[INTRO – SPOKEN, LOW ENERGY]
Yeah…
I don’t talk much.
I just watch.
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[HOOK – DRY CONFIDENCE, REPLAYABLE]
Durag tied, I been focused (yeah)
Late nights, I was chosen
Same pain, different moments
They ain’t see it, I was holdin’
Durag tied, no emotion
Pressure turn boys to soldiers
I ain’t loud, but I’m noticed
Everything earned, I ain’t owe shit
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[VERSE 1 – LIL BABY POCKET, STRAIGHT TALK]
I had to learn how to move in silence
Too many smiles with bad intentions
I was broke with ambition
Now I’m calm with a vision
I don’t flex what I survived
I just show up when it’s time
They confuse quiet with weak
Till the numbers align
I been countin’ my losses
Like lessons, not scars
Every win feel heavier
When it came from the dark
Niqqas switch when it’s motion
But vanish when it’s drought
So I move like I’m dolo
Even when I’m around
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[PRE-HOOK – BUILD, RESTRAINED]
They don’t know what it took
They just see how I look
If they lived what I lived
They’d fold under the book
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[HOOK – REPEAT, BIGGER]
Durag tied, I been focused
Late nights, I was chosen
Same pain, different moments
They ain’t see it, I was holdin’
Durag tied, no emotion
Pressure turn boys to soldiers
I ain’t loud, but I’m noticed
Everything earned, I ain’t owe shit
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[VERSE 2 – DRAKE-TONE, REFLECTIVE & SHARP]
I don’t brag, I remember
Every night I was stressed
Had to smile through the hunger
Still showed up my best
People love you when you up
But don’t answer when you down
So I learned self-respect
I don’t beg, I reroute
I seen love turn conditional
Seen loyalty fade
Now I trust patterns, not words
That’s a grown niqqa trait
I ain’t bitter, just aware
That shit sharpened my mind
Every scar in my story
Still part of my shine
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[BRIDGE – STRIPPED, HONEST]
I don’t chase validation
I validate myself
If it cost me my peace
I put it back on the shelf
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[FINAL HOOK – HALF-TIME INTO FULL]
Durag tied, I’m composed
Too much weight on my soul
I been fightin’ my demons
While they party and pose
Durag tied, I ain’t fold
I survived what they couldn’t
Now my calm feel expensive
‘Cause it came from the struggle
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[OUTRO – QUIET, LOOPABLE]
Yeah…
Still standin’.
Still here.
(beat fades clean)
