1] I try to buy final call from the F.O.I Even though not what Islam 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 with Nickel and dime broke, but dignified high hopes people shoulder the weight of the median, make it look easy Even though they the tight roads Immigrants, twelve in one bedroom I'm too cool, I look at 'em like fools combine forces and put the resources And who the new owner of the corner store is Shit, what's stoppin me from doin I probably with drug smugglers approve of that Because if one 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 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 feet
x2] Children growin, producin 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 christian from the suburbs Tryin to souls on Broadway, they got some nerve Comin here unaware that the with no material gifts Sometimes most spirits rifts Lazyness got me spare the back and what was that That can't me back, my man Vast told me that "Harlem got all that on a scale" When there's bullets in the sandboxes bid is real
I see children up within a wicked system I wanna kiss 'em, I see prophet Muhammad in 'em Poverty's trickin people my generation And down to world's most creative I've both sides of the fence Picket a chain link and we all thinkin the same thing but They got so impressed by me try to walk, talk, interact and dress like me We captivated the world's I used to athletes and entertainers they never let the situation capture 'em System gave 'em lemons, made and sold it back to 'em
x2] Children growin, women Men go workin, but the use the real strive hard and stress about the rent And can still die poor and in debt without a
3] Marvin Gaye said it best "This livin" No matter your religion the keep spinnin And the sun keep shinin, keep cryin Old folks in beats within you put ya chiming And I am, still lower class America Same room, view, different cast of characters got arrested as a late prowler Couldn't trick, got evicted, lost her section aid Onward goes my neighbourhood's revolving A of rental properties nobody owns at all I guess that's why we call it a Nobody stays as long as it to become neighbour
x2] Children growin, women Men go workin, but the use the real strive hard and stress about the rent And can still die poor and in without a cent