Damn (Introduction) Lyrics

Yeah, yeah

Start this shit off

You see

Ha, this is

Far from the first time I been thinking 'bout that first line

Could probably date it back to '09

When number twenty-four brought that title to the city for the fourth time

My dad reminscin' 'bout the old times, growing up during Showtime

He always said that

"Life goes in cycles"

I can't deny I heard him most times

Herer got me thinkin' back to those times

While I got the smoke sneakin' all up through the closed blinds

And I been talking out my ass so much that she won't pay me no mind

Funny thing is, if I'm talking out my ass right now

I been talking all this shit for the whole time

And that's a joke but it's no lie

Forreal

Forreal

Yeah

Look

Imagine finally tryna swing and life throw you a curve

Imagine growing into wings and then you fall for a bird

Imagine paying off your rent 'cause you playing with words

When you was skipping every meal every week of the first

Damn

But all we ever knew was the work, see

And daddy always told me that I don't got it worst

Cause, it's a thin line between blessing and curse

But if you can't tell 'em part you better check with the church, on God

I was all about my Chicken at first

Until I wondered why that bread ain't quenching my thirst

Like we was at the Popeye's between Howard and Birch

A lot of niggas plant seeds and don't water the dirt

God gotta talk to em first

You can't hear Him, then I know you ain't hearing the verse

And if you looking for a check you gon' stay on the search

'Cause it don't ever make sense while you building your worth, nigga

Lemme say that shit again

You looking for a check you gon' stay on the search

'Cause it don't ever make sense while you building your worth, nigga

Why not?

Why can't I be the MVP of the league

Why can't I be the best player in the league?

I don't see why, why?

Look

On my granny grave you ain't gon play me for no fool

I got my family on my back, with my city in my shoes

I got a million on my mind, I got everything to lose

If I can't make it happen then I'm passing it to you

Look

A slim chance that I stand right here

Man I been thinking 'bout my life at this time last year

And the year before that saw my last few tears

'Cause letting down my own blood is my last few fears, on God

I'm just praying that it's more for me

More stories, with more glory

See what they selling online, that's a bore to me

But God keeping something tucked in the store for me

Ha, yeah

And I know at any moment, I could lose it all

See but since I follow God, I would trust the fall

Right back into my pocket like they hiked the ball

Big deuce all across my body like LaMelo Ball

Deal with all my shit up at the crib cause I never stall

Thinking like, 'fore a nigga make it who am I to y'all?

Take me back to 2010 Mardi Gras

Momma wouldn't let me leave the room if it was after dark

Should've known I can't relate with y'all

Me and mine shed blood, sweat and tears at the park

Have a varsity game, quick change hit the mall

I always been the one that's been involved

Yeah

Trusting God got my funding up

Dini called it '09 how we coming up

You put a nigga in my shoes, think he done enough

Think I'm on the train of thought and it's run amok

Why can't I do that?

Um, I think I work hard

Um, I think I dedicate myself to the game

And sacrifice a lot of things at a young age

And I know if I continue to like, do good, like

What I could get out of it

And if that's me going out, doing whatever

I'm willing to do it because

I know that in the long run

It's gonna help me