2006

Let me talk to 'em, yeah I'm just tryna get my mind right I did what I said I would, I got my mom right I be squarin' up on doubt, like it's on sight The better part of me is tellin' me it's alright, yeah I'm just tryna get my mind right I did what I said I would, I got my mom right I be squarin' up on doubt, like it's on sight The better part of me is tellin' me it's alright, yeah This is '06 motives with 2010 potions I ain't have shit but my confidence and focus Dice game, I'm rollin' 'til I get seven Givin' hell at eighteen, I'm smokin' 'til I reach heaven Dropped out in the years that followed after Coulda made you think, I should have stayed in school and finished But 2016 became a multimillionaire rapper Thank God I didn't live accordin' to y'all's vision I never listen to anything but my gut From fifty dollars a week to two hundred thousand a month This is off my fables, top flight angels My TuneCore is a top five label Before the fame and managerial figures Stalkin' pictures on the wall like we were serial killers Held the camera once or twice, and I edited it too When I speak, it's from experience of every shoe, yeah I'm just tryna get my mind right I did what I said I would, I got my mom right I be squarin' up on doubt, like it's on sight The better part of me is tellin' me it's alright, yeah I'm just tryna get my mind right I did what I said I would, I got my mom right I be squarin' up on doubt, like it's on sight The better part of me is tellin' me it's alright, yeah This is ten years, six careers, mastered by one Watch your tone when you talk to me, these rappers are bums When it comes to what I'm doing or rather how much I am your whole team, you should respect me as such '97 Nissans to McLarens with trunks in the front I might pull up on my high school crush tryna fuck Of course she is, make her walk barefooted in my house I get the mouth when she sees the square footage, uh I'm just playin' my cards, you would play 'em if you had 'em Fourteen, makin' beats, friends laughin' at me Askin', "What, you think you gon' be famous or somethin'?" But I landed where I'm at 'cause I was aiming for something Y'all were aiming for nothing, guess it's f******u for life Even back then I felt like it was f******ur advice, damn I been me, yes, all the above Before the hate, before the love Man, I always been Russ, yeah I'm just tryna get my mind right I did what I said I would, I got my mom right I be squarin' up on doubt, like it's on sight The better part of me is tellin' me it's alright, yeah I'm just tryna get my mind right I did what I said I would, I got my mom right I be squarin' up on doubt, like it's on sight The better part of me is tellin' me it's alright, yeah --- 2006 - Russ