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