Mud

(Hell yeah)
(Dawg, dawg)
(Yeah, yeah)
(Verse 1 - Caleborate)
When the lights get bright
Are you gon' fade or you gon fall
How many times before you ball
Back pressed on brick wall
Watch the odds stack up against you
Tell me where you going now
When these chips fall
I won't be stuck on this block in disarray
Echos ringing in my brain
Same thang, every 3 am
Cold game, can't sleep
**** it, let's paint this pain away
Bob Ross how I turn my L's
Into some happy trees
Then we celebratin'
Throw blue faces
Hoes rake all my leaves
From probably
To prophecy
From pay for shows
To gotta see
Hate on me
Then you must hate yourself
That's truth and and honesty
Made it from the sandlot wit my niggaz
Told em stand by me
Now it's back and forth overseas
Shit feel like we a soccer team
Striking conversations
Always ending wit' a “follow me”
Told lil baby dating me's a situation
I exist in difference spaces
And I go thru 'em standing tall
like Phillip Banks
This more than making songs
I'm talking to my moms like every day
She preaching patience
I even called my pops to heal our situation
He said I been young
Just right ya wrongs and please don't lose your faith
10 toes down
Arms raised
When you perceived as dangerous
Black on black whip
A couple chains
We came this far from slaving
Copped my nephew a marathon tee
now he say that's his favorite
He think I'm so cool
I say I don't care
I just care that you make it
If it's a game of inches
Then just Babe Ruth
Or Willie Mays it
If it's a game of rules
Then bend them bitches
And deliver greatness
Yeah we been thru the struggle yeah we been through it all
We made it from the gutta now we just wanna ball
we just wanna ball
we just wanna ball
we just wanna ball
Yeah
Yeah we been through the mud
and we can't wash it off
And we been through so much and we just wanna ball
We just wanna ball
We just wanna ball
We just wanna ball
Remember sitting in my room bumping 'Real Person'
Tryna figure why my shit wasn't working
Thought I had it, tryna create static
And closed circuits
These niggaz tryna dim my light
Shine regardless
Go and get it if I gotta
From the projects
Not a problem
Having dreams of really ballin'
Hall of Fame, not talking novice
(yeah)
Shocked 'em they surprised
My shit together like apartments
When the friends ain't really callin'
Shammgod to get 'em off me
From catching cases to catching break
From pictures on the wall and the fridge
To taking pictures with greats
I make mistakes I hit my knees and I pray
Amazing grace
Homie hitting licks to mask and a car
To save face
(ah)
I wasn't wit' it
Just hitting, winning, wit bad intentions
See me carry
Weight on my wings
Feel like Mark Henry
Legendary, they try to treat me like I'm ordinary
Story never changed, and I'm still great
Tyler Perry
From the bottom
came up out it
from the mud
Funny how we remained silent
Leaving college
Broken pockets
Do it big
Not Milonakis
Feel the pressure
Niggaz tell me
Did I left 'em
Never switch
But know that I can't wait forever
Rapping in the pasture
Even pastors say that I'm they favorite
Granny on my bumper bout the Bible
Say she love me daily
In this game of inches, I go Primetime or Terrell Davis
All my niggaz get it out the turf
How we deliver greatness
Yeah we been thru the struggle yeah we been through it all
We made it from the gutta now we just wanna ball
we just wanna ball
we just wanna ball
we just wanna ball
Yeah
Yeah we been through the mud
and we can't wash it off
And we been through so much and we just wanna ball
We just wanna ball
We just wanna ball
We just wanna ball
Knowing that this life I'm living may end tonight
Sliced short by the knife of God
Cut down before blinking twice
I aim to make amends for my sins
With this pen I write
Defend this light in my soul
Before the darkness take hold
Of me
The hero and the coward feel the same
The fire burn within
But only one will taste the flames
Strange
Don't let the body hold you back
It's only real purpose is to carry the brain
Maintain
Maintain