Street Credit Lyrics

I was young and dumb, out here catching cases

I should've been in the booth, but I was embracing the pavement

Forgetting where the days went, nights when I was drinking

And started fighting, when I should've been writing

Playing on the edge, delighted in the fact that I had some street cred

I'm from a time where we respect violence

And reward silence, and support the talent

The streets were balanced, we just stayed prepared

For anything that happened, it was either playing ball or you were making it trapping

Cause everybody wanted that, even the cats that was rapping

The essence materialized so quick like it was magic

My mama didn't have it, my dad was absent

Unfortunately the time I needed him most didn't happen

Again the light still shine, and I'm still here with proof that I'm gone get mine

And I made it through the obstacles, and some of this shit was impossible

While I was intoxicated, thinking that this was the best time for me to be operating

I was just young with a lack of patience

I ain't have time for waiting, until it was my time to take it

Make them embrace it, and force it in they faces

I was young and dumb, out here catching cases

I should've been in the booth, but I was embracing the pavement

Forgetting where the days went, nights when I was drinking

And started fighting, when I should've been writing

Playing on the edge, delighted in the fact that I had some street cred

We fought for the best to achieve nothing less

Than what we was blessed with, and you wasn't taking that shit

Without a gun, you would've failed

I don't care if you was Tobias Wells, I stayed ready

You can never strong arm steady, but most of the stuff was petty

But the pride in the project was super high

I had dreams of being a kingpin, but I was only selling 2 for 5

Fronting on the block looking super fly

But I know who I am, and who I am not

Perfectly I am created with all my imperfections

Street intellectual, still creditable

But the smartest move I ever made, was when I left you

Proud when I met you, ready to fight the world if they disrespect you

But what did that do, what did that prove not a damn thing

Just a youth being dumb, wasted on the young

I continue to live, and continue to give

It's just life, why don't you live some

I was young and dumb, out here catching cases

I should've been in the booth, but I was embracing the pavement

Forgetting where the days went, nights when I was drinking

And started fighting, when I should've been writing

Playing on the edge, delighted in the fact that I have some street cred