The City - Homeward Bound

Grew up in the city, never had much

Mama taught us love

And so we have more than enough

But the city done changed me

From a good child, to a bad one

Caught up

I bring it right back, hold up

You see, I moved to the city as a kid

With a pocket full of heaven and some Martin Luther King

Daddy used to drag us to church like straight off at the mission

Hymns to forgive, gospel, listen

buggin', big brother on the scope

Lined up in the crosshairs, welcome to the big smoke

Finished year 7, graduated to them high hopes

East side fam got me

uh, I can make you bump, though

On the wire hangin' like sneakers, dope

Fast cars wrap telephone poles

Shout out to the ones that we never gettin' back

Press put my name on the map, ayo, I got what you need,

Spread my wings, fam, lookin' at the stars

In the night sky buggin' on the city skyline

Damn, I forgot where I came from

Grew up in the city, never had much

Mama taught us love

And so we have more than enough

But the city done changed me

From a good child, to a bad one

Caught up

I bring it right back came from, hold up

Post up with a little bit of cracks in the

I rose through the basement, graduation

I’m runnin' on that black time never make class, fam

Learnin' how to act right

Hangin' with some lost souls, puffin' on a

Trips up north just to get my money nice

See I never f-in' with a scheme of a white European

So why the fuck would I wanna try and be a passin'

I remember clearly the moment

A blunt to the head focus, lose a cap

Of the in the weekdays

Trippin' in the hallways, caught up with a court case

Told about my grandma, she black all day

Made me what I am, fam, that’s straight

So fuck anybody tryna front

Talk about relocate where you came to the days where I

Grew up in the city, never had much

Mama taught us love

And so we have more than enough

But the city done changed me

From a good child

I’m caught up

I bring it right back, hold up (Hold up)

Let me pave my way like veins

Through the city where the roads take us, for the record

In the hallways where you aspired to put your name up

The kingdom come, cuz, majestic as fuck

stars in the night sky, maybe then

You can get my name right, city on my back now

Globe on my heart, cosmos on the

Let ‘em know where I came from,

Grew up in the city, never had much