1] I try to always buy final from the F.O.I Even though that's not Islam always signify Y'all gotta the struggle in 'em They would get on their knees and shine 'fore they ever let the drugs 'em taco's and fuckin with McDonald's Nickel and dime broke, but dignified with hopes Some people shoulder the weight of the median, make it look Even though walkin the tight roads Immigrants, twelve in one bedroom I'm too cool, I look at 'em like Those combine forces and put the resources And guess who the new owner of the store is Shit, what's stoppin me doin that? I probably could with drug smugglers of that if one dime sack in the time can climax Into a billion dollar industry, then look at my But I'm a dreamer in alotta I feel if you believe in God that you in brighter days Keep my son's heartbeat in my I'ma walk the Planet Earth with his name deep in my feet like
x2] Children growin, producin Men go workin, but the use When the strive hard and stress about the rent And can still die poor and in debt without a
2] Born again creatures from the suburbs to save souls on Broadway, they got some nerve Comin here unaware that the one's with no material Sometimes most spirits leave Lazyness got me spare the stand and what was that That can't hold me back, my man Vast me that "Harlem got all that on a scale" When there's bullets in the every bid is real
I see children growin up within a system Smilin I wanna kiss 'em, I see Muhammad in 'em Poverty's trickin people from my And hands down to world's creative seen both sides of the fence Picket a chain and we ain't all thinkin the same thing but teens got so impressed by me They try to walk, talk, interact and dress me We captivated the imagination I used to athletes and entertainers Cause they let the situation capture 'em System gave 'em lemons, made lemonade and it back to 'em
x2] Children growin, producin Men go workin, but the use When the real strive and stress about the rent And can still die poor and in without a cent
3] Marvin Gaye said it best "This livin" No matter your the earth keep spinnin And the sun keep shinin, babies cryin Old folks in beats within you put ya chiming And here I am, still class America Same room, same view, different cast of got arrested as a late prowler Couldn't trick, got evicted, lost her section aid Onward my neighbourhood's revolving door A gang of rental properties owns at all I guess why we call it a hood 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 and in debt without a cent