Brick by Brick Lyrics

Naw you wasn't with me when I had took them speakers out of Guitar Center

Let me jog your memory

We had the mic and laptop so I stole bass like Ricky Henderson

If they hem me up just take this shit and run

Usain Bolt sprints to the Sprinter van minivan shit we'll take your baby mama car

If she'll give a lending hand

All the while had a pen in hand contemplating writing to a Kendall jam

Hoping he say ooh that shit is slamming

Wasn't always upper echelon Hamburger Helper helped us on

Many occasions cans of tuna when electric's gone

Damn we can't record now might as well pull The Good Book out

And praise the Lord now it's funny how

Back in the day nobody couldn't tell me I wasn't gone get rich quick

But I had no connections no one to front me nobody wanna give me shit

Nickel and diming scratching and clawing tell the truth wasn't even think bout balling

Scheming and plotting lick after lick no complaints had to build it from the ground up

Brick by brick

Don't front you know I put the whole city on my back

Built it from the ground up and I did it brick by brick

Just like the Home Depot when the whip was facing repo

One man band collect call

Couldn't reach none of my people brick by brick

If you never felt the struggle of burning a roach with me

How can you ever appreciate making a toast with me brick by brick

Back in the day I was rapping on the mic talking like a tough boy

But in reality I was working at Applebee's I was a busboy

Get them dishes had to sweep cigarette butts

Out the parking lot when it wasn't busy

Humiliation fuck with your mentals

Had to get a bike couldn't afford a rental

My check ain't right how y'all deduct insurance

A brother don't even get dental

After that was a delivery boy at the Chinese joint

Next to the Winn Dixie or the Piggly Wiggly

My memory slips me only thing I remember I was 16

Making $615 riding a 10-speed

Always dreamed of me riding in a caddy

Back in the day nobody couldn't tell me I wasn't gone get rich quick

But I had no connections no one to front me nobody wanna give me shit

Nickel and diming scratching and clawing tell the truth wasn't even think bout balling

Scheming and plotting lick after lick no complaints had to build it from the ground up

Brick by brick

Don't front you know I put the whole city on my back

Built it from the ground up and I did it brick by brick

Brick by brick

Albany built it brick by brick 229 built it brick by brick

Dougherty County build it brick by brick Southwest Georgia built it brick by brick

GA Albany built it brick by brick Dougherty County built it brick by brick