I'ma take you back to day one, livin' in this New slum deaf to the dumb, only break bread with some Moms at 15, had no American dreams To this day, I'm sellin' to my cousin who's a
No one to me but my older brother Little did we know the we did fell back on my mother But didn't back then, that's why she left like that Now my parents became the street and it's best that
Some I pray to God and ask Him to pull my cord 'Cuz is hard like the [Incomprehensible] street'll leave you scarred Street wise with no respect for authority and A chronic of crack, a typical bitch
by Madu, who strung out on a glass dick But every now and then I blessed her a hit So she don't have to trick, prevalent amongst kids today krills, stack dough and every thing's okay
It's the proclamation Under the self devised guidelines of self preservation and It's the emancipation Under the self devised of self preservation and starvation
My life in this world about diamonds and pearls It was rough growin' up the boys and girls Daddy left, shit was a mess, Momma stressed But I give her an award, 'cuz damn, she tried her
Holdin' down the household, had money to fold Christmas time, our little shit like gold I can't front, was still if, we cared for me But him and Mommy breakin' up was a nightmare to me
Yo, this is for the younger fathers and mothers, and brothers is nothin' if it ain't influential to others We gotta make the best out of this situation If not for us, for the younger
We gotta break the chain and deal the pain For all our people that was slayed in For all our peoples was falsely framed For all our that's livin' the name
It's the emancipation Under the self devised guidelines of self preservation and It's the proclamation Under the self devised guidelines of preservation and starvation
Let me show, I gotta L.O.D., they put me under the wing And then I teamed up the most beautiful thing In the world, L.O.D. we all, we got I'ma and my mans keep it like it or not
I know it hurts, havin' to do dirt Police all over my back, feel like them jerks When I'm on my road to the riches, I stay away snitches And them bitches and keep my mind on
Life was so I became aggressive like a pit The time I felt relaxed was when the blunt was lit Thinkin' me and my team can be tight like the Muscle in the scene, respected like Nino
It gets than the words of Proverbs New emerge as I cop the squat on the curb Thinkin' the herb strengthen my brain spinach And heavy shine, flooded with ice might boost my image
Stick 'em, my life is so real, it Like when I saw my bein' driven off in a hearse Like when I saw my bein' driven off in a hearse Like in school when the roach crawl out my
Like on Thanksgiving we got free food from the church Back then it was DJ Red Alert and Kool Rockin' Lee's and in Tigra shirts Back then L.O.D. was in work
From the cradle to the We all in the struggle, we gon' struggle, we gon' to stay alive All my people know what I'm talkin' about each other backs Word up, my life is nothin' without my niggas, up