In "My Side," Lil Baby weighs loyalty to his crew against the paranoia and hustle that built his empire. He writes his friends into his will, watches for plots, and keeps a weapon close, yet the bravado cracks when trust becomes a test, like daring a woman to jump from a balcony. Love gets reduced to a transaction where affection is traded for drugs, and even intimacy stays masked. The repeated promise to hold down his side carries the exhaustion of never being able to stop, because stopping means losing everything he fought to protect.
My Side Lyrics by Lil Baby
Ayy
I don’t know where to put it down, you know what I’m sayin’?
Put the bros inside my will in case I die ‘fore they get out (Free the guys)
If it’s money somewhere here, you know I’m somewhere in the clouds
Tryna box me in a corner, you know I peep the plot (I’m slicker than them)
Fuck you mean? I’m from Atlanta, you know I keep a Glock
Postin’ every time it pop off, low-key on some bullshit
Extra two hundred in the Demon, I had got the nose did (Skrrt)
They puttin’ the hatin’ scripts down, but it can’t stop the motion (We ballin’)
Doin’ interviews, gossipin’, that’s really ho shit (Ho)
I got an empire now, I’m focused on building up the [falconry ?][0:34]
She asked me do I trust her, told her to jump over the balcony (Hahaha)
Puttin’ money away
We still got smoke for shit we got into when we was in grade school (Kids)
You been in prison, we been peelin’ shit, I’m ready to play, dude
Ain’t no rush, you got to do it right, I know how to play cool
This ain’t back in the day, fool
Puttin’ it down for my side (Yeah)
Puttin’ it down for my guys (Folk)
Puttin’ it down for my side
She ain’t comin’ outside unless I tell her come outside (Come on)
She ain’t jumpin’ outside, when she get right, she know the vibes (She know that)
Puttin’ it down for my side
I’m still at it, add me up (Add me up)
Trappin’ in the lab, I gotta build my catalogue up
She a bad, bad bitch, I keep her mask on stuck
And I’m stayin’ focused, I don’t need no Adderall, nigga, yeah
Put it up and don’t stop
Once it’s that, I can’t call it off
I been fucked up since my first one
I got you a Kelly, same color your birth stone
Baby, never give up
Baby, takin’ it all, got me fallin’ closer
I ain’t tellin’ a soul, I ain’t tryna expose you
You can take all your love, just give me the drugs, bae
I ain’t trustin’ your judgement (I can’t)
Bro got rich off of substance (The tranq)
Feed the fam, I just went five hundred bags to my cousin (That’s easy)
Take my quota to a B, I ain’t gon’ never stop hustin’
All this stuff I got you, wouldn’t believe I came up from nothin’
I’m the greatest of all time (Yeah)
Pretty bitches, all kind, you knock down niggas, all sides
We put them bags on every side
It ain’t workin’ with her boyfriend, she know that she can call me
I’m jumpin’ off a jet with billionaires straight to Spark Street
I don’t know how to code switch
We bought choppers by the crate, that’s for the youth, not the posters (Can’t post this shit)
Try to rock the same watches that I got, she some cold shit (AP them)
Hundred M’s in all cash, bro, I can really pop it (Pop it)
Not the baddest bitch in any room, I still got it
Twenty summers, not a fumble, I was in prison, gettin’ money
I treat the hood like they my family, they can get anything from me
I’m just a kid who did, I gotta go the hardest (Yeah)
All black on the Brabus
Puttin’ it down for my side (Yeah)
Puttin’ it down for my guys (Yeah)
Puttin’ it down for my side (Yeah, yeah)
She ain’t comin’ outside unless I tell her come outside (Come on)
She ain’t jumpin’ outside, when she get right, she know the vibes
Puttin’ it down for my side
I’m still at it, add me up (Add me up)
Trappin’ in the lab, I gotta build my catalogue up (I need a B)
She a bad, bad bitch, I keep her mask on stuck (On stuck)
And I’m stayin’ focused, I don’t need no Adderall, nigga (For what?), yeah
Put it up and don’t stop
Once it’s that, I can’t call it off
I been fucked up since my first one
I got you a Kelly, same color your birth stone
Baby, never give up
Baby, takin’ it all, got me fallin’ closer
I ain’t tellin’ a soul, I ain’t tryna expose you
You can take all your love, just give me the drugs, bae
