(Hook x2) I been grindin' my whole life, n***a Know w'talkin' bout? x2 I've been checking it for a check Know w'talkin' bout? x2 (Verse) I been grindin' my whole life, n***a Know w'talkin' bout? Most of my realest n***as got life, n***a Know w'talkin' bout? On parole and got a few strifes, n***a Know w'talkin' bout? If it's a green light, we do it right, n***a I wouldn't chance sh*t, I do it twice, n***a (Verse) I'm in the hood, sellin' this dope, n***a Know w'talkin' bout? f**k around and get smoked, n***a Know w'talkin' bout? Fourty eight hundid for the out-dope, n***a Know w'talkin' bout? Got that girlscout for the loft, n***a Know w'talkin' bout? (Hook x2) I been grindin' my whole life, n***a Know w'talkin' bout? x2 I've been checking it for a check Know w'talkin' bout? x2 (Verse) I woke up to two hunid texts, n***a Only one I replied to is that bread n***a All these years I been lied to I finna tax to give me, these n***as Who are tryna tell me I don't have a lane Step in the wood, wishin' I had a chain Wish that I had a dad, wonder what he would say Got boxed up and I won, n***a Cous' down and I hit boys, my son, n***a At 13 I rode 13s, n***a At 15 I stacked 15Gs, n***a You know I've been a gladiator since the halls, n***a You know I kick the radiator, cool you off, n***a You know that mash up a man, like Kahn shoppa han So you n***as won't defy, I'm the quickest on the line Get get get get yo grind on Get yo crime on Get money only thing I spend my time on (Hook x2) I been grindin' my whole life, n***a Know w'talkin' bout? x2 I've been checking it for a check Know w'talkin' bout? x2 (Verse) I sat from Foot Hill to Spreuce Street Know w'talkin' bout? x2 With beef we don't talk about If it's drama, we gon' come thru and talk about Betta believe it Had the airforce one, but the strap down I f**kin' peck out, you get peffed yout n***a dat jump out he will be smacked down Same hoes used to front, want it from the back now Five o cinc, back down Had to eat the top, hunting for the pack now Hit-Boy, say a price, f**k dat, you hoggin' the mike Lemme rap now! Make some noise if you're high right now Ha! That's what I'm talkin' bout I need all my money, all cash in my right hand Or I'm walkin' out, because I'm too high, I too drunk, I'm too good, I'm on Is mister body everything and this ain't my song? I promise, baby, it won't take long I come in, I f**k sh*t up, I leave and I'm gone (Hook x2) I been grindin' my whole life, n***a Know w'talkin' bout? x2 I've been checking it for a check Know w'talkin' bout? x2 (Verse) When I talk, don't speak, n***a Know w'talkin' bout? x2 Don't you be all in yo feelings Know w'talkin' bout? x2 On this paper chase fo' years, my n***a Know w'talkin' bout? x2 This that Crisha District, feel it Know w'talkin' bout? x2 Wait, did they say the game was ova yet? I know they didn't say it Ballin' so hard so they know we ain't playn Got a calling card from my n***as in the pen It was on the boulevard, you know what they slang And all we eva wanted was some millions, n***a You notice when it's real ones in the building (Hook x2) I been grindin' my whole life, n***a Know w'talkin' bout? x2 I've been checking it for a check Know w'talkin' bout? x2 (Verse) Can't tell me sh*t a n***a ain't seen, n***a Know w'talkin' bout? Almost did life when I was 15 Know w'talkin' bout? Doin' dirty work for me and my team Know w'talkin' bout? Now we gettin' payed on 16s, n***a Know w'talkin' bout? I been grindin' my whole life, hoe Spendin' money like we never had money 'Cause we never had money, n***a what, what, what Spendin' money like we never had money 'Cause we never had money, n***a what, what, what f**k a n***a frontin', I do this sh*t for the family Only n***a to put n***as on the Grammys There he go again, talkin' 'bout his Grammy The beats put him on but the flow's been advancing