Locksmith - Survival lyrics

I'm taking pleasure in watching
You niggas sit
On the sidelines and bitch about me
Spit your disses in dissidence
And then disavow me
This allows me to disembowel you
Insist to crowd me
Leave you fast asleep in a deep
Canal with the fish and algae
This is how we survived
Richmond in his surroundings
In his housing complex
Mothers wept from the pistols touting
It's good for grounding, it kept me humble
Away from trouble
Found a subtle way to accept struggle
I'ma need some counseling
I'ma need some ousting, I'm cleaning house
Getting rid of these nonproductive
Destructive people that seem to cloud me
But as clear as my vision is now
I'ma revisit these trials and
Learn from the fake
Folks that I knew would doubt me
I've been through adversity
Never diverted me
Nothing is shaking my confidence
I did it with certainty
Never insertin' myself for the
Purpose of compliments
When mother was nursing me
Never occurred to be I would
Be nothing but dominant
I took the lessons I learned as a child and
Founded a way when I came into prominence
Anything that broke me only
Made my edges sharper
Anyone provokes me knows my
Only weapon's karma try to listen closely
Witness as the stress can garner
Jewel after jewel
My profession's the protective armor
I battled my way through the ranks and I'm
Thankful and grateful for what it did
I took on the pressure, repetitive hurdles
I hustled when others hid
I used to think money and stardom would
Follow me just 'cause I wanted it
Had to work harder and martyr
My ego and harvest
The hardship I had as a younger kid
I don't pay along, get along
Got a long resume, come test me
Niggas don't admit when they wrong, so
They roam on the net unchecked, see
The more that you babble
The more you unravel
You wanna shoot deep but got
Called for a travel
You would just rather go home
With your ball than
Learn from the fall and shake off the gravel
Look at the maneuvers I been doing
I'm renewing i've been moving at a new speed
Contradicting everything that you're picking
In your news feed
You don't take a liking unrequited
So you lose sleep
I don't get offended but defend
It when I do see
There is not an independent artist
That can move me
Neither on a label that is able to disable
What I'm giving to the public
You can snub it but I choose me
Even when it's raining
You can feel the friction
Flowers come far and few
Between like police convictions
If you from Richmond
You've been grinding under these conditions
This is just the start 'til I seize position
Feel me?