[Verse 1: Leo]
Yo we no gangsta
We just young black and anxious
To make it out the ghetto, overcome the circumstances
Seek some answers
Coz the news was designed to keep us down, damn anchors
Male or female they both detailing the negatives
Media always dictating the way to live
A weight 'll lift off my shoulders
The day we grow old enough to notice that we kings and queens, bolder
Than the headlines that they print to keep our jaws dropped
They managed to get us all shocked
Into paralysis, I'm thinking how bad is this
My manner shift
From blowing trees to planting seeds - The medicine
Was transfigured in these letters and, we menacing
They f**ed up the day they let us in
And they may never let us win
But we taking over
Never learnt to swim but we'll break these chains so away we'll float, bruh
[Hook: Tobby Mac]
Oh what do you think when you see these pants hanging down oh?
A thug oh no, a thug oh no Im not that kind
Do you see the evil in my eye?
Do you think you seeing the wrong one, know why?
The innocent one Im not that type oh
[Verse 2: Leo]
We not mobsters
We just lost and unconscious
No helicopters but we got choppers
To rock us to sleep every eve and, our eyes red
We don't barely sleep any, wise man
Told me that our eyes red
From all the tears we hide and the eyes never lie
And the fire never dies, we surprise them
They never see us down
Wear a smile all the time
Not to cover up, but to let that beauty shine
Double up, I got to get mine, got to get mine
Yeah I got to get mine, got to get mine
All in due time
Tryna glow, go to polish shoe shine
Look, call it doing time
Son we trapped in the maze
Its amazing when one of us breaks free
We got to celebrate it
Cups to the sky, taking shots to the mind
Shots to the mind
[Hook: Tobby Mac]
[Bridge: Tobby Mac]
I got my black hoodie on
Im walking down to the store
My mama sent me to get milk at the store
Nobody sent me to rob no-one oh
I got my black hoodie on
Im walking down the street to the store
Please don't shoot me, Im not a thug
No oh