Been Real - Curren$y

Landed with my duffle in hand

Working out a plan

Hustle not a scam

Struggle of a man

Tryna get to it

Southern supplier of real music

Trill shit evoke…

Landed with my duffle in hand

Working out a plan

A hustle not a scam

This the struggle of a man tryna get to it

Southern supplier of real music

Trill shit evoke feeling when you listen to it

Only trueness if ever I spoke

It was a million dollar quote if ever I wrote

Papered up, but I’m still feeling broke

Ran 100 miles still got plenty more to go

Terrace overlooking the seashore

Left side of my walk-in closet look like the BBC store

Lifestyle goals, this is something you should reach for

High as the stars because we on my nigga

Drug dealer cars we gettin' country club homes we living

Looking like a PGA champion

Crib made out, I’m stoned in the governor’s mansion

Tryna put a little dope in the game

Put some pure in your veins

Help you maintain and stay sane

Sharpen yo knives and carve your own lane

Never let that money make you change

A Gangster gets his money and remains

I ain’t always had that paper but I been real

I ain’t always had that paper but I been real

I ain’t always had that paper but I been real

You don’t know how that shit feel

I ain’t always had that paper but I been real

That ain’t how you niggas live

I ain’t always had that paper but I been real

You don’t know how this shit

I ain’t always had that paper but I been real

That ain’t how you niggas live

Outside the chicken spot in that Starship Rolls

With the kamikaze doors

Discussin the hard from the last score

As the world revolves slow

We livin fast, runnin through that cash

Cause any minute can be our last

So we live it up, pop a bottle lift your glass

This is us, the team that never switched up

To the script, memorized that bitch

Y’all was tryna be too slick

You end up lying in shit

See this a dog eat dog world

You get fleas you get bit

Tryna live free in the streets, might get hit

This is for those who wanna thrive, not just exist

To survive and surpass all the shit

Ferraris and a bad bitch, pillow-top mattress

Daydreamin about paper advancement

Gettin up, gettin to it, really puttin the plan in action

The result is the boss smokin gas, mashin

On the interstate blazin' reminiscin laughin

Smilin at all memories, even the bad ones

Cause at least we had em

Some of us made it, some of us immortalized in murals

Lookin to the pavement

Candles in the spot homie was slayed in

I shed a tear with my top down it was rainin

Unh…

I ain’t always had that paper but I been real

You don’t know how that shit feel

I ain’t always had that paper but I been real

That ain’t how you niggas live

I ain’t always had that paper but I been real

You don’t know how this shit feel

That ain’t how you niggas live