[Verse 1]
Red dirt on my Nikes
Yellow tape where the kids used to play
Mama say pray ‘fore I leave
‘Cause she know half my dawgs in the grave
Route 10, blue lights in the rearview
Judge lookin’ at my skin like a preview
Twelve ask questions I ain’t never gon’ answer
I learned math from a scale, not a teacher
Section 8 stove heatin’ up ramen
But the plug got a play, so I’m joggin’
Backroad, backwood, hoodie in August
Whole block hot and the news keep talkin’
[Chorus]
We just trappin’ in Baton Rouge
Tryna duck that headline news
Every night somebody lose
But I can’t let ‘em write my tomb
I’m just trappin’ in Baton Rouge (yeah)
Tryna make it out this zoo
Bills due, rent past due
What you expect a youngin’ to do?
[Verse 2]
Grandma house smell like bleach and Black&Milds
Bible on the table but the steel close by
Shotgun sound, everybody hit the ground
Then we right back up, that’s a regular night
High school hallway full of RIP shirts
Candles on the curb, mama holdin’ in hurt
Preacher say “change,” but the lights might cut
So I slip one pack in my left jean cuff
Wrong side of the levee get heavy
Lil bro out here tote big weapons
Ain’t proud of the path but it’s all that we had
Either clock in or clock in the bag
[Chorus]
We just trappin’ in Baton Rouge
Tryna duck that headline news
Every night somebody lose
But I can’t let ‘em write my tomb
I’m just trappin’ in Baton Rouge (woah)
Tryna make it out this zoo
Bills due, rent past due
What you expect a youngin’ to do?
[Bridge]
Front porch talk, “who got hit?”
Another name on a block we miss
If this life just pickin’ who quit
I’ma grip this dream, not slip
‘Cause I seen chains on my cousin wrists
Seen white sheets, seen body lists
If the world don’t care ‘bout kids like this
Then the block my job ‘til I flip that script
[Chorus]
We just trappin’ in Baton Rouge
Tryna duck that headline news
Every night somebody lose
But I can’t let ‘em write my tomb
I’m just trappin’ in Baton Rouge (yeah)
Tryna make it out this zoo
If they won’t give us nothin’ new
We gon’ grind ‘til we break on through