1] I try to always buy final call the F.O.I though that's not what Islam always signify Y'all love the struggle in 'em They would get on their knees and shoes 'fore they let the drugs afflict 'em Makin taco's and fuckin with and dime broke, but dignified with high hopes Some shoulder the weight of the median, make it look easy Even though walkin the tight roads Immigrants, twelve in one bedroom I'm too cool, I look at 'em like Those fools combine forces and put the And who the new owner of the corner store is Shit, what's stoppin me doin that? I probably could drug smugglers approve of that if one dime sack in the time 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 Keep my son's in my sleep I'ma walk the Planet Earth with his name carved deep in my like
x2] Children growin, women Men go workin, but the use When the real strive and stress about the rent And can still die poor and in debt a cent
2] Born again creatures from the suburbs Tryin to souls on Broadway, they got some nerve Comin here unaware the one's with no material gifts Sometimes most leave rifts Lazyness got me spare the stand back and was that That can't hold me back, my man Vast me that "Harlem got all that on a scale" When bullets in the sandboxes every bid is real
I see children growin up within a wicked Smilin I wanna kiss 'em, I see prophet in 'em Poverty's trickin people my generation And down to world's most creative I've seen both of the fence Picket a chain link and we ain't all the same thing but They got so impressed by me They try to walk, talk, interact and dress me We the world's imagination I to idolize athletes and entertainers Cause they never let the capture 'em System gave 'em lemons, made and sold it back to 'em
x2] Children growin, producin Men go workin, but the use the real strive hard and stress about the rent And can still die and in debt without a cent
3] Marvin Gaye said it best "This livin" No your religion the earth keep spinnin And the sun keep shinin, babies cryin Old folks dyin in beats you put ya chiming And here I am, still lower class Same room, same view, different cast of Regina got arrested as a late Couldn't trick, got evicted, lost her section aid Onward my neighbourhood's revolving 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
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