Cordae - Momma’s Hood(2022)

[00:00.01] Yeah, uh, yeah
[00:05.07] Yeah, uh
[00:11.13] I was riding through my momma's hood, rollin' in Jeep
[00:13.98] I ain't playin' with you niggas, boy, I'm playin' for keeps
[00:16.91] Fuck you pussy ass niggas tryna prey on the weak
[00:19.85] I ain't talkin' too much, I only say what I mean
[00:22.82] I bring the whole city out every time that I'm home
[00:25.71] How you all about business but don't be mindin' your own? (Yeah)
[00:28.46] Lord forgive me for my sins, I'm just tryna atone, huh
[00:31.76] I let that be well known, yeah
[00:34.55] Daydreamin' while I'm schemin' on a text
[00:37.72] Steady plottin' as I'm thinkin' on the next (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
[00:40.67] Confident although I find myself compressed
[00:43.42] Overthinking, worrying, I must confess (Yeah, yeah, yеah, yeah)
[00:46.69] Even though sometimеs I wish I was exaggerating
[00:49.53] And all my problems were just figments of imagination
[00:52.62] The smartest nigga who had dropped out, fuck your graduation
[00:55.57] I think that shit a fuckin' scam, somebody had to say it
[00:58.29] Caught up in a matrix, shit I had to find a way out
[01:01.00] Lost too many niggas, swear this shit is gettin' played out
[01:03.91] Student loan forgiveness, all my debt was finally paid out
[01:07.02] Appreciate this shit because the gutter I come straight out
[01:09.92] The bottoms of bottoms, to the top of the tops
[01:12.30] And that power washing van that I just bought for my pops
[01:15.79] I talk to him every now and then, more often than not
[01:18.46] We upgraded next time that I drop, but for now
[01:21.56] I was riding through my momma's hood, rollin' in Jeep
[01:24.04] I ain't playin' with you niggas, boy, I'm playin' for keeps
[01:27.11] Fuck these pussy ass niggas tryna prey on the weak
[01:29.87] I ain't talkin' too much, I only say what I mean
[01:33.01] I bring the whole city out every time that I'm home
[01:35.82] How you all about business but don't be mindin' your own?
[01:38.74] Lord forgive me for my sins, I'm just tryna atone, huh
[01:42.04] I let that be well known, yeah
[01:44.41] I heard the cage bird sing and it's a beautiful sound
[01:47.65] And it'd be so much fuckin' better, dog, if you was around
[01:50.68] Why they had to kill my nigga over a few little pounds?
[01:53.53] When I got robbed in high school you even flew to the town
[01:56.36] Couldn't really live with him, now I'm livin' without him
[01:59.55] And you was just here with us listenin' to the new album
[02:02.29] Told me that it was a classic, better than my last shit
[02:05.32] We used to have hoop dreams and skip all our classes
[02:08.17] And now my nigga dead and gone, shed these tears up in this song
[02:11.18] Shoulda got 'em out, I right my wrong, real niggas shit what I condone
[02:14.05] Every nigga got his flaws, accounts that's filled with withdrawals
[02:17.17] I paint pictures that's vivid because my feeling so raw
[02:20.00] This shit I'm dealing with, uh, is no mistake
[02:22.67] That I was put in this position just to open gates
[02:25.63] The niggas with the least to offer the most to say
[02:28.60] The funeral was too much, I couldn't show my face, instead
[02:31.77] I was riding through my momma's hood, rollin' in Jeep
[02:34.35] I ain't playin' with you niggas, boy, I'm playin' for keeps
[02:37.32] Fuck these pussy ass niggas tryna prey on the weak
[02:40.10] I ain't talkin' too much, I only say what I mean
[02:43.15] I bring the whole city out every time that I'm home
[02:46.01] How you all about business but don't be mindin' your own?
[02:49.17] Lord forgive me for my sins, I'm just tryna atone, huh
[02:52.31] I let that be well known, yeah
[02:54.46] (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
[02:56.18] This song is dedicated to my dog Juwan Walls
[03:01.29] They called him Pit
[03:03.07] Who got killed last summer in a shootout
[03:06.70] And um, we used to be on the basketball team together, man, me and him
[03:11.83] We always used to hoop together
[03:14.01] And um, bro was the first one gettin' money amongst us all, like
[03:19.41] He was like fifteen, sixteen years old
[03:22.28] And he-he always kept a bankroll on him, and uh
[03:25.70] I just miss my dog, man
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