Appreciate Me

(album: Compulsive - 2019)

We just products of our environment, you dig?
Survival is the mission and success is the reward, niggas, yeah

Kill or be killed, we was raised this way
Either eat or get ate, gotta live this way
Is you real or you fake? Ain't no in-betweens
Can't let this white man world fuck up a nigga dreams
I got bills and they late, selling weight to these fiends
Say it's love but it's hate, this shit ain't what it seems
Ain't no in-betweens (Ain't no in-betweens)
So in this white man world, can't let 'em fuck up a nigga dreams
Appreciate me
Fuck 'em, I done came up from nothing
In these projects still hustling, motherfucker
The ghetto appreciate me
Always got my name up in something
And they know how I'm coming, they tryna fuck up a nigga dreams

Homicide had no clue
Better hope that they catch him before I do
Put a seed inside these motherfucking projects and it grew
Had to get up out these motherfucking projects so I flew
And everybody ain't gon' keep it solid, you gotta push through
Watched how driving with no license turned into an indictment
Seven misdemeanors sent a nigga back on violation
Watch them tears start to fall, she was full of excitement
It's her birthday, and her husband's handcuffed in y'all's station
Food stamps for sale, who got some food stamps for sale?
She just tryna feed the kids, you know, while you rot in jail
And this judge wanna judge me but you not from here
Do you know how many people got shit this year? (Buckshots)

Kill or be killed, we was raised this way
Either eat or get ate, gotta live this way
Is you real or you fake? Ain't no in-betweens
Can't let this white man world fuck up a nigga dreams
I got bills and they late, selling weight to these fiends
Say it's love but it's hate, this shit ain't what it seems
Ain't no in-betweens (Ain't no in-betweens)
So in this white man world, can't let 'em fuck up a nigga dreams
Appreciate me
Fuck 'em, I done came up from nothing
In these projects still hustling, motherfucker
The ghetto appreciate me
Always got my name up in something
And they know how I'm coming, they tryna fuck up a nigga dreams

What it do?
We be stealing and killing for revenue
And I know I could do better but it's you that sell it too
And you tell me 'bout this devil while you standing on this pew
But as soon as the service over, you go and sin again
We just calling out for help, migo, please send 'em in
They don't have no idea what conditions we living in
I learned from all my lessons, this is now, that was then
I done counted all my blessings, I'm like, "Lord, I'm cashing in"
Let me fly, or these niggas just gon' continue to die
In your city with some pounds, in the venue with this nine
And I know these niggas clowns, can't look me in my eye
No lie, since you niggas wanna know why

The ghetto appreciate me
Fuck 'em, I done came up from nothing
In these projects still hustling, motherfucker
The ghetto appreciate me
Always got my name up in something
And they know how I'm coming, they tryna fuck up a nigga dreams
Kill or be killed, we was raised this way
Either eat or get ate, gotta live this way
Is you real or you fake? Ain't no in-betweens
Can't let this white man world fuck up a nigga dreams
I got bills and they late, selling weight to these fiends
Say it's love but it's hate, this shit ain't what it seems
Ain't no in-betweens (Ain't no in-betweens)
So in this white man world, can't let 'em fuck up a nigga dreams
Appreciate me
Fuck 'em, I done came up from nothing
In these projects still hustling, motherfucker
The ghetto appreciate me
Always got my name up in something
And they know how I'm coming, they tryna fuck up a nigga dreams