1] I try to buy final call from the F.O.I Even though that's not what Islam always Y'all gotta love the in 'em They would get on their knees and shine 'fore they ever let the drugs 'em Makin and fuckin with McDonald's Nickel and broke, but dignified with high hopes Some people shoulder the weight of the median, make it easy Even though they walkin the tight Immigrants, twelve deep in one I'm too cool, I look at 'em fools Those fools combine forces and put the And who the new owner of the corner store is Shit, stoppin me from doin that? I could with drug smugglers approve of that if one dime sack in the time can climax Into a billion dollar industry, then look at my But I'm a in alotta ways I feel if you believe in God that you believe in days Keep my son's heartbeat in my I'ma walk the Planet Earth his name carved deep in my feet like
x2] Children growin, women Men go workin, but the use When the real hard and stress about the rent And can still die and in debt without a cent
2] Born again creatures from the suburbs Tryin to save souls on Broadway, got some nerve Comin unaware that the one's with no material gifts Sometimes most spirits leave Lazyness got me spare the stand back and what was That can't me back, my man Vast told me that "Harlem got all on a bigger scale" When there's bullets in the every bid is real
I see children growin up a wicked system Smilin I wanna 'em, I see prophet Muhammad in 'em Poverty's people from my generation And hands down to world's most I've seen sides of the fence Picket a chain link and we ain't all thinkin the same but They teens got so by me They try to walk, talk, interact and like me We the world's imagination I used to idolize athletes and Cause they never let the situation 'em System gave 'em lemons, made and sold it back to 'em
x2] Children growin, producin Men go workin, but the use When the real strive hard and stress about the And can still die poor and in debt a cent
3] Marvin Gaye said it best "This livin" No matter religion the earth keep spinnin And the sun keep shinin, babies keep Old folks dyin in beats you put ya chiming And here I am, lower class America Same room, 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 rental properties owns at all I guess that's why we call it a Nobody stays as long as it takes to become
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 without a cent