel, losin' my cool
[Chorus]
Gotta protect myself
When dealin' with n***as I cannot expect myself
Gotta protect myself
(It's) Y?gen to the end but I still gotta rep myself
Gotta protect myself
When dealin' with n***as I cannot expect myself
Gotta protect myself
(It's) Y?gen to the end but I still gotta rep myself (Huh)