Look
I'm from a city where the industry done vanished
You ride the east side or you can pull up on tu casa and hear women speaking Spanish
There's dirty politicians even mayors with some scandals
And the murder rate is high
That's why there's faces with some candles
Every other block
There's memorials where someone's son was shot
But we desensitized so they gentrify the same fucking spots
They building condominiums on murder scenes
Probably pouring the cement and charged rent before the blood get clean
They spending money on cops and mass incarceration
Cuz we got budgets for punishment but not education
There's heroin in prescriptions and medication
But big pharma and the homies that trapped
Got different destinations
One is in the federal reserve
The others in the feds
One already rich
The other did some shit to get ahead
Cuz life is different with a different address
But nothings stopping us from getting them checks
Nah

The city never loved us
We was out there grinding trying to get up out the gutter
We was only interested in shining with our brothers
The city never loved us
I know the city never loved us
We was out there grinding trying to get up out the gutters
We the products of the double shifts and single mothers
We know the city never loved us

Yeah
We used to be hooping and acting stupid up at Cobbs Hill
While I was grinding on them curbs where them drug addicts would buy pills
That shit was like a wasteland
They'll get you for your Space Jams
And tuck the strap back in their jeans on Supreme waist bands
Mamis on the track half naked
But she gonna up and freeze
She know you trick in the winter you still need Summers Eve
Cuz being a fiend is expensive so ain't no love free
Plus she need the funds to buy bundles like she was copping weave
I got some gs that
Hustled for them Pateks
But they couldn't read a watch they only fucked with them for status
The type of motherfuckers left my cousin with a habit
He was functional
Up until he wasn't
Then he started scamming
Where public servants funnel money to the private sector
And rappers say they're the truth
But they fail the lie detector
If you ain't grinding I cannot respect it
You wanna thrive it take a lot of effort
Yeah

The city never loved us
We was out there grinding trying to get up out the gutter
We was only interested in shining with our brothers
The city never loved us
I know the city never loved us
We was out there grinding trying to get up out the gutters
We the products of the double shifts and single mothers
We know the city never loved us

Look
I heard these streets was paper promises they all lied
I heard that karma is a bitch and plus her walls dry
I watch them homies jump off that porch and lose their leash and watch em all die
Living up in this city will leave you mortified immortalized
Unorganized and all this goofy shit is getting normalized
Not deprived from the realest shit - look who you dealing with
Niggas will rob their own day ones then hit the dealership
Hitting houses in rich neighborhoods thats called a business trip
Yeah the city never loved us
A cold heart it will leave your flesh cold and under covers
The coroner know us all too well
Know them walls too well
We know these scars too well
We know them bars too well
Making progress yeah its hard to tell
See my momma still stuck on bottle
Them homies is pushing throttles
And bitches is still in thotto
The enemy still a rival
The money is still our idol
We selfish we need a bible"