Chorus:
Mama told me to stay out the streets
Mama told me son you gone die in it
Mama told me that’s the way you made your bed son it’s only right you lie in it
Mama got tears running down her cheek i told mama stop crying
I told mama ima leave the streets alone she said “Leafy stop lying” (x2)

Verse 1: Mama told me to stay out the trenches i’m a menace out here tryna dodge the sins
They tryna kill me seek alotta vengeance
They start hating when they see alotta winning
Back against the wall man ion fear shit
Glizzy on me and i air shit
Streets talking and i hear shit
They say “Leaf the realest” and that’s real shit
Dad told me never fold
I told my mom that i’m a g she said i’m bold
N***as out here telling breaking all the codes
I know what come with all this shit this what i chose
Told my mom that ima live and ima move her i won’t lose her
She keep hearing i’m a shooter
I been through it
I’m the truest
N***as know that if i said it
Ima do it
Mama crying
Don’t cry
I won’t die
Wipe her tears from both sides
So high walking down this dark road
N***as drove past ain’t give me no ride
Been through a lot and i stayed solid
I been at the bottom and i prayed bout it
From the dirt man i was made out it
In the trap house then got slaved out it
She don’t like me in the streets
Shit made me a beast
I got it out the grease
In the trap till it’s time to fall asleep
Swear to god i gave this corner all of me
It was like all or nothing and i gave it all
Running base like i’m playing ball
We gone take the risk that’s the way i saw it
We gone take shit that’s the way i got it
In the streets till i get rich and when i get rich ima still supply the poor
I’m just tryna get my mom up out the trenches so I could tell her not to cry no more
Streets turned me to a cold g
I’m about to move my mom O.T
They know Leafy young O.G
They don’t want me turn into the old me

Chorus:
Mama told me to stay out the streets
Mama told me son you gone die in it
Mama told me that’s the way you made your bed son it’s only right you lie in it
Mama got tears running down her cheek i told mama stop crying
I told mama ima leave the streets alone she said “Leafy stop lying” (x2)

Streets turned me out
Sorry mom i had to get out and get it the hard way
Cops tried to kick me off the corner they say i was out there posted all day
Bow my head
Make my prayer
Hit the trap
Get out there and make my paper
Mom tryna tell me rules to live with her she know that i’m gone break it later
Know the rules in the streets but ian never follow rules that my mom tell me
I know she thinking “damn i tried my best to raise him right but he gone fail me”
Hit the streets when the caine’ come
I’m still in the streets when the rain come
I go harder when the pain come
And ian gone change when the change come
Man i’m trying take this the farthest
I put up with all this
I put in that time go the hardest
Never worry bout the losses because it be bosses it was definitely gone cost us
We know where we wanna go
Gotta get there on our own nobody gone walk us
I put that gun on my waist
These n***as hating but nobody gone park us
Pop on his way home i just want him proud of me
Fell in love with the streets knowing they don’t love back that was foul of me
Think my mom ashamed of my ways
I just wanna see her smile at me
Ian check in with my P.O
The judge prolly gone throw a trial at me
Ain’t no sunshine
Ducking one time
Cause these sticks on me like drumline
This my real life
It wouldn’t feel right if i was just giving y’all punchlines
I put that pain in my work
I know the game in my work
Leafy the same to the dirt
Until i’m laying in a hearse
They know ima grind
Until my name on a shirt

Chorus:
Mama told me to stay out the streets
Mama told me son you gone die in it
Mama told me that’s the way you made your bed son it’s only right you lie in it
Mama got tears running down her cheek i told mama stop crying
I told mama ima leave the streets alone she said “Leafy stop lying” (x2)