I grew up in ph city
With no sticks all knives
A place where the youths don know no guns
Strapped up with knives
Bad moved then you sliced and diced
Paying the ultimate price
A place where the youths ain't got not jobs
No 9-5
But you have to do what
You have to do to survive
Ganglife is all they got
It's literally their identity
If they not monsters they are food
A different world from you and me
Look through their eyes and see
A broken heart that bleeds
A broken heart that bleeds
I grew up in ph city
Aka the garden city
Aka the oil city living in ogbunabali
Where they don't don't know no guns
All the know is big cutlasses
Sparks like the 4th of July you know a nigga don't lie
If I'm lying then I'm flying away
Make you dey apply your brain
Before person go make you go insane
Making you feel this impending pain
Like all your love was in vain
Whole cycle stuck on replay
Now you smoking that maryjane
Mixed emotions pouring like rain
Even your shrink sef dey complain
Cause the matter on ground dey burst brain
I dey feel am for my membrane
I just want soft life like plantain
E yeah
Life is just a game
All of a sudden I'm getting all the blame
Whole world spinning like a hurricane
I just want the money and fame
I grew up in ph city
Aka the garden city
Aka the oil city living in ogbunabali
Where they don't don't know no guns
All the know is big cutlasses
Sparks like the 4th of July you know a nigga don't lie
If I'm lying then I'm flying away