[Intro]

Used to be a dreamer

But you know I've found

[Verse 1]

Uh, my mama used to pray that she'd see me in Yale

It's fucked up she gotta see me in jail

On a visit with Lil Papi, it hurt even though I seemed to be well

They got a smoker with a key to my cell, damn

And even worse, my judge Black, don't wanna see me do well

It's either that or Black people for sale

Gave me two to four years like, "Fuck your life, meet me in hell"

And let it burn like Lucifer, you look even stupider

Tryna impress them people in power who power abusin' us

For forty-four dollars an hour, you coward, they usin' ya

Was it self-hate that made you send me upstate?

This where the so-called "real niggas" sweeping up for cupcakes

And at your phone time, if you ain't got no money, you ain't online

Can't call your son, call your daughter just to wish 'em on prom

Oh God, don't let them streets get a hold of 'em

Your daughter fuckin' now, it's gon' be a cold summer

Your son trappin' and your homie givin' O's to him

And if he fuck that paper up, he puttin' holes through him

And you just wanna make it home so you can show it to him

And them people ain't finna give no parole to ya, they want blood

We all hangin' with a noose on our neck

My celly mom just died, he wanna use my collect

And he won't make it to the wake unless he give 'em a check

We still niggas, though, what you expect?

[Chorus]

I just won

I was on the corner with the reaper

And they got us warring for our freedom

Seen my brother blood on the pavement

How you wake up in the mornin' feelin' evil?

Huh, trauma

When them drugs got a hold of your mama

And the judge got a hold on your father

Go to school, bullet holes in the locker

[Verse 2]

Ain't no PTSDs, them drugs keep it at ease

They shot that boy twenty times when they could've told him just freeze

Could've put him in a cop car, but they let him just bleed

"The ambulance, they coming, baby, just breathe"

That's what the old lady said when she screamed

This nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th

And in the Thirteenth Amendment, it don't say that we kings

It say that we legally slaves if we go to the bing

They told Kaep', "Stand up, you wanna play for a team"

And all his teammates ain't sayin' a thing (Stay woke)

If you don't stand for nothing, you gon' fall for something

And in the '60s, if you kneeled, you'd probably be killed

But they don't kill you now, they just take it out of your deal

Kill your account, look where money get spilled, check it

And they don't kill you now, they just take it out of your deal

Kill your account, look where money get spilled

[Chorus]

I just won

I was on the corner with the reaper

And they got us warring for our freedom

Seen my brother blood on the pavement

How you wake up in the mornin' feelin' evil?

Huh, trauma

When them drugs got a hold of your mama

And the judge got a hold on your father

Go to school, bullet holes in the locker (Yeah, uh)

[Verse 3]

How many times you send me to jail to know that I won't fail?

Invisible shackles on a king 'cause, shit, I'm on bail

I went from sellin' out arenas, now, shit, I'm on sale

Them cold nights startin' to feel like hell, uh

Watchin' a Black woman take my freedom

Almost made me hate my people

When they label you felon, it's like they tellin' you they not equal

Eleven years goin' to court knowin' they might keep you'll drive you crazy

Twenty-three hours in a cell, somebody save me

I'm on a jail call tryna explain it to my baby

I gotta do the calendar twice and that's a maybe

Trauma

[Chorus]

I just won

I was on the corner with the reaper

And they got us warring for our freedom

Seen my brother blood on the pavement

How you wake up in the mornin' feelin' evil?

Huh, trauma

When them drugs got a hold of your mama

And the judge got a hold on your father

Go to school, bullet holes in the locker

Huh, trauma