already down

yeah, my town raised me, i'm still here wavy, never got rich so the money can't make me, my boys were my boys a decade ago, so i could never put a front on like y'all, they know me, is my mic on?, fuck your lack of motivation, you ain't never had to rap to keep the lights on, shit real to me, all your popcorn rap don't appeal to me, i got loyalty in my squadron, i got royalties on the way, r.i.p. mac, i'm white-boy awesome, give a goddamn what a critic gotta say, don't gotta play the game, came up in a small town, why the hell would i politic now?, doin' all my people dirty and we got beef, was a problem with me then? it's a problem with me now, i don't ever gotta think about whether it would be better, to piece it up because i know i got what they want, and they got a reason to front, never needed them but they needed us, i know it's a pleasure to be meeting us, they want it off the record when they beg, for me to be on the record but they never put up any bread, catch a body on anybody's head, when it comes to 16s, i don't need nobody, this shit is dead, rip, fuck y'all if you change up, y'all got rap friends, y'all got famous, i got back end, i got day-ones, i'm still good in the city i came from, who got your back when the chips low?, who shotgun when the whip slow?, who been with you from get-go?, when shit pop off, my boys already down