Mum said If you want to cry I'll give you something to cry about And since then I held my mouth I put my pen to the pad like your boy put that knife to his mouth Like run me your mobile now I put pride to the side and I leave it We've been grinding right now but once the fees in I invest it right back I ain't eating The fruit ain't fully formed yet what you reaping You wanna make bangers for now ite cool I'm trying to make songs that my children's children will feel I'm talking bout legacy I'm talking like grandfathers properties Lagos to London you're bugging me Empty buildings once were luxury My mum was raised Rich that shit bothers me Great grandads hotel I'm talking them kind of p's It's all Cain and Abel I guess Product of privilege I'm gassed and I'm pressed Embrace your culture look I'm black and I'm blessed And pray for your ends cause the hood is a mess And pray for your friends cause life can be stress sometimes Like I gotta take a breath sometimes and I've gotta protect and invest how I spend my time But I wanna have fun and I wanna dress cute and I wanna enjoy my youth Time is money so let's not waste it You wanna conversate while I wanna get a payslip I don't buy no Gucci or no Balmain It takes too much of my change How am I supposed to build an empire When I'm spending every nickel and dime on attire Mr I drive a Porsche But you don't pay child support That's more money more days in court A couple of you girls are shocking I hope them red bottoms support to you when you hit rock bottom Spending cash that you don't have Links to your mixtapes but they don't bang Onomatopoeia man I'm so impolite but it's needed We're eating the lies that they're feeding You love it like a fat kid loves cake I wear a short skirt therefore it means rape Ra explain that logic to me because I don't get it It's like half of these guys stunting bout their income Babes you just don't get it get it Unless it's that student loan money Then we both get it See my mum told me to live by my means and I mean to be a millionaire without a - Too scared of pills it's no fun I grab for my pen they grab guns They run through the six with their woes I run through south east on my own I like leather jackets and black skirts I can't ever suck dick to get heard Cause he's always tryna get his before hers And always trying to get on the track they can't verse I'm just keeping it real cause they won't Don't go and ask your bredrens they know Don't go and ask your bredrens they know They know you can't flow but still let you go It's peak I just deeped don't keep it up I can not keep in touch I'm in my own zone I'm in my own I've always been way too nice and I've had people taking the piss out of it And so you've got to flip that switch And now they're going to see a brand new side of the kid I went out on a limb for certains Came back an amputee for certains That's an old chapter let me pull that curtain tell em pause hole the applause Awkward black girl in the house