Intro:
yeah this next joint right here...
is dedicated to all my niggas that I love
all the niggas that held it down with me through the whole shit
from the beginning of the fortto the now current day of the fort
from the beginning and the birth of this whole shit
to the now success of this whole shit
and all my peoples that be holdin it down for their peoples
ridin with them through thick and thinlove y all niggas
peep it

CHORUS 2X:
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Everytime I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my niggas
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All the things I doyou know I will hold my flags for you my niggas

verse 1
nowthis how the shit all started
was like doctors of ? I was being conceived kinda retarded
likeand while my moms was conceiving this beautiful baby
doctors was the this woman s stress out of this Jamaican lady
Pops beef and straight carrying on
nobody realizing how the god was now being born
ayoyo12
while they was wildin and shit
they couldn t even find my pulsesonogram on the frisk
sothey tried a natural birthbut had to stop production
baby stuck all up in the wombanother malfunction
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and now the doctors discover
they had to cut this lady s gutand c-section me out of my mother
Pop duke could only sit and ask why
looked up in the sky and begged for mercy from the most high
c monnow12
see now the day would feel blessed
watching the birth of a precious baby life manifest
see how that bugged me out

CHORUS

over chorus
that shitthat type shit be buggin me out cuz...
y know niggasnigga look back
to them days when you know shit is kinda ill like y knawmean?
nigganiggas like fall outy knawmean?
motherfuckers isniggas live long enough to look back and shit and
laugh and shity knawmean?

verse 2
young and learnin shit that started is thick
started inquiring alotstarted using my dick
like I knew it all but I wasn t really knowin and shit
buggin when my pubic hairs started growin and shit
now hold upa young nigga now a couple years pass
searchin desperate to experience my first piece of ass
nowgettin into mischief and caught my first arrest
started smoking weed and started totin on them cigarettes
eyes bloodshot like I was starin at a highbeam
nigga only twelve so why he lookin like he nineteen?
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the fast life babyyoung with an old soul
from the past life baby
a young nigga wanted things and wanted money quick
ambitious on the Amtrakwit a quarter brick
my nigga12
it got hot in the streets
my nigga campaign the cops who started walkin the beatmy nigga
trouble causin too much problems just me and my brother
made mommy a grandma and shacked up with my babymother
now it a seedI was always ready to clap shit
strugglinso then I start fuckin round with this rap shit
moved to Long Island and got up with a few niggas
believin we could show the world we was the Leaders Of the New niggas
a crew of niggas that was hot like an infirmary
blazin til they started actin like bitches internally
so nowFlipmode is how we own it fo sho
tried to fuck with niggas but I couldn t do it no more
fo rilla12
and then I got with some niggas
always wit it to multiply the gross and double the figgas
and then Ihit with bombs and hold a stack in my palms
whippin Bentleysfloss icy shit and take care of moms
give the local little old man a job as my chaeuffeur
hold it down for all my niggas til the movement is over
it s kinda beautiful

CHORUS repeats to end

over chorus
yeahy knawmean?
how we have acquired so much
where we can look back andand actually laugh and lavish
in thein thein the moment
as we prime in life
look at how wewe struggled all this way and went through the bullshit
motherfuckinlittle obstacles
situations they try to set up for niggas to fuckin fall off
and lose they hard earned shity knowmean?
I holds it down for my niggas though
give my last to my niggas
all the niggas that was wit me through the whole shit
love y all niggasword
my Flipmode niggasman

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