Lyrics:

[Hook]

Everybody flexin’ like they never had less (had less)
But hunger wrote the bars, not the Rolex (Rolex)
Empty fridge, cold breath on the steps
That’s the reason we the coldest yet

Everybody flexin’ like they never had less
But hunger wrote the bars, not the Rolex
Don’t polish scars, don’t rewrite checks
That broke kid still inside my chest

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[Verse 1]

Hand-me-downs with the cuffs rolled up
Ketchup sandwiches, pray that’s enough
Mama stretch dollars like elastic bands
Pride real high but the cupboard bland

School pictures in the same two fits
Haircut crooked but I stood legit
They was laughin’, I was memorizing
Every room I’d walk in disguising

How it feel when the lights cut off
When the rent man knock and you talk real soft
When the heat broke down in December frost
And you learn real fast what survival costs

I ain’t glamorizing nothin’ — I’m confessin’
Pressure built the weapon I’m possessin’
Every verse got a little depression
Turned pain into rhythm progression

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[Hook]

Everybody flexin’ like they never had less (had less)
But hunger wrote the bars, not the Rolex (Rolex)
Empty fridge, cold breath on the steps
That’s the reason we the coldest yet

Everybody flexin’ like they never had less
But hunger wrote the bars, not the Rolex
Don’t polish scars, don’t rewrite checks
That broke kid still inside my chest

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[Verse 2]

Now I got a little somethin’ in the bank
Still countin’ pennies at the fillin’ station tank
Still double check receipts at the store
Still feel broke when I walk through a door

Friends switched lanes, some switched states
Some switched lives, some sealed they fate
Some got rich and forgot the dirt
Some got stuck in the same old hurt

I ain’t mad — I just know the math
When you grow from scratch, you remember that
Every dollar feel like it could vanish
Every win still taste a little panicked

Success don’t cancel where you from
It just add a little weight to the sum
I smile now but I won’t forget
I ain’t escaped that silhouette

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[Bridge]

You can’t Photoshop hunger
Can’t filter out nights
Can’t delete the version of you
That learned how to fight

You don’t erase the basement
You build from the floor
And if you ever had less
You never scared anymore

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[Hook]

Everybody flexin’ like they never had less (had less)
But hunger wrote the bars, not the Rolex (Rolex)
Empty fridge, cold breath on the steps
That’s the reason we the coldest yet

Everybody flexin’ like they never had less
But hunger wrote the bars, not the Rolex
Don’t polish scars, don’t rewrite checks
That broke kid still inside my chest