Basics Testo

Yeah

You don't know half of the shit that I've seen
You ain't been half of these places I've been
I put my faith and my trust in a dream now
I'm hopping in planes in pursuit for that C.R.E.A.M. (Hey)
I get money legit and I'm glad that it's clean (Yeah)
Got me a bag and I built me a team
They used to laugh at the kid as a teen
Now they call me a king like I dooried the queen They call me cousin, but we ain't relation
My people reside in the Gomeroi nation
Might put my mum on vacation to show that we made it
I'm sorry for the complication (Ayy)
Now you see a black man winning in a white man's system
They don't want to see that shit, no way (Ayy, ayy)
Rather make a black man villain, so police come kill him
With a badge and a gun every day, doot-doot-doot-doot (What can I say?)
Tell me it is what it is
I'm changing this shit for my kids (Oh)
Duffy's corner down to Lexo, we come from the ghetto
And that's why we doing it big (Sheesh)
So fuck what you thought I do this shit for my daught'
Thank god we didn't abort
Young and Indigenous, you gonna witness a brother
That's coming through, kicking down doors

We living good (We living good)
Count all my blessings, I learnt all my lessons from back in the hood
(Back in the hood) Shouts to the ones that been doubting and never believed that we would
(Nah)
I took my chances, and did everything that I knew and I could
(That's right)
Now we living cosy, we living blessed, and we living good

Right
Right
Yeah
Yeah (I'll never go to jail, [?])

Now let me take you back in time when shit was bad and we was broke
I spent most my time on benders, smoking yarndi, sniffing coke
Put my family through the ropes so much, my mum could hardly cope
Shit ain't a joke, man, I was so close to the end of losing hope (Yeah)
Lost so many friends to drugs, man, I swear that cut me deep
Lost some friends to suicide and I still see them in my sleep (Sheesh)
Sometimes I stop and think, man, will I ever be at peace?
Another year, another funeral, another friend deceased
Fucks sake, got so much up on my plate
But my daughter looks for guidance so I keep a poker face
Hold the whole world on my shoulders, man, we pray for better days
I hope Baiame sees my efforts that I put to better ways
I still know that I'm a sinner, don't think that that'll change
Where the fuck was Jesus Christ when I was scraping up for change?
Been through so much shit, I'm glad we made it through the rain
And if I had a second chance, I'd probably do this shit again, I'm just saying

So you seeing how we living now
Fuck, you thought we'd be the same? Shit, it's different now
Rather hear me talking like I was a criminal
They don't wanna hear I'm proud, fuck it, I'ma scream it loud, ah
Came a long way from addiction
These days it's good food and H2O in my system
Made it out, they hate it now, success leads to confliction
That's why we keep 'em so distant, 'cause people change in an instant
I got no time for no fake shit and I sure as hell don't take shit
Loyalty over everything, I'm with the same ones that I came with
Never settle for the same shit, we was never for the fame
It's the love, it's the pain, it's the art, just the basics