Ivy Sole - East lyrics

[verse 1] Imma rap about how good I am at rapping cuz they told me to Rap about how bullets make the metaphors real potent Imma tell you how the bullets make the body into window Shoot the breeze and shoot the fade and never keep the screens too open If you ponder it, the trap is just a startup, just some product And you catching cats or marta, even septa with the starter coat Cold world but Imma show every single artichokes, the green is reason, and the rhyming and the resolve When we solve a problem, it's reaching to the root And I'm undone, unraveling everything I took as truth I took for granted living on the east with the hitters All that hustle in the heartbeat, all that grinding through the grimace If I could go back, I'd pen a love letter to idlewild To rama road and harris and the wendy's on independence Where it was knocking if you bucking in the trenches til it's finished Where I saw that the beauty ain't real without the grit up in it [Chorus] What you know about the east? All I know is what I've seen It ain't nothing like the coast If you know it how I know, you'll see the forest through the trees

[verse 2] See I ain't east east Just a Presby baby from the west Went to middle school up north And went southside for all the rest You pressing luck and testing my patience asking if I'm from the fo' If you ever had a question, now you got it from the go Before the locs before the fro, it was lo on my chest Spending summer on the pavement marched and played clarinet See I balled for a minute, but I never got finished Ambition had my mama driven she had to hit that reset One semester deep, I started loving being Black Then we moved again I chucked the deuce and that was that But 07 was a year that I'll never forget Bumping Da Drought everyday in ISS They gon say that I ain't from there, and yes I guess that's true But I know the eastside like Ella knows the blues It's a part of me now, just like it hardened me then They say you can't know where you're going if you don't know where you been so [Outro] What you know about the east I don't know thing I was there for 5 months 2 weeks and 3 days, all I know is what I've seen What you know about the east I'll tell you what I left behind