One I can shut down a verse or a chorus I done spent the whole summer time trappin' out of Martin's and Laurence You know got so much love for my roses So fuck the jewelers, next time you catch me going to the florist All I ever wanted was some progress, uh Everything above and beyond is a bonus I had armed jakes spinnin' up my ride for some posters Now they gotta watch everybody toast us Yo, it's a celebration, young black brothers being celebrated Elevation, no more separation Fail to plan, plan to fail, it took preparation Got a first in the trap with no dissertation Got the ammunition for my self-preservation And made the block lit, it took dedication For my brothers, not Jonas Now it's five OF tenants on the tour bus This life I still pray it ain't temporary it's for life And we stand in the morning all day And through the night When the sun goes up you see my diamonds on fire To get this water around my neck I had to cry, cry In the trenches, it's just trials and tribulations Found my education and found a new location I've fallen flat on my face, ain't seen familiar faces I got stabbed in my back, the article is bladed You know life's fucked up when your safe space is That dusty bando upsuh that the jakes invaded Wish I could make that happy music like Craig David But I'm pain built, get 'em paying for their playlist It was segregation that had a street niggas doing meditation Pops done his best, there were no explanation And now I'm tryna influence a generation Top floor reservation So high in the sky, can inspect the nation Turn up, and of course the view's amazing I guess it's compensation for the times that they took us We was looked down on, now the crowd's fifty-thousand This life Still pray t ain't temporary it's for life And we stand in the morning all day And through the night When the sun goes up you see my diamonds on fire To get this water around my neck I had to cry, cry