[00:00.60]My mama wanted me to be a baller but I ball a different way
[00:04.50]I look at my Rolex, say it's time to get this cake
[00:07.64]I throw all this money but it never fade away
[00:10.79]Uh, hoop dreams
[00:13.66]I used to shoot the rock until my ***** sold the rock
[00:17.29]They try to block my shot, I'm taking rollies out the box
[00:20.41]I used to go to practice just to work on my defence
[00:23.59]Red and white jersey, red and white mean hit the fence
[00:26.83]I was outside, tryna make another way
[00:30.03]To cut the water off that soap s**t that the NBA won't play
[00:33.11]I'm tryna see a cheque tack back, let it stack
[00:36.33]'Cause it's a long time before I see a contract
[00:39.59]Mama, I can't help it, s**t is getting real now
[00:42.71]I know you want me in a jersey but we got these bills now
[00:45.80]I know you want me on the court and not to visit me in court
[00:49.02]I got you girl, just be a good sport
[00:51.45]My mama wanted me to be a baller but I ball a different way
[00:55.90]I look at my Rolex, say it's time to get this cake
[00:58.86]I throw all this money but it never fade away
[01:01.97]Uh, hoop dreams
[01:04.28]What the **** I look like going bassline
[01:06.67]With this forty on my waste line?
[01:08.64]What the **** I look like going bassline
[01:12.65]With this forty on my waste line?
[01:15.81]Shorty at my phone all the time,
[01:19.49]Tryna **** me, that's a waste of time
[01:22.31]Shorty at my phone all the time,
[01:25.84]Tryna **** me, that's a waste of time
[01:28.67]Sometimes I still feel like a hooper,
[01:32.27]How I ball on ******
[01:33.96]Talking summertime to winter and to fall on ******
[01:37.00]I remember back when I couldn't even call on ******
[01:40.28]So tell me how I'm really 'posed to feel
[01:42.60]What the **** I look like wasting all my time?
[01:45.01]I got money on my line
[01:46.64]Boggy forty on my hiphop
[01:48.24]I make forty on my mind
[01:49.82]I make forty in the day so I need eighty by my side
[01:53.00]She ain't a dime
[01:53.84]What the **** I look like talking to a nine?
[01:56.28]I've been in and out my mind but I'm back up on my s**t
[01:59.43]Tryna get some ****** past us but they back up on my list
[02:02.69]Mama, look what I cup, she always knew that I'd be rich
[02:05.86]Now I rap and don't play ball
[02:07.45]But I'm still balling in this *****
[02:09.00]My mama wanted me to be a baller but I ball a different way
[02:12.50]I look at my Rolex, say it's time to get this cake
[02:15.64]I throw all this money but it never fade away
[02:18.71]Uh, hoop dreams
[02:21.34]What the **** I look like going bassline
[02:23.41]With this forty on my waste line?
[02:25.46]Hoop Dreams
[02:27.62]What the **** I look like going bassline
[02:29.86]With this forty on my waste line?
[02:32.15]Hoop Dreams
[02:34.15]Shorty at my phone all the time, tryna **** me
[02:37.11]That's a waste of time
[02:39.04]Hoop Dreams
[02:40.29]Shorty at my phone all the time, tryna **** me
[02:43.52]That's a waste of time
[02:45.41]Hoop Dreams