My Niggas - Joell Ortiz, !llmind

I ain’t tryna shit on y’all niggas

I don’t want y’all to feel a way

I’m just livin', my niggas

Tryna make today a better day

How can you not feel that, my nigga?

I grew up in the 'jects around killers

MAC-11s, TECs and 9 millis

Welfare checks and wild dealers

I’m just happy I made it out the slums, my nigga

We scrambled over crumbs, my nigga

Tried to get fly, to avoid bein' bums, my nigga

It’s rough where I’m from, my nigga

Back block fakin', crack pot shakin'

Welcome to the hood, my niggas

It’s never all good, my niggas

They thought I’d be in jail

They thought that I’d get high

They thought that I would die, my niggas

I looked inside my grandmother’s eyes

Promised her I would try, my niggas

Y’all hatin', I’m like, «Why, my niggas?»

I was like you, barely gettin' by, my niggas

Barely gettin' by, my niggas

Ridin' in the hoop, doin' like 5, my niggas

Tryna duck the 5, my niggas

Out there on the grind, take a 9 for a dime

Just tryna get mine, my nigga

Lookin' back, I was out my mind

How the fuck did I find time to try to write rhymes, my nigga?

Crab niggas try to grab you down

Know how hard it is to climb, my nigga?

Let a nigga shine, my nigga

I’m finna cop the coupe and I’m rippin' off the roof

Whenever the sun shine, my nigga

My nigga, we talkin' 'bout me

Before the record deals, dealin', tryin' not to get a record

Boy we got it crackin' on that hill

Niggas cracked but I ain’t squeal

I’ve always been real, for the record

Damn right I made it, you niggas gon' take it how you take it

But no if/ands, all the bitches are butt naked

You sittin' there hatin'

I’m standin' here shakin' the dice, we out Vegas

You mad, I’m like, «Why, my niggas?»

I was like you, barely gettin' by, my niggas

Barely gettin' by, my niggas

Ridin' in the hoop, doin' like 5, my niggas

Tryna duck the 5, my niggas

New niggas try to give me dap, but I just duck the 5, my niggas

When I was just startin', they was just watchin'

Friendship, I can’t justify, my niggas

It’s just us, yup, just me and my niggas

Cups up, fucked up, we some wild niggas

Y’all niggas is lame, it’s a shame

You change the way you look at things

The things you look at’ll start to change

You blamin' me?

Why, my niggas?

You mad, I’m like, «Why, my niggas?»

I was like you, barely gettin' by, my niggas

Barely gettin' by, my niggas

Ridin' in the hoop, doin' like 5, my niggas

Tryna duck the 5, my niggas

Tryna duck the 5, duck niggas