Davis Absolute - Hometown lyrics

[Hook: Mogli The Iceburg & Davis Absolute] And you know we puttin' on for the hometown Felt the struggle in them days Never thought that makin' moves will get me paid Pave the way With the whole town Now these people say we's good 'Bout some years ago they said we never could Puttin' on for the hometown Felt the struggle in them days Never thought that makin' moves will get me paid Pave the way With the whole town Ooh, puttin' on for my hometown [Verse 1: Mogli The Iceburg] Let me take you back in time to like 2008 Bumpin' Soulja Boy and rockin' [?] 8's Gucci Mane and Wayne were our speakers and were always speakin' 'bout these pa**in' and gainin' weight And we was just some kids and we would anyway Looking back from now it was pretty fortunate that we never got to blow up Had to live some life so we could grow up Had to do some shows were we would blasphemy, people came to show up To humble us with ego started playin' man Eventhough we rappin' for the Saviour some just see the success Got some girls from back home sending scandalous texts Because they see me as a rapper with a presumptive image Still partyin' to my beats but they don't listen to the lyrics And it k**ed me when I realised that I compromised Given to my flesh and influenced these guys to something other than my Christ I'm only human but you know I'm tryna hold it down Yeah, yeah [Hook: Davis Absolute & Mogli the Iceburg] And you know we puttin' on for the hometown We felt the struggle in them days Never thought that makin' moves will get me paid Pave the way With the whole town Now these people say we's good 'Bout some years ago they said we never could Puttin' on for the hometown We felt the struggle in them days Never thought that makin' moves will get me paid Pave the way With the whole town Yeah, puttin' on for my hometown Ahh [Verse 2: Davis Absolute] Let me take you back to 2003 Picture me Rappin' about a life that I've never seen Sippin' fictional elixir, I was addicted to spittin' But every rhythm that I was pennin' never hit so I figured That I would be like them And just live a life of pretend I could do and say what I wanted And they never knew what I didn't And then I said the wrong name and they showed up Black guy, baptized in my own blood Spittin' out my own blood Why they follow me home Tinted windows no headlights on, why they whippin' it slow Hot as ever in this city but I'm chilled to the bone Contemplating like "will I make it home, maybe I won't" Around the same time I got sin outta state But God is great Fast forward to 2008 And after that I kept rappin' for a minute But God started showing me something different Man we [Hook: Mogli The Iceburg and Davis Absolute]