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Snake Hill & 611

from Dear Summer by Zachary Peterson

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Produced by Zachary Peterson; Samples Bon Iver’s “Hinnom, TX”

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Snake Hill & 611


I guess this story starts back in ‘97
Das the summer my pops left us
I was 5 years old but I couldn’t sweat it
Became a man on the corner of Snake Hill n 6-11
Man, I grew up on that intersection
Now, to my hood, I'm like a living legend
But it's plenty niggas that had it worse than me
So early on it taught me to count my blessings
Walk across the street from school down to Aunt Jane’s
'Fore u even got in the house, u cud smell the crescents
Sweet potatoes n’ the Mac n Cheese
But before we ate, she made me do my lesson
The divorce had my mama stressing
My uncle dealing with being diabetic
Then middle school came n’ the shit was hectic
Man, I swear the shit was crazy as an adolescent
‘Cuz that’s Aunt Jane passed n Uncle Curly too
N’ a couple other ppl that I barely knew
N’ yeah that shit hurt but that's just life
Das y in all of my verses I tell the dirty truth
Then high school came n Erin went to Tech
That spring, Cho shot up the fuckin’ school
Tattooed tears on my face n I'm just a freshman
Fam lookin’ at me like, "What we gonna do?"
I'm like, “Shit nigga, I'm only 15”
And I ain't got a fuckin’ clue
Fuck it, put the world on my back
Told ‘em we gon’ do what we gotta do
That's the move that was logical
We finna get up out this bullshit, I promise u
That's what I told my uncle n my grandfather too
But most especially Mom Dukes
Das when I fell in love with Hip-Hop
Started freestyling on the bus ride after school
But don't get it twisted, I was ‘bout my business
‘Cuz it was homework I still had to do
‘Cuz I was tryna get up out the shit
Yea I'm talkin’ bout that box that they got us in
So next thing u know, I'm at A&T
On a full academic scholarship
A young nigga on his college shit
But still making beats n’ rhyming shit
Graduated, May 2014
On my Summa Cum Laude shit
Tears of joy from my mom n shit
I know she proud of my accomplishments
So the biggest lesson the struggle taught me
Is that success is how u define the shit

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from Dear Summer, released June 21, 2015

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Zachary Peterson Centreville, Virginia

Born and raised in the #DMV. Just a young man that loves to make music. All in all, my music is my bio.

I produce, engineer my own music, rap, and croon (for lack of better words, but I wouldn't call it singing) on occasion.

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