Protecting My Energy - Jackboy

I feel like niggas ain’t as real as me

So I’m protecting my energy

I’ve been talked down by family

So nowadays, we don’t speak like we enemies

Look in my eyes say I’ve been crossed before

They hurt a boy so bad he can feel it in his soul

Dripped in the latest, I guess that’s the reason these niggas hating

Ain’t never throw no shade, I grind hard and patiently waited

I’m gambling with my life but I promise I’ve never been to Vegas

In the hood, shootin' dice, clutchin' on a dirty .380

I’m good anywhere, I earned my stripes just like a zebra

Cold world, I’m in the projects, huggin' on my heater

I took for me to get a million for her to see I ain’t regular

I moved on, I don’t need you, bitch, don’t call my cellular

Big gun in my Moncler, I’m not a wrestler

Steppin' on niggas, check the score, I’m way ahead of ya

Got crossed by a couple niggas I ain’t expect, hate it

We had plans to ball together but instead the love faded

I feel like niggas ain’t as real as me

So I’m protecting my energy

I’ve been talked down by family

So nowadays, we don’t speak like we enemies

Look in my eyes say I’ve been crossed before

They hurt a boy so bad he can feel it in his soul

I was raised by the streets, it’s hard to adapt to the fame

Young nigga with a old soul, look in my eyes, you see pain

All these scars on my body, covered it with diamond chains

Hunnid K in cash, I can act an ass with Johnny Dang

Know I love to spazz 'em, thumbin' through the racks, I do my thing

Livin' life, I still can’t crash, I’m in my own lane

I came from the bottom, it’s only right they let me touch the top

And how I’m saving up this bread, you woulda thought it’s 'bout to rot

They gave my nigga twenty-five, he don’t never watch the clock

Rather beat on people’s kids than do his time in the box

He forgot how to feel, but he know my love real

And he know I’ll spend my last just to see him when I appeal

I feel like niggas ain’t as real as me

So I’m protecting my energy

I’ve been talked down by family

So nowadays, we don’t speak like we enemies

Look in my eyes say I’ve been crossed before

They hurt a boy so bad he can feel it in his soul