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Monsta/af1ll1ated

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[Verse 1] Came up broke, no lights, no dinner, Rats in the wall playin' tag with a sinner. Pop out drunk, mama ran with the rent, Left a note, not a hug — just a cigarette scent. Had hand-me-down dreams, holes in the sole, Learned how to fight ‘fore I ever knew goals. Never held a strap, but I knew who did, Kept my head down, tongue sharp as a bid. Slept on floors, now I step on stage, Every rhyme born from a low-income cage. This ain’t rap, this survival with style, I spit like a kid who ain’t smiled in a while. I ain't choose pain, it picked my route, And I ran full speed ‘til the ink poured out. Now the beat get ripped like eviction tape, Still hungry like I never got a clean escape. [Instrumental] [Hook] Monsta, monsta, run it with the heat, Broke boy raised, but I don’t take defeat. Snakes in the crib, still I found a way, Now I rhyme like rent due every day. (Yeah!) Monsta, monsta, never had peace, Whole world cold, I just sharpen my teeth. From nothin’ to threat, now I feast on fate, Turn the pain to a plate, let the whole crew ate. [Instrumental] [Verse 2] Used to wear shame like a hoodie in June, Now I’m flamin’ like I kept my childhood in a tomb. Don’t speak pain if you ain’t seen mold, Ain’t heard rooms cry ‘cause the nights too cold. Homies in caskets, names in chalk, Kids grow fangs when the parents don’t talk. I ain’t glorify shit — I’m exposin’ the frame, Just a ghost from the gutter with a pen and a flame. Slept through fights, dreamt of runnin’ away, But the streets got roots in your DNA. So I carved mine out like a surgery gone wrong, Bled over beats ‘til the trauma turned song. Never had role models, had roaches and rent, Now I talk slick like the voice was heaven-sent. I don’t flex for the fake, I just burn through schemes, Still rap like the world want me back in the seams. [Instrumental] [Hook] Monsta, monsta, run it with the heat, Broke boy raised, but I don’t take defeat. Snakes in the crib, still I found a way, Now I rhyme like rent due every day. (Yeah!) Monsta, monsta, never had peace, Whole world cold, I just sharpen my teeth. From nothin’ to threat, now I feast on fate, Turn the pain to a plate, let the whole crew ate. [Instrumental] [Verse 3] Now I’m built from the void, I was shaped by stress, Came up chokin’ on fear, still I say it with chest. I was not supposed to win, I was picked to fall, But I glitch through fate, still answer that call. Grew up fast like the rent got claws, Whole childhood wrapped in invisible laws. Keep quiet, don’t snitch, hide the hurt, Bury your dreams in the back of your shirt. Now I spit like a kid who refused that fate, Like a wolf in the wires with a cracked-out grace. Whole world doubt me — cool, stay blind, I make nightmares art, redefine the grind. No dad, no path, just will and heat, Now every bar stretch like a blade through beats. And I’m proud of the filth, of the fight, of the wrong — ‘Cause I turned it all gold just to write this song. [Instrumental]