Cordae - Momma’s Hood

[00:00.01] Yeah, uh, yeah [00:05.07] Yeah, uh [00:11.13] I was riding through my momma's hood, rollin' in Jeep [00:13.98] I ain't playin' with you niggas, boy, I'm playin' for keeps [00:16.91] Fuck you pussy ass niggas tryna prey on the weak [00:19.85] I ain't talkin' too much, I only say what I mean [00:22.82] I bring the whole city out every time that I'm home [00:25.71] How you all about business but don't be mindin' your own? (Yeah) [00:28.46] Lord forgive me for my sins, I'm just tryna atone, huh [00:31.76] I let that be well known, yeah [00:34.55] Daydreamin' while I'm schemin' on a text [00:37.72] Steady plottin' as I'm thinkin' on the next (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) [00:40.67] Confident although I find myself compressed [00:43.42] Overthinking, worrying, I must confess (Yeah, yeah, yеah, yeah) [00:46.69] Even though sometimеs I wish I was exaggerating [00:49.53] And all my problems were just figments of imagination [00:52.62] The smartest nigga who had dropped out, fuck your graduation [00:55.57] I think that shit a fuckin' scam, somebody had to say it [00:58.29] Caught up in a matrix, shit I had to find a way out [01:01.00] Lost too many niggas, swear this shit is gettin' played out [01:03.91] Student loan forgiveness, all my debt was finally paid out [01:07.02] Appreciate this shit because the gutter I come straight out [01:09.92] The bottoms of bottoms, to the top of the tops [01:12.30] And that power washing van that I just bought for my pops [01:15.79] I talk to him every now and then, more often than not [01:18.46] We upgraded next time that I drop, but for now [01:21.56] I was riding through my momma's hood, rollin' in Jeep [01:24.04] I ain't playin' with you niggas, boy, I'm playin' for keeps [01:27.11] Fuck these pussy ass niggas tryna prey on the weak [01:29.87] I ain't talkin' too much, I only say what I mean [01:33.01] I bring the whole city out every time that I'm home [01:35.82] How you all about business but don't be mindin' your own? [01:38.74] Lord forgive me for my sins, I'm just tryna atone, huh [01:42.04] I let that be well known, yeah [01:44.41] I heard the cage bird sing and it's a beautiful sound [01:47.65] And it'd be so much fuckin' better, dog, if you was around [01:50.68] Why they had to kill my nigga over a few little pounds? [01:53.53] When I got robbed in high school you even flew to the town [01:56.36] Couldn't really live with him, now I'm livin' without him [01:59.55] And you was just here with us listenin' to the new album [02:02.29] Told me that it was a classic, better than my last shit [02:05.32] We used to have hoop dreams and skip all our classes [02:08.17] And now my nigga dead and gone, shed these tears up in this song [02:11.18] Shoulda got 'em out, I right my wrong, real niggas shit what I condone [02:14.05] Every nigga got his flaws, accounts that's filled with withdrawals [02:17.17] I paint pictures that's vivid because my feeling so raw [02:20.00] This shit I'm dealing with, uh, is no mistake [02:22.67] That I was put in this position just to open gates [02:25.63] The niggas with the least to offer the most to say [02:28.60] The funeral was too much, I couldn't show my face, instead [02:31.77] I was riding through my momma's hood, rollin' in Jeep [02:34.35] I ain't playin' with you niggas, boy, I'm playin' for keeps [02:37.32] Fuck these pussy ass niggas tryna prey on the weak [02:40.10] I ain't talkin' too much, I only say what I mean [02:43.15] I bring the whole city out every time that I'm home [02:46.01] How you all about business but don't be mindin' your own? [02:49.17] Lord forgive me for my sins, I'm just tryna atone, huh [02:52.31] I let that be well known, yeah [02:54.46] (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) [02:56.18] This song is dedicated to my dog Juwan Walls [03:01.29] They called him Pit [03:03.07] Who got killed last summer in a shootout [03:06.70] And um, we used to be on the basketball team together, man, me and him [03:11.83] We always used to hoop together [03:14.01] And um, bro was the first one gettin' money amongst us all, like [03:19.41] He was like fifteen, sixteen years old [03:22.28] And he-he always kept a bankroll on him, and uh [03:25.70] I just miss my dog, man [03:29.05]