This is the intro for the article. Aim for 200 to 600 words.
1. Everybody wanna shine. Nobody wanna grind.
2. Once you start making money, everyone starts becoming your friend.
3. I’m a product of my environment. I grew up in the projects, I’m a project baby. All the project babies can relate to what I say, ‘cause they’re on the same thing.
4. Adults think it’s disrespectful when you don’t let them disrespect you.
5. I put my Hublot on rocks. I put Moscato on rocks.
6. Life is a test and everyday we got so much fail.
7. While we walking, while we breathing, we dying… I be really feeling like, even though we live to die, some people be dying to live.
8. Cause a lot of these niggas out here envy me. It ain’t no ho in the clique.
9. You measure a man on how tall he stands when his world starts to fall.
10. I was uploading on YouTube and stuff, and they were liking it or whatever. I just kept elevating and elevating. I had little setbacks, but I used them as stepping stones.
11. I just always be myself no matter who I’m around.
12. Everybody say I give them Pac vibes. I ain’t gonna lie: I ain’t really grow up on Pac, but I kinda see it – just off everything I do, though.
13. I just wanna live a blessed life. Whatever comes with it, you know? And whoever’s supporting me, I appreciate it.
14. I feel like sometimes when n*ggas like I am going through—, Y’all be entertained.
15. I just know that I’mma do something in life. I’mma do something productive.
16. When I love I love too deep, I knew but I just didn’t wanna accept that you was getting tired of me and den you left just like you said you wouldn’t.
17. In the darkest hours I gain sight.
18. I just hope to continue to be blessed. Elevate to something bigger. Somebody bigger. Somebody better.
19. People just see the shine. They don’t see the grind, the bags under my eyes. It was a lot of grinding, setbacks… I ain’t finna let nothing stop me. Wherever I stop at, I already know who I am.
20. That loyalty more valuable than gold.
21. Ain’t nothin’ worse than death. I don’t see that. I just walk around, I got big wings . . . Why even let me come home?
22. I put my heart in my lyrics. I gave it all I could give.
23. But I feel like I have enough knowledge to get me by in life. Obviously, I don’t know everything, but I feel like I have enough knowledge to get me through.
24. Royalty can’t buy loyalty.
25. Sipping on Hennessy, it got me bending sideways. Everything on me drippin’, you ngs can’t ride the wave.
26. Ain’t begging nobody to be in my life, the real gone ride, the fake will divide.
27. I got the type of voice where I can hit a tone if I want, but I ain’t trying to be Fetty Wap or Future.
28. I’m better than Tupac and Biggie. I say that so now you know where my head at.
29. I didn’t just freestyle it. At the end, it’s about bread.
30. So when I started rapping and all that I just said f**k it, I’m gonna be Kodak Black. Everything turned out the right way.
31. I have a huge drive. I was born with nothing. So I was always brought up like: go get it. No matter what. Even if it’s scoping and poking. Rapping and trapping. You know, I did it. I switched my whole grind up from doing that, from scoping and poking, to just getting in a booth and just doing my thing.
32. I will be outside with the glizzy. Toting that fire, I will be tripping.
33. Mannnnnnnnnn, I already been doing me, I already been progressing by myself.
34. See, you gotta go against all odds, you know? Boss your life up.
35. I knew I was going to be slugged up, my whole mouth gold.
36. I just be doing me. I don’t listen to no rappers, but if it’s a good song I’ll listen to it. But, I don’t really look up to nobody.
37. All us got a due date. All us got a death sentence. One day, we gonna die.
38. Lookin’ like I still do fraud. Flyin’ private jet with the rod. This that Z shit, this that Z shit (This that Z shit)
39. Readin’ through my third eye ’cause I got tunnel vision. Had to open my mind, then I opened a Benz.
40. Cause a lot of these ngs out here envy me. It ain’t no ho in the clique.
41. I love African American women, but I just don’t like my skin complexion.
42. We’re cut from the same cloth, you feel me? We going through the same struggle and all that sh*t. So, they gonna feel me. And all the other people, they just like what I’m saying, they just like my drive.