[Verse 1] Stay there, if you wan' stay there making complaints I'ma change my own fate I'm the same kid that was starving Scraping on plates Now I drive a new plate Late night fighting those demons Praying for a break I just pray I don't break You only get one shot There is not a outtake, uh I pray you make it out safe [Hook] Even my mum put pressure on me And then my son put pressure on me Even the slum put pressure on me But pressure makes diamonds Even my mum put pressure on me And then my son put pressure on me Even the slum put pressure on me But pressure makes diamonds [Post-Hook] Look what the pressure made It made you make it Singing "Started from the Bottom" Cause you started from the bottom, in the basement Look at what the pressure made It made you make it Singer started from the bottom Cause you started from the bottom, in the basement [Verse 2] Ima take you back to '03 See my olders used to have a cold steez I swear, everyting they wore was off-key And I just wanna see them jackets on me Remember Sticher in the coup with OG Or Ratty when he had the cold Jeep I swear everyting they wore was on freeze I mean everyting they wore was on fleek See the jungle where I live is concrete I'm just tryna be a Mowgli And everybody's trapping 'round me But nobody ain't styling on me I turned into the older that I always wan' be I copped my first Q from Ceaze I'm tryna build my line, I can't sleep Then I built my line and now I can't sleep Now my neighbors dem are getting nosey Cah I'm in and out, can't pa** three And my baby mother's getting lonely And every day she says she wan' leave Now the next ting, she saying she ah breed [Gasps] I can't breathe Cah now I gotta make some more P But it's getting cat and mouse with the police I just got a chase, had to dash a lil B Came back couldn't even find E And then the f**ing feds even tried to take Z And when they came back, man, the f**ers took P They raided 6 yards it was 6:30 Federali looking like the army So now I got the feeling that they're tryna swarm me So now I'm only rapping on beats [Hook] Even my mum put pressure on me And then my son put pressure on me Even the slum put pressure on me But pressure makes diamonds Even my mum put pressure on me And then my son put pressure on me Even the slum put pressure on me But pressure makes diamonds [Post-Hook] Look what the pressure made It made you make it Singing "Started from the Bottom" Cause you started from the bottom, in the basement Look at what the pressure made It made you make it Singer started from the bottom Cause you started from the bottom, in the basement [Bridge] Now I got my whole fam banking on me Cause if I don't provide then nobody don't eat The Lord made a giant out of little old me Cause pressure made I, man Now I got my whole fam banking on me Cause if I don't provide then nobody don't eat The Lord made a giant out of little old me Cause pressure made I, man, yeah [Verse 3] All the stresses, yeah For us, adult adolescents I been getting paid just to finish off my sentence Same time my little brother's trying to finish off his sentence We just wanna shine, we put diamonds in our pendants Truth is, we're just trying to find some independence Our descendants probably look and think we look horrendous Which side is your preference? Love and hate got four letters Those who wish me d**h, I just say they got a d**hwish Call them toy soliders, I can eat them for my breakfast Put them in my eggs, leave them running till they're breathless Or put them in the pan, let them sizzle till they perish I'm a diamond and I'm precious, my diamond's from the pressure