Hotbox Chronicles

Bro just tell it like it's true
If it's true, then just tell it like it's true

I'm going to write a story like I'm Oda
Can't talk to me now my jewellery on super-soaker
Now I'm getting older, dreads thick like I'm Sosa
And I did it for the fam I hope they love me when it's over
I'm going to write a story like I'm Oda
Can't talk to me now my jewellery on super-soaker
Now I'm getting older, dreads thick like I'm Sosa
And I did it for the fam I hope they love me when it's over

What these niggas know about the hotbox?
We was really out here in the cold
Got our shit together now we up and lo behold
Pray to God he never let the wock stop
Block hot, we was kids fresh up in the city,
Didn't really know much,
How i nearly got evicted in my fucking first month?
I was looking up to God like; "what i do man? please forgive me"
You could ask the ones that's with me, really seen it get bad
That's why I call them my brothers, no it's not 'cause we related
It's 'cause they chose to have my back when no one knew that i would make it
Still remember cold nights when we was booling up in Bath

Ayy, when we was booling up in Bath

Told my mama she the greatest
You could never understand
How much i done seen this woman sacrifice
She stronger than me, I won't debate it
She the one taught me to be a man
And for that I could never pay her back in this life
Smoking out in public on that civil disobedience
Can't blame us I guess we all just products of experience
Niggas know I'm fire, call my pen arson
When i was ten, mama had me reading Ben Carson, I swear

I'm going to write a story like I'm Oda
Can't talk to me now my jewellery on super-soaker
Now I'm getting older, dreads thick like I'm Sosa
And I did it for the fam I hope they love me when it's over
I'm going to write a story like I'm Oda
Can't talk to me now my jewellery on super-soaker
Now I'm getting older, dreads thick like I'm Sosa
And I did it for the fam I hope they love me when it's over
what's up?
I'm going to write a story like I'm Oda
Can't talk to me now my jewellery on super-soaker
Now I'm getting older, dreads thick like I'm Sosa
And I did it for the fam I hope they love me when it's over

Had to think about, what's important to me
Not a white collar nigga, shit that's boring to me
And I don't let nobody do my pouring for me
Never seen a drought, don't mean nothing to me

Niggas really made it out, shit it's funny to me
Funny to see, niggas that was hating still broke
While me and all my niggas laced in million dollar rope
Call me Dera young Joseph, many colours with the coat
But, all that shit's for show, i'm still battling anxiety
I don't like the way that we behave as a society
You see something wrong and just act like it's okay
Anything can run, long as you can go about your day
A lot of niggas don't care, not at all and i get it
But, we can all do better and you know this
Watching niggas pockets that shit bogus
Tell a nigga get a job, you ever really been homeless
I been booted up like every other fucking second if you noticed
Proficient with the leaf like imma Lotus
Really went to college I could tell you niggas more
But it's the same old story man, rich fucks poor
Call me Michael Scott, 'cause my dreams are way bigger than just paper
Tell my baby not to worry and my mom i'm being safer
And I'm going to buy another board, cuz i'm still trying to be a skater
That's probably my hubris, swear i'm made for something greater

I can't help it mama named me destiny
I remember trying to tell my people to invest in me
I was cooking they just didn't know i had the recipe
Now I got these niggas looking madder than Yosemite, damn

And big Sam yeah that's my brother, we don't talk like we should
Miss my nigga Chuka, smoking hookahs 'fore the woods
I ain't seen them in a minute so I'm hoping that they good
I'm just praying my intentions never get misunderstood, yeah