Holidaze - Billy Woods

Back of the bus, I-95, going to meet

The man.

Home for the holidays, frankincense

And haze for the fam

Not quite back in the days, trying to keep the brother ways

Niggas on the lamb

Crime pays and takes back with the other hand

He got smoked, goddamn

I’d seen this brother still with butters

Pushing a land, eating Fudd ruckus, getting

Fat.

Big rims where he move

Got a big gat.

Dime broads, small

Waist, big rack, got it like that

Told me how a couple cats got kidnapped

Duck-taped and electrocuted ‘til they

Gave up the stacks, getting straight jacked

Gary got deported and he ain’t coming back

So if you see me pushing, that’s my moms

And if you see me with the dug, that’s the bomb

And if you see me around, I ain’t

Staying long.

Y’all stay strong

Got love from old co'.

I ain’t gonna

Lie—a lot of niggas I used to fuck with though

Can’t fuck with no mo'

Down here, they get jelly over dro, feel me

Yo?

We all po

Gliding in the Caddy with Maggie, pass

Spots where I used to cop baggies

A lot of peoples doing badly and got

That swing.

Life straight

Clipped their wings.

Old cus-

-tees paging for that thing

Nah, man.

I’m on vacation

This ain’t the old days, Ziplocs in

The basement, a nigga really trying to be

Patient

So if you see me

Pushing, that’s my moms

And if you see me with the dug, that’s the bomb

But if you see me ‘round here

I ain’t staying long

Y’all stay strong

Dropped by to see Shelly.

Homegirl got a full

Belly—like she ain’t got mouths to feed already

What can you say?

Once they’re here

It’s to stay.

Show ‘em love anyway and just

Pray.

For what it’s worth, it’s still love

In every birth, but I can’t lie.

Shelly

Looking cursed, work her fingers to the bone

So them kids grow up alone.

Baby

Father done ‘em wrong, slapped her in front

The kids, and that’s my nigga, you dig?

Something real bad in the air

Like gunpowder.

To all

My peoples under God towers

All the motherfuckers getting six dollars

An hour, I’m going to meet the man

January flowers

So if you see me pushing

That’s my moms, and if you see me with weight

That’s on the arm, and if

You see me with a gun, you know what went wrong

Y’all stay strong