Survival

[Verse]
I'm taking pleasure in watching you niggas sit on the sidelines and bitch about me
Spit your disses in dissidence and then disavow me
This allows me to disembowel you, insist to crowd me
Leave you fast asleep in a deep canal with the fish and algae
This is how we survived Richmond in his surroundings
In his housing complex, mothers wept from the pistols touting
It's good for grounding, it kept me humble, away from trouble
Found a subtle way to accept struggle, I'ma need some counseling
I'ma need some ousting, I'm cleaning house
Getting rid of these nonproductive, destructive people that seem to cloud me
But as clear as my vision is now
I'ma revisit these trials and learn from the fake folks that I knew would doubt me
I've been through adversity, never diverted me, nothing is shaking my confidence
I did it with certainty, never insertin' myself for the purpose of compliments
When mother was nursing me, never occurred to be I would be nothing but dominant
I took the lessons I learned as a child and founded a way when I came into prominence
Anything that broke me only made my edges sharper
Anyone provokes me knows my only weapon's karma
Try to listen closely, witness as the stress can garner
Jewel after jewel, my profession's the protective armor
I battled my way through the ranks and I'm thankful and grateful for what it did
I took on the pressure, repetitive hurdles, I hustled when others hid
I used to think money and stardom would follow me just 'cause I wanted it
Had to work harder and martyr my ego and harvest the hardship I had as a younger kid
I don't pay along, get along, got a long resume, come test me
Niggas don't admit when they wrong, so they roam on the net unchecked, see
The more that you babble, the more you unravel, you wanna shoot deep but got called for a travel
You would just rather go home with your ball than learn from the fall and shake off the gravel
Look at the maneuvers I been doing, I'm renewing
I've been moving at a new speed
Contradicting everything that you're picking in your news feed
You don't take a liking unrequited, so you lose sleep
I don't get offended but defend it when I do see
There is not an independent artist that can move me
Neither on a label that is able to disable
What I'm giving to the public, you can snub it but I choose me
Even when it's raining, you can feel the friction
Flowers come far and few between like police convictions
If you from Richmond, you've been grinding under these conditions
This is just the start 'til I seize position, feel me?