If you ain't got a dream, you ain't got nuttin'

A lot of niggas changed on me when I got money

Said it come with the game and this what I wanted

So I'm a hustle like the first time, I got fronted for the love of the dream

And the love of the team

Put together, a circle, they couldn't come in-between

Went from lint in my pockets, to using money machines

I got my city back poppin' and they don't want me to leave

No, they don't want me to leave

But I gotta go and get it though

Time is money, and I'm on mission though

Poppy gotta eat, niggas shootin' 'round my momma wait

Cops run in my sister crib, I swear I gotta find a way

Try to take the million dollars and I'm like a dime away

Never asked a nigga for a hand, I always grind away

Watch my little rats, smoke my little weed

Sold a little crack just to fill my little needs

I was 16, gettin' on my little knees

Askin' da lord please, help me get a little cheese

It was hot out, same time it was yard out

In a jungle where niggas will rip your heart out

Cold summers where niggas a bright starve out

Wanna be a kingpin from watch a nigga ball out

Could you blame us, devil was tryna chain us

We just tried to fix the roof leak when it was rainin'

We just tried to keep the house warm when winter came in

But they rub the detainers, lockers and cells of strangers, the razors

The animal go in cages, that's what the slave masters told the workers when they slaved us.

Small city, big dreams

I've been waiting on this day since I was 16

Since I was 16

I've been waiting on this day since I was 16.

Small city, big dreams

I've been waiting on this day since I was 16

Since I was 16

I've been waiting on this day since I was 16.

Rock man told us sun don't shine

You know if his daddy hustled then his son gone grind

His father was locked up, now the son doin' time

When certain niggas get to starvin' know that gun shine

Two felonies on his record, he got one more time

Get that, push that, he don't want no job, lost hope

Some niggas don't even want no god

They just want a little money just to come through fly

Cause nobody ever listens to the broke nigga

Cause when you broke, be considered as a joke nigga

If you a joke, you consider as a hoe nigga

And no nigga wanna live like livin' poe nigga

Small city, big dreams

I've been waiting on this day since I was 16

Sellin white girl, I'm talkin' christine

Young boy with dreams touching that big screen.

Small city, big dreams

I've been waiting on this day since I was 16

Since I was 16

I've been waiting on this day since I was 16.

Small city, big dreams

I've been waiting on this day since I was 16

Since I was 16

I've been waiting on this day since I was 16.