Signed

intro (soft piano, distant siren)

Yeah — huh, yeah
Street signed
Ayy, yeah


chorus (melodic, haunting)

I’m signed to the streets, my name inked in the pavement (yeah)

Can’t sign no contract, that’s loyalty and payment

Diamonds on my neck but I’m feelin’ the basement

Signed to the streets, heart froze in the basement (huh)

Signed to the streets, they know me by my Crip name 

Took the pain, made it richer — turned it into pavement (turned it into pavement)

Signed to the streets, can’t trade it for arrangements

Stuck with the code, yeah, I’m livin’ with engravements


verse 1

Came up from corners where the lights flicker low

Mama used to pray on the stoop where
The 4,5,6 roll 

Pinned a picture to the wall of the ones we couldn’t save

Every dollar that I stack got a name on the grave

Everybody want the drip, they don’t want the cold nights

They don’t want the funerals, the cold bags, the low lights

Promised to the block, that promise ain’t erased

A thousand nights of hustle, a thousand prayers I made


pre-chorus

Flashin’ on the 'gram, but I still see the past

Friends I lost in the crossfire, shadows in the glass


chorus

I’m signed to the streets, my name inked in the pavement (aye)

Can’t sign no contract, that’s loyalty and payment

Diamonds on my neck but I’m feelin’ the basement

Signed to the streets, heart froze in the basement

Signed to the streets, they know me by my Crip name 

Took the pain, made it richer — turned it into pavement

Signed to the streets, can’t trade it for arrangements

Stuck with the code, yeah, I’m livin’ with engravements


verse 2

Pull up, window down, city talkin’ real slow

Radio play my voice, but I still hear the stoop flow

Young ones lookin’ up, I gotta show a better way

But the block still call my name when the night sway

Used to sleep with a chip on my shoulder and a rifle on the floor
On Crip 

Now it’s briefcases and fur coats, but my soul at war

Told the opps “keep talkin’” — sympathy don’t exist

Only loyalty and silence, and a gun on the hip


bridge (quiet, confessional)

I pray for the ones gone, I pray for the ones stayin’

Can’t let the fame blur the lines of where I’m pavin’

Got a frown on the money, a scar on my heart

No matter how high I fly, the ground pullin’ hard


breakdown (sparse, percussion)

Signed, signed, signed — yeah, signed to the streets

Promises and scars, every name on repeat

Signed, signed, signed — yeah, signed to the streets

Took the loss, made a lesson, now the whole block eat


chorus (bigger, voices layered)

I’m signed to the streets, my name inked in the pavement (name inked)

Can’t sign no contract, that’s loyalty and payment (loyalty)

Diamonds on my neck but I’m feelin’ the basement (feel it)

Signed to the streets, heart froze in the basement (heart froze)

Signed to the streets, they know me by my Crip name (by my Crip name)

Took the pain, made it richer — turned it into pavement
Porque music 
See you when I see you 
Otro

melodic, street-honest, emotionally raw, male