I think that he has had a bad childhood because he grew up in the Bronx and the Bronx is a big apartment complex that has been run down by gangs, guns and drugs.

HVNLY is a uplifting song because it is talking about what it is like to grow up in a bad area “born in Bronx raised in Bronx” and that if you grow up in a bad area doesn’t mean that you have to be apart of the baddness your self.