1] I try to always buy call from the F.O.I Even though that's not what always signify Y'all love the struggle in 'em They would get on their knees and shoes 'fore they ever let the afflict 'em Makin taco's and fuckin McDonald's Nickel and dime broke, but with high hopes Some people shoulder the weight of the median, it look easy Even though they walkin the roads Immigrants, twelve in one bedroom I'm too cool, I look at 'em like Those fools combine and put the resources And guess who the new owner of the store is Shit, what's stoppin me from doin I probably with drug smugglers approve of that Because if one dime sack in the can climax Into a billion industry, then look at my abilities But I'm a dreamer in ways I feel if you in God that you believe in brighter days my son's heartbeat in my sleep I'ma walk the Planet Earth with his name carved in my feet like
x2] Children growin, women Men go workin, but the use When the real strive hard and about the rent And can still die poor and in debt a cent
2] Born again christian creatures the suburbs Tryin to save on Broadway, they got some nerve here unaware that the one's with no material gifts Sometimes most spirits rifts Lazyness got me spare the stand and what was that can't hold me back, my man Vast told me that "Harlem got all that on a scale" there's bullets in the sandboxes every bid is real
I see children growin up within a system Smilin I kiss 'em, I see prophet Muhammad in 'em trickin people from my generation And hands to world's most creative seen both sides of the fence Picket a chain link and we ain't all thinkin the thing but They teens got so by me try to walk, talk, interact and dress like me We captivated the world's I used to idolize and entertainers Cause they let the situation capture 'em System 'em lemons, made lemonade and sold it back to 'em
x2] Children growin, women Men go workin, but the use When the real hard and stress about the rent And can die poor and in debt without a cent
3] Marvin Gaye said it best "This livin" No matter your religion the earth spinnin And the sun keep shinin, babies cryin Old folks in beats within you put ya chiming And here I am, still lower America room, same view, different cast of characters Regina got as a late prowler Couldn't trick, got evicted, her section aid voucher Onward goes my neighbourhood's door A gang of properties nobody owns at all I guess that's why we call it a Nobody as long as it takes to become neighbour
x2] Children growin, women Men go workin, but the use When the real strive hard and stress the rent And can still die poor and in without a cent