Released: December 12, 2017
Songwriter: Rod Wave
[Intro]
Hey, hey, hey, hey
[Chorus]
And it's hard to keep your eye on the prize, when you come out the trenches where, niggas, they don't survive (They don't survive)
Will I get a mil' and put on for the team? (Put on)
Will I see eighteen and get to live out my dreams?
I'm startin' to think I think too much
But my mama, she think I don't think enough
But I'm startin' to think that I think too much
But my mama believe I don't think enough
Ayy, ayy
[Verse 1]
Young nigga and I come straight out the bottom
Where the younger niggas pistol poppin'
And that's how we solve all they problems
And it kinda make me wonder, “Will a nigga fall a victim?”
My brother hit for a chicken, I think somebody gon' kill him
I think it's best I give him this choppa while I tote a thirty rounds
I don't pull over for coppers, I know how it's goin' down
Won't shoot me with my hands up
'Cause I'm young, black, and handsome and in this Phantom, tryna get my bands up
Beast while in the streets but I'm still my grandma grandson
No remorse for me so I gotta keep my pants up
Beast while in the streets but I'm still my grandma grandson
No remorse for me so I gotta keep my pants up
[Chorus]
And it's hard to keep your eye on the prize, when you come from the trenches where, niggas, they don't survive (They don't survive)
Will I get a mil' and put on for the team?
Will I see eighteen and get to live out my dreams? (What about my dreams?)
I'm startin' to think I think too much
But my mama, she think I don't think enough
But I'm startin' to think that I think too much
But my mama, she think I don't think enough
Ayy, ayy
[Bridge]
I don't think enough (No, I don't)
I don't think enough (No, I don't)
I don't think enough
[Verse 2]
Sometimes it feel like nobody understand me
I'm tryna get moms a Bentley and get a mansion for granny
I got bigger problems than you, bitch, I'm tryna feed my family
Everybody get mad, they can't get a piece of the candy
Can't make everybody happy, they feel like I'm doin' 'em dirt'
Was sippin' lean and smokin' purp, just tryna calm down my nerves
Everyday somebody else face end up on a shirt
So the shit won't work, I think I need to go to church
Instead, I'm thuggin' and robbin' and hangin' with all of the goblins
Mama said, "Go to school" but I was hangin' in the projects
Can't think in math class 'cause ain't no money in my wallet
Can't even go to lunch 'cause ain't no crunch in my pocket
[Chorus]
And it's hard to keep your eye on the prize (On the prize), when you come from the trenches where, niggas, they don't survive (They don't survive)
Will I get a mil' and put on for the team? (That's for the team)
Will I see eighteen and get to live out my dreams? (My dreams)
I'm startin' to think I think too much
But my mama, she think I don't think enough
But I'm startin' to think that I think too much
But my mama, she think I don't think enough
Ayy
Hey, hey, hey, hey
[Chorus]
And it's hard to keep your eye on the prize, when you come out the trenches where, niggas, they don't survive (They don't survive)
Will I get a mil' and put on for the team? (Put on)
Will I see eighteen and get to live out my dreams?
I'm startin' to think I think too much
But my mama, she think I don't think enough
But I'm startin' to think that I think too much
But my mama believe I don't think enough
Ayy, ayy
[Verse 1]
Young nigga and I come straight out the bottom
Where the younger niggas pistol poppin'
And that's how we solve all they problems
And it kinda make me wonder, “Will a nigga fall a victim?”
My brother hit for a chicken, I think somebody gon' kill him
I think it's best I give him this choppa while I tote a thirty rounds
I don't pull over for coppers, I know how it's goin' down
Won't shoot me with my hands up
'Cause I'm young, black, and handsome and in this Phantom, tryna get my bands up
Beast while in the streets but I'm still my grandma grandson
No remorse for me so I gotta keep my pants up
Beast while in the streets but I'm still my grandma grandson
No remorse for me so I gotta keep my pants up
[Chorus]
And it's hard to keep your eye on the prize, when you come from the trenches where, niggas, they don't survive (They don't survive)
Will I get a mil' and put on for the team?
Will I see eighteen and get to live out my dreams? (What about my dreams?)
I'm startin' to think I think too much
But my mama, she think I don't think enough
But I'm startin' to think that I think too much
But my mama, she think I don't think enough
Ayy, ayy
[Bridge]
I don't think enough (No, I don't)
I don't think enough (No, I don't)
I don't think enough
[Verse 2]
Sometimes it feel like nobody understand me
I'm tryna get moms a Bentley and get a mansion for granny
I got bigger problems than you, bitch, I'm tryna feed my family
Everybody get mad, they can't get a piece of the candy
Can't make everybody happy, they feel like I'm doin' 'em dirt'
Was sippin' lean and smokin' purp, just tryna calm down my nerves
Everyday somebody else face end up on a shirt
So the shit won't work, I think I need to go to church
Instead, I'm thuggin' and robbin' and hangin' with all of the goblins
Mama said, "Go to school" but I was hangin' in the projects
Can't think in math class 'cause ain't no money in my wallet
Can't even go to lunch 'cause ain't no crunch in my pocket
[Chorus]
And it's hard to keep your eye on the prize (On the prize), when you come from the trenches where, niggas, they don't survive (They don't survive)
Will I get a mil' and put on for the team? (That's for the team)
Will I see eighteen and get to live out my dreams? (My dreams)
I'm startin' to think I think too much
But my mama, she think I don't think enough
But I'm startin' to think that I think too much
But my mama, she think I don't think enough
Ayy
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- Hunger Games (2016)
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- Heart On Ice
- Tombstone
- Street Runner
- Cold December
- Letter from Houston
- Girl of My Dreams
- Poison
- Dark Clouds
- Rags2Riches 2
- Paint the Sky Red
- By Your Side
- Popular Loner
- How Would You Feel
- Rags2Riches
- Green Light
- Dark Conversations
- Close Enough to Hurt
- Sky Priority
- Brace Face
- Heart 4 Sale
- The Greatest
- Bottom Boy Survivor
- Abandoned
- Fuck the World