Don Q can’t lie in more ways than one. He starts the song with a straightforward statement: “when I die, fuck it, I wanna go to hell/Cause I’m a piece of shit, it ain’t hard to fuckin’ tell.” Don explains the condition of being a “piece of shit” as inevitable, that it’s “the way of life” and that “the hood is full of choices, n***a, pick your poison.” By the time we get to the chorus it’s clear that Don Q is loving “the way of life” even if he didn’t choose it. He goes from being a piece of shit to the shit. As A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie belts it in the chorus: “I can’t lie/I’m that guy.”
