Never Been - Dave East, Matt Patterson

Our life was never borin'

Every 5 dollars counted, shit that sandwich was important

I love my niggas, understand it how I call it

Loc 'till I’m dead, like eggs we would scramble every mornin'

Holla at red, LAX, we landin' at 4

Me and Loc use to stand by the store

Hope the cameras was off

I did my own dirt, puttin' all of my own work

How much I could make off of these grams?

That was my homework

You can’t understand the highway 'till you hit the road first

Thinkin' I was a draft pick the minute I had that growth spurt

Same nigga played the corner, bodega with no shirt

Sunflower seeds and Sour Patches, I was askin'

For extensions on the rent, now it’s designer fabric (designer)

Couldn’t sit on auntie furniture, if not the plastic (we couldn’t)

Really gotta be out your mind to survive the madness

It ain’t hard to buy a boat, it’s hard to find a captain

It ain’t hard to find the smoke, it just depend who askin' (who want it?)

I gave hope to every block that’s in upper Manhattan (Harlem)

We gave dough burn the tips, I use to light my baggies (burner)

Don’t focus on us, focus on keepin' wifey happy

If you my nigga, you ain’t ever gotta question it

I give you my last, I think my heart too big to measure it

Step on the gas, I’m standin' up 'cause I could never sit

Tryna take my niggas to all the places they never been

If you my nigga, you ain’t ever gotta question it

Step on the gas, I’m standin' up 'cause I could never sit

Tryna take my niggas to all the places they never been

It was so real, breakfast lunch and dinner was oatmeal

I don’t drink soda but I’m so familiar with coke deals

They robbed him when he bought it, ain’t get to see how that coat feels

Might not know her name but I could tell you how her throat feels

You don’t really know me, you ain’t know me when I sold pills

Bub told me don’t pour it up if it ain’t got no seal

Chill never paid the bills, mental racin' still

Had no TV, now I pay multiple cable bills

I remember Malil tellin' me, «Take the wheel»

Back when Freekey told me rap they probably gonna make a deal

Deafen my body, I hate the way it make me feel

If my niggas slidin', I’m slidin', I really played the field

We got felonies but jealously can never break us

Talked to Drizzy up in Toronto, I’m missin' hella paper

Most of my niggas do bids, chasin' money, go up north and get big

Might come home to no crib

We got parole on us, walk with the heat, we keep the stove on us

NYPD just pray that I get pulled with old warrants

If you told on us, on God, you broke the code on us

5 in the mornin', in your momma crib with no warnin'

If you my nigga you ain’t ever gotta question it

I give you my last, I think my heart too big to measure it

Step on the gas, I’m standin' up 'cause I could never sit

Tryna take my niggas to all the places they never been

If you my nigga you ain’t ever gotta question it

Step on the gas, I’m standin' up 'cause I could never sit

Tryna take my niggas to all the places they never been

Tryna take my niggas to all the places they never been

Tryna take my niggas to all the places they never been

Tryna take my niggas to all the places they never been