[Pre-verse}
Yeah... let me get it like, let me get it, let me get it like, like
Let me get it like...
[Verse 1]
Look into the mirror staring back
Was a clothes tethered, yeah, hoes never cared
With a flow that can heal souls better, rare
Go-getter, dough? Clear I never cared for that
Hey, name's Dey, may have heard me
I'm great, if you fake then you straight razor worthy
And I ain't playing gangsta, I ain't
But don't think you won't catch a stitch like a fake laker jersey
Just the runt of the litter
At 13 busting cups of the liquor
At 14, cutting up with a s*ut
15, puffing blunts, s**ing up on a swisher
Never been around it, you ain't been about it
Wool told me eat less, that's the best start
But 17, I was fat, grew a beard so you see where my chin ends and my starts like woah
I'm a piece of sh**
But if cops lock us up, I'mma plead the fifth
And if you tryna get high, I'll be dry
But if you tryna drink, think my momma got at least a fifth
18, want girls, booty, woo, that's my weakness
Big homie said, choose who I'm freaking
That would not fly, I would plot wise
Lived like Popeye's, meaning two side pieces, woah
[Hook 1]
They told me Dey, don't chase yo' friends, lil homie
Go to school make some f**ing plans, lil homie
Leave the street, please, enjoy yo' fam, lil homie
You need to understand, you the man, lil homie
Lil homie (repeated)
[Verse 2]
Seen some moves from the crews with the tools packed
But I'm a youth in the booth with a new rap
Cause big homie told me, dude, don't do that
Same homie, I just seen bruised in the news flash
Big homie, you often on my brain
You auction off this 'caine 'til they tossed you in a cage
'Member talking of the day you would soften up your ways
Feel bad, cause I know you got a daughter on the way
And you my big homie, and I'm your lil homie
And all those lessons you stressed turned to blessing
You don't even know what you did, homie
Wish you never been about it, got up out it
Never been around it, but you did and found some green, God
Wish you split up out it with your kid and found that
Life is better without pitching for your riches, screaming, 'squad'
But I get it
Yeah, I get it
Cause I been around it, never been about it
Seen the money and the b**hes, seen the cream around it
'Member being young and dreamed about it
You said, 'Bishop keep on spitting,' and you seen about it
Now I see you pitching for the green, I doubted
They would ever catch you slipping but I read about it
Now you in the prison, living, different than the scene you founded
When you leave the prison, you'll see its me the crown with
[Hook 2]
Cause you told me, Dey, don't chase yo' friends, lil homie
Go to school make some f**ing plans, lil homie
Leave the street, please, enjoy yo' fam, lil homie
You need to understand, you the man, lil homie
Lil homie (repeated)
[Beat switch]
[Pre-verse]
Turn it up in the head phone, turn it up a little bit
[Verse 3]
Lead my brethren, I got to teach these lessons
Cause my people stressing so they blessing ganja, reefer, cesses
My lil homies plotting, dollars got 'em pleading begging
Getting caught with possession like apostrophes and S's
Lead my brethren, they plotting on dough
But by being shady maybe bringing drama to foes
Pop they collar, copping gwala, ringing llamas at homes
Yeah, they pistol whistle like its tryna holla at hoes
So understand, rap isn't just a pencil and a beat
Understand that my mans is essential in my scheme
Only reason I continue penciling this heat
Is I'm the only friend they have with potential and a dream
Lil homie, 17, caught a case in Ocean County
Tryna try him as adult, but dog, I hope for county
And if there's one thing you should know about me
Is I set myself fire tryna warm the folk around me
And puff was wrong, if there's less money, there's more troubles
Or more problems, I work inside of this war rubble
So if you tryna fight, I won't ignore scuffles
f**boy, I'll be swinging more than a bored couple
Said my lil homies sparking chrome
Leave your heart at home, they'll part your 'fro
And you don't stand a chance, they'll call an ambulance just to
Unplug your life support so they can charge they phone
Watch me work through this rubble
Reinvigorate they mind every verse that I hustle
And I'm working 'til my bones simply burst through my knuckles
Cause to a dreamer, mediocrity is worse than a struggle
Its why I tell them, be a man, don't chase friends, lil homie
Go to school make some f**ing plans, lil homie
Leave the street, please, enjoy yo' fam, lil homie
You need to understand, you the man, lil homie
Lil homie