Deep Reverence lyrics

[Intro: Nipsey Hussle]

Hit-Boy

G. Ry got me

Look

[Verse 1: Nipsey Hussle]

Fuck rap, I'm a street legend, block love me with a deep reverence

I was birthed in a C-section

Hella cops and police presence

We got opps so we keep weapons, we on y'all block while y'all eat breakfast

A lot of shots, we broke street records

Watch how you talk, I got reflexes, watchin' your cheap necklace

Then we slide out the East exit

But every time we get to fuckin' niggas up, TMZ catch it

Y'all still learnin' street lessons?

From the mastermind, first you master grind, then your team catch it

This time it’s for the money, I don't need credit

And I'm the don 'cause the streets said it, look

[Chorus: Nipsey Hussle, Big Sean & Both]

Fuck rap, I'm a street legend

And I'm the don 'cause the streets said it

Block love me with a deep reverence (Yeah, woah)

And I'm the don 'cause the streets said it (Yeah)

[Verse 2: Big Sean]

And I got pressure on me

Seven days a week, it's game seven on me

Life'll test you out, you live through that, that's testimony

Givin' them hell, but how in the hell I got all these blessings on me?

Most of the girls I know addicted to social media

All the time they put in, they could've wrote encyclopedias

Mama said it only takes one time to fuck up your whole Wikipedia

And as your son, I can see the type of light that you see me in

After what happened to Nipsey, I reached out to Kendrick

It wasn't even no real issues there to begin with

Lack of communication and wrong information

From people fueled by their ego, it's like mixin' flames with diesel

Energy crazy, I realized that it's a two-way street

What's comin' is goin', if it don't give you more, it drains you

Should be a billionaire based on the time off I'm not takin'

Probably why the shit with me get crazy and we lost a baby

And everybody around me think I'm the one

But we all just one of ones, and I'm walkin' out the crib

They ask me where I'm goin', I told them, "I'm going on another ten-year run"

Niggas is bangin' over blocks that they don't own, thinkin' that's home

Boy, you think that's where you from? You don't really know where you from

You don't how deep your roots is or what your ancestors had done

So, God bless all of the sons and daughters

Who knew they history so they knew where to take it farther

And all the ones that stuck with me like good barbers

Lookin' at my life story, God's a good author

Never was the loudest in the room, we move like ninjas

And if it cost your peace of mind, it might be too expensive

So I can't give you everything that you want from me for free though

Get you one shot in life, you might not be able to reload

So advanced, I need all my advances

Bro hit me up for cash like we didn't have the same chances

My dad hit me up like, "Why I don't live in a mansion?"

I'm tryna focus, but baby girl keep holdin' my mind for ransom

And that ain't how it supposed to be, this man Hov got to a B

And his name Shawn too, I almost felt like it was me

Damn, I realized all my setbacks were inside of me

In high school, I learned chemistry, biology

But not how to cope with anxiety

Or how I could feel like I'm by myself on an island

With depression on all sides of me (Damn)

With a Glock seventeen right on the side of me (Hol' up)

Look, I ain't think I had the thought of suicide in me

Until life showed me all these different sides of me

Too many times I thought the reaper was outside for me (Ooh)

And how the fuck it's people that never met me that hate me?

I wonder if they understand that I meditate daily

And feel like my life purpose is to give inspiration

Despite the hit songs that there's just no escapin'

That I take care of my family and beat the odds that were deadly

You hate that, that just reflects your lack of succession, bless 'em

If it ain't Nipsey blue, it's Detroit blue

This that Detroit 2, I'm bringin' it back to my hood like d-boys do

Gone (Gone)

[Outro: Nipsey Hussle & Comic J Will]

So, the collaboration though, with Nipsey and who?

Aw man, I'd probably say Payroll, eh, or Tee Grizzley

Me and Big Sean talked about doin' somethin' recently, too

So, you know, all of them, I'ma, I'ma tap in with all of Detroit

Fuck rap, I'm a street legend

Block love me with a deep reverence

• Artist:Big Sean
• Album:Detroit 2 (2020)