Songfacts®:

• Having been raised by his single mom in a tough Atlanta neighborhood, this ferocious track finds Lil Baby spitting hard-hitting bars about remaining true to his hood-based roots. The rapper has found huge success thanks to his hard work ethic, but remains a tremendous influence on the streets. He boasts his people are proud of him, as he is "as real as it gets."
• Lil Baby enlisted the Louisville, Kentucky rapper EST Gee to spit an impassioned verse of his own. He sticks to the same gangsta theme, rapping, "Ask the trenches, they gon' say I'm the realest."
• When the song entered the Hot 100 dated March 20, 2021, it became EST Gee's first hit.
• ATL Jacob and DY Krazy's production incorporates a horror-movie piano line.
  
  ATL Jacob is associated with Future's FBG collective. He worked on six songs in total on Future's seventh studio album, The WIZRD, including the intro track, "Never Stop."
  
  DY Krazy is a member of the 808 Mafia production team. His other credits include Future and Young Thug's "Patek Water" and Gucci Mane, Bruno Mars and Kodak Black's "Wake Up In The Sky."