Verse 1: I first remember Hoover rd, Hoover Rd projects, before the gun play, drug dealers and car thefts, when government assistance helped our debt, mom and dad worked but we kept that to ourself, someone snitched DHA had no sympathy, forced out we got a big house down on Trinity, I had friends from Glendale to North Duke St, Shirley Caesar was on Geer and she was cool G,, East End Park playing ball on N Alston, playing for some green, like I’m ballin wit Boston, on Canal, they playing spades running them bostons, the liquor house on Mallard Ave was there often, around the corner from Dearborn on Club Blvd my grandparents my dads parents never pulled apart, at their church on Nixon, we read the book of god,, my life in Durham, a rap mural art

Chorus: I use to live on the west coast I love California,
I still have family I visit down in Florida,
the love of my life yeah she from New York,
but North Cackalack is where I resort,
I got that North Carolina swag, you ain’t got what North Carolina has, raise up that North Carolina flag
I got that North Carolina swag, you ain’t got what North Carolina has, raise up that North Carolina flag


Verse 2: 2019 NC 55 became home when my parents marriage didn’t survive, dad was on Ridgeway with a 5th and his guys, where Mcdougal Terrace niggas lived the filthiest lives, I would walk to my cousins house off Elmira, Curtis St where I seen a few one nighters, late night all I seen wass blunts and lighters, my Fayetteville St aunt kept that heat beside her, my half brother lived on the West End, down on Rosedale where life was dead end,, at Lyon Park he almost got arrested, he ran but they caught his ass down on Morehead, I bought a house on University Dr, where I read my first born all his nursery rhymes, the BullCity shaped the way my life is designed, you can follow my history by the street signs