Backwoods - Ivy Sole, Anyee Wright

We went from passing a communion plate

To packing purple passion fruit

Ashing on the interstate

Satin smooth how we whip the coupe

Rolling heavy like the troupes

Metal chutes your ladders limping

Pimping in my bloodline

Hellbound hearts in this rotation

Ain’t no stoop, issa porch round here

Ain’t no loot just the stork round here

Ain’t no root for the squares

So the truth be told, I’m the truth

Young Euclid of prose

My homeys say I made it so I second guess depression

Cuz I left my city childless, how I left my city breathless

See Junie had a baby, and Brandon caught a body

Ivy talking college with a dooby riding shotty

My youngins barely graduate but study Smith and Wesson

And I’m blessed to never have to learn that lesson

See I ain’t tryna think muhhfucka

Let me put a lighter to this green muhhfucka

Bury all my problems like a seed muhhfucka

Bury all my problems like a seed muhhfucka

We was in the backwoods rolling on a sweet

Hanging out the window, dumping guts out on the street

They don’t want no smoke from a nigga

They don’t want no smoke from a nigga

We was poking blunts and spinning blocks to park it up

Got a pack of Russian Creams so we can spark it up

Got my favorite BIC back from my folks who had it tucked

If they tried to scheme on me we would have had to run it up

I was uptown with the tools

Trying to crack codes to the game

Trying to make a name for myself

Beating all the odds, they said I would never be great

I’m happy that I never needed help

I could never quit, my niece got a flow of her own

She said I was the reason she gon' win

Now I understand what they mean when they say it’s God-given

I could never give it back that’s a sin

Win, win win, gotta put your mind to the test

See I ain’t really tired, fuck rest

If you ask me if I really want it, I would prove to you yes

Can’t let the grind get you stressed

It took us an hour to get to the gate

Remember the days we could never relate

The team is straight, but faith is key

You could have it too, if I got it in me

We was in the backwoods rolling on a sweet, how unique

Country youngin with no gold up on my teeth, that’s the dream

Get a budget, cop a cutlass, pay off all my mama’s debt

That diploma dont mean shit if I don’t get it for myself

All my cousins used to scrap round my grandma house

All that talking tough boy you better watch yo mouth

My teacher told me please don’t be up a statistic

But squad is just as brilliant there really ain’t no difference

I just made a right when it was no child left behind

Flashing lights up in my rearview but tonight they passed me by

I just made a right when it was no child left behind

Flashing lights up in my rearview but tonight they passed me by

I just made a right when it was no child left behind

Flashing lights up in my rearview but tonight they passed me by

I just made a right when it was no child left behind

Flashing lights up in my rearview but tonight they passed me by

See I ain’t tryna think muhhfucka

Let me put a lighter to this green muhhfucka

Bury all my problems like a seed muhhfucka

Bury all my problems like a seed muhhfucka

We was in the backwoods rolling on a sweet

Hanging out the window, dumping guts out on the street

They don’t want no smoke from a nigga

They don’t want no smoke from a nigga

We was in the backwoods rolling on a sweet

Hanging out the window, dumping guts out on the street

They don’t want no smoke from a nigga

They don’t want no smoke from a nigga