[Intro:]
yeah this next joint right here...
is dedicated to all my ^!$$%s that I love

all the ^!$$%s that held it down with me through the whole %#@!
from the beginning of the fort, to the now current day of the fort
from the beginning and the birth of this whole %#@!

to the now success of this whole %#@!
and all my peoples that be holdin it down for their peoples
ridin with them through thick and thin, love y'all ^!$$%s

peep it

[CHORUS x2:]

1, 2
Everytime I sit and take a look at how we grew so much my ^!$$%s
1, 2

All the things I do, you know I will hold my flags for you my ^!$$%s

[verse 1]

now, this how the %#@! all started
was like doctors of ? I was being conceived kinda !@$!ed
like, and 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

ayo, yo, 1, 2
while they was wildin and %#@!
they couldn't even find my pulse, sonogram on the frisk

so, they tried a natural birth, but had to stop production
baby stuck all up in the womb, another malfunction
1, 2

and now the doctors discover
they had to cut this lady's gut, and 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'mon, now, 1, 2
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 %#@!, that type %#@! be buggin me out cuz...
y'know ^!$$%s, ^!$$% look back
to them days when you know %#@! is kinda ill like y'knawmean?

^!$$%, ^!$$%s like fall out, y'knawmean?
mother$#&@ers is, ^!$$%s live long enough to look back and %#@! and
laugh and %#@!, y'knawmean?


[verse 2]
young and learnin %#@! that started is thick

started inquiring alot, started using my dick
like I knew it all but I wasn't really knowin and %#@!
buggin when my pubic hairs started growin and %#@!

now hold up, a young ^!$$% now a couple years pass
searchin desperate to experience my first piece of $$#
now, gettin 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
^!$$% only twelve so why he lookin like he nineteen?

1, 2
the fast life baby, young with an old soul
from the past life baby

a young ^!$$% wanted things and wanted money quick
ambitious on the Amtrak, wit a quarter brick
my ^!$$%, 1, 2

it got hot in the streets
my ^!$$% campaign the cops who started walkin the beat, my ^!$$%
trouble causin too much problems just me and my brother

made mommy a grandma and shacked up with my babymother
now it a seed, I was always ready to clap %#@!
strugglin, so then I start $#&@in 'round with this rap %#@!

moved to Long Island and got up with a few ^!$$%s
believin we could show the world we was the Leaders Of the New ^!$$%s
a crew of ^!$$%s that was hot like an infirmary

blazin til they started actin like (*##$es internally
so now, Flipmode is how we own it fo' sho
tried to $#&@ with ^!$$%s but I couldn't do it no more
fo rilla, 1, 2
and then I got with some ^!$$%s

always wit it to multiply the gross and double the figgas
and then I, hit with bombs and hold a stack in my palms
whippin Bentleys, floss icy %#@! and take care of moms
give the local little old man a job as my chaeuffeur
hold it down for all my ^!$$%s til the movement is over

it's kinda beautiful

[CHORUS repeats to end]

[over chorus]

yeah, y'knawmean?
how we have acquired so much
where we can look back and, and actually laugh and lavish
in the, in the, in the moment
as we prime in life

look at how we, we struggled all this way and went through the bull%#@!
mother$#&@in, little obstacles
situations they try to set up for ^!$$%s to $#&@in fall off
and lose they hard earned %#@!, y'knowmean?
I holds it down for my ^!$$%s though
give my last to my ^!$$%s

all the ^!$$%s that was wit me through the whole %#@!
love y'all ^!$$%s, word
my Flipmode ^!$$%s, man