1] I try to always buy final from the F.O.I Even though that's not what always signify Y'all gotta the struggle in 'em would get on their knees and shine shoes 'fore they let the drugs afflict 'em Makin taco's and fuckin McDonald's Nickel and dime broke, but dignified high hopes Some shoulder the weight of the median, make it look easy Even though they walkin the tight Immigrants, twelve in one bedroom I'm too cool, I at 'em like fools Those fools forces and put the resources And guess who the new owner of the corner is Shit, what's stoppin me doin that? I probably could drug smugglers approve of that Because if one dime in the time can climax Into a billion dollar industry, then look at my But I'm a in alotta ways I if you believe in God that you believe in brighter days Keep my son's in my sleep I'ma walk the Planet Earth with his 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 poor and in debt without a
2] Born again christian from the suburbs Tryin to save souls on Broadway, they got nerve Comin here unaware that the one's with no material Sometimes most spirits leave Lazyness got me the stand back 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 in the sandboxes every bid is real
I see children up within a wicked system I wanna kiss 'em, I see prophet Muhammad in 'em Poverty's people from my generation And hands to world's most creative I've both sides of the fence a chain link and we ain't all thinkin the same thing but They teens got so by me They try to walk, talk, interact and like me We captivated the imagination I used to idolize and entertainers Cause never let the situation capture 'em System gave 'em lemons, lemonade and sold it back to 'em
x2] Children growin, women Men go workin, but the use When the real strive hard and stress about the And can still die poor and in debt without a
3] Marvin Gaye said it best "This livin" No matter your the earth keep spinnin And the sun shinin, babies keep cryin Old folks dyin in beats within you put ya And here I am, still lower class room, same view, different cast of characters Regina got as a late prowler Couldn't trick, got evicted, lost her section aid Onward goes my neighbourhood's revolving A gang of rental nobody owns at all I that's why we call it a hood stays as long as it takes to become neighbour
x2] Children growin, women Men go workin, but the use When the strive hard and stress about the rent And can still die poor and in debt a cent