[Intro] Yeah… Welcome to the concrete where logic dies slow. [Verse 1] I grew up where the screws loose, news never come through Blue lights, night fights, pipe dreams and gun fumes Young kid, tongue slick, one slip and it’s done quick Lunchroom to a courtroom life flipped on some dumb shit Block raised me crooked, look at the outcome Street taught survival, how to outlast, outrun Outcast with a mouth full of bad luck Fast bucks never last, now I’m stuck with a past stuck Identical buildings, cynical children Minimal feelings, criminals buildin’ Invisible ceilings, miserable livin’ Tryna break out but the system won’t listen Hold up reload all the pain Brain full of static, throat full of rage Every joke that I crack got a rope in the phrase Laugh now, black out, choke on the rage One spark, whole block turn war zone One call, ten more at your door no warning Uncles, cousins, brothers all swarmin’ Concrete jungle where the weak get torn in Where a life’s just a mark and a name on a shirt And a kid learns pain ‘fore he learns what it’s worth [Hook] Stand up out the cracks, out the dirt From the pain, from the hustle, from the hurt Let ‘em hear, let ‘em feel every word We don’t whisper we erupt, we disturb Stand up yeah we louder than the silence From the bottom where the trauma turns to violence We don’t break, we don’t fold, we don’t swerve From the concrete yeah we rise from the worst [Verse 2] Mama barely holding on, selling pieces of pride Just to keep the lights on, keep the demons outside Big bro with a plan and a piece on his side Little bro gone too soon now he lives in my mind Yeah my humor’s dark, it’s a cut, it’s a scar Every bar like a blade, every line leaves a mark If I lose it, I’m crazy, if I use it, I’m smart So I turn it to art while I’m falling apart Same story, new block, same pain, same plot Everybody chasing something that they never got Tryna fill what is missing but the hole never stops So the cycle just spins and the pressure just pops They watch every move, every step, every breath One slip, then they kick in your door like a test Life flipped in a second, now you stuck in a mess Concrete got a grip like it’s choking your chest [Fast Verse / Double-Time] Wait switch pace, quick, straight into the chaos Brain racing, can’t tame it, no brakes when I take off Every syllable hit like a missile I spray off Lyrical overload, critical mode, I don’t play soft Get it, I’m ripping it, flipping the rhythm, I’m killing the limit No minute to breathe when I’m deep in the scheme of a villain Adrenaline kicking, I’m sick with the written precision A product of living where nothing is given, just taken or missing Riddle me this how we live in a system so vicious? Invisible chains but the pain still explicit If I aim, I don’t miss it, every phrase got precision Turn rage into rhythm, now the stage is a prison Boom back to reality, back to the pressure Back to the blocks where the pain is forever Still I rise, still I write, still I fight through the weather From the concrete made me break, made me better [Hook] Stand up out the cracks, out the dirt From the pain, from the hustle, from the hurt Let ‘em hear, let ‘em feel every word We don’t whisper we erupt, we disturb Stand up yeah we louder than the silence From the bottom where the trauma turns to violence We don’t break, we don’t fold, we don’t swerve From the concrete yeah we rise from the worst [Outro] Yeah… From the cracks in the pavement From the rage and the statements We don’t fade we transform. Concrete made me.
