On “I Was Just Thinking,” Gunna says, “There’s four walls talking to you, telling you you gone/Only I done cried causе this feeling for my bro /And you know my mind, you done watched that n*gga grow/Know you hearing the lies that your lil’ brother might fold/Yeah, I had popped out, but don’t let ‘em say I told.”
Among some of the other ostensible allusions to the case and plea fallout include these lines from “Back to the Moon”: “You get caught, gotta know how it go/’Cause this shit could get tricky fasho/Rich enough to get put in a hole/Got a crew but I been all alone.
Despite everything, there’s plenty of defiance and resilience in Gunna lyrics, with the rapper spitting on “Paybach,” “I made a few mistakes, but I’m still a star/I hate the government, tryna tear us apart/But I’ma keep it going, that’s what’s in my heart.”