Native Son - Gramatik, Leo Napier, Raekwon

Oooh

Oh yeah, oh (yeah)

Talk to me, yo

Let’s hit it

Silently, I’m going tip toe around you

Silently, I walk past your mama’s door

Silently, only trick my absent father

Talk to me as you walked on out the door

Violently, I spent my youth routinely

Violently, innocence was torn away

Violently, I suppressed all I was feelin'

Finally, men took me away

I’ve been steppin' lightly through it all

Ever hearin' anybody’s call, yeah (that's real)

I’ve been steppin' lightly through it all (keep it moving family)

Never hearing anybody’s call, yeah (that shit is official)

All I got to say (they need some food, love)

I got you kid

Yo, nothin' to lose, mentality is beastly

Raised amongst the most ferocious, life wasn’t easy

Slingin' them stones, bangin' 'em close 'cuz nobody cares

Neither did I 'cause my father left me to fry

In this hell of a world with stray bullets to snipe you

Generals look for soldiers with heart so they can stripe you

Dirty dope fiends that’s evil, they got the needle twitch

Veins are polluted dozin' off of that fix

Matilda' nephew Lovell, he turned states on this kingpin kid

A couple of months back

She ain’t seen him since

I guess he caught a bad deal

He grew up to follow the code

But once that code is broken

That’s the end

Good riddance

Them killers, they came and lynched him

They stopped his cash flow

No ifs and or buts, gotta go

He got what he deserved

If it was me I would have clipped his whole family, understand me?

(That's real son)

I’ve been steppin' lightly through it all

Never hearin' anybody’s call, yeah (that's real)

I’ve been steppin' lightly through it all, yeah (smooth as one lane)

Never hearing anybody’s call, yeah

(Ey yo Chef, what’s up my nigga?)

Life is a hussle, the struggle is all real

When there’s nothin' in the kitchen to eat you gotta kill

Am I wrong for that?

My family gotta eat by any means

Which means if I got a spray this machine

And body-bag somthin'

Toe-tag somethin'

Creep thru the hood silently

And spaz on 'em, without a warning

It’s like that, my rank is official

Pearl-handed pistols

I’m serious business

And strictly, who got an issue?

I need that duffle bag action

So I could transform the poverty ways into the main attraction

But yo, life will throw you all kinds of situations

It’s a full time job tryin' to dodge incarceration

Blow somethin' heavy, keep my thoughts circulating

'Cause what I’m contemplating, is really premeditated redrum

Don’t blame my for my actions, blame my environment

That I’m a product of owning my

, you hear me

My innocence was snatched early

So fear don’t live here

All I got is my word and pride

And who swallow that for nothin'?

So take it in blood, end of discussion

Trust me