Diamond Plaque Lyrics

What you know about living with cockroaches like they neighbors

And acting out your favorite shows cause you ain't got no cable

And kids growing too fast

It feel like they just hopped about the cradle

Outside carrying more sticks than a fucking pool table

And that's wild

Exposed to all this shit, I'm like what's next

Bills trying to drown us, they was piling up to our necks

Like they was art paintings, Ma collect them child support checks

No father in the crib, but that's normal up in our head

Always knew I had to make a way, from struggle gotta break away

Rapping over minor notes so I could make a major change

Rain, rain, fade away the phrase that stays inside my brain

Ringling brothers got none, how I juggle shit day by the day

Gangs trying to initiate me, I just wanted brotherhood

Ain't choreographers but made niggas dance like how Usher would

Even though I was a jit and was still lacking guidance

Knew the streets had two outcomes and neither had dollar signs there

Back when we was younger, all we wanted was the finer things

So all I want is Benjamins, I don't really desire fame

Since mama couldn't afford the diamond chains

With the diamond rings

Gotta get a diamond plaque, just so I could calm the pains

Yeah, I gotta calm this pain

From a place where there ain't much to lose but a lot to gain

Yeah, I'm bout to calm the pain

Diamond in the rough, this diamond plaque is calling my name

Struggle made me into a diamond

Who would have thought that I'd be rhyming

I was trying to be a ball player like Bron, Kobe Bryant

But then life started life'n

Took one semester in college just for me to drop out

Had me feeling like I'm Kanye

Okay

But I ain't no backpack rapper

Speak real shit about my life, then go trap back after

All these cap-ass rappers couldn't walk miles in my shoes

Crashing out inside my mental, but still smiling for the view

Bumping Pac in the whip

My ambitions as a rider

All my peers want designer

I want to fulfill my desires

I ain't sleepy, but I'm tired

Fuck the jeweler and supplier

Shit like an inferno

Can't no water put out all this fire

Ain't materialistic and won't be a statistic

Dealing with every misfortune turned me to a misfit

I swear to craving too strong

I gotta be the biggest

Plus I'm way too gifted

Santa Claus on Christmas, for real

Back when we was younger, all we wanted was the finer things

So all I want is Benjamins, I don't really desire fame

Since mama couldn't afford the diamond chains

With the diamond rings

Gotta get a diamond plaque, just so I could calm the pains

Yeah, I gotta calm this pain

From a place where there ain't much to lose but a lot to gain

Yeah, I'm bout to calm the pain

Diamond in the rough, this diamond plaque is calling my name