I'ma take you back to day one, livin' in this New York It's deaf to the dumb, only break bread 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 dirt we did back on my mother But didn't care back then, that's why she like that Now my parents became the street and it's best like
Some nights I pray to God and ask Him to pull my 'Cuz times is hard like the [Incomprehensible] leave you scarred Street wise with no respect for authority and A chronic of crack, a typical bitch
Raised by Madu, who strung out on a dick But now and then I blessed her with a hit So she don't have to trick, it's amongst kids today Hustle krills, stack dough and every thing's
It's the proclamation Under the self devised of self preservation and starvation It's the emancipation 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 Daddy left, shit was a mess, Momma But I give her an award, 'cuz damn, she her best
Holdin' down the household, barely had money to Christmas time, cherished our shit like gold I can't front, Daddy was still if, we for me But him and Mommy breakin' up was a nightmare to me
Yo, this is for the younger fathers and mothers, and brothers Success is if it ain't influential to others We gotta the best out of this terrible situation If not for us, for the younger
We gotta break the chain and with the pain For all our people was slayed in vain For all our peoples that was falsely For all our peoples that's the name
It's the proclamation Under the self devised guidelines of self and starvation the emancipation proclamation Under the devised guidelines of self preservation and starvation
Let me show, I gotta L.O.D., they put me under the wing And then I teamed up with the 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 from snitches And them bitches and my mind on business
was tough 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 the Gambino Muscle in the hustle scene, like Nino
It gets than the words of Proverbs New thoughts as I cop the squat on the curb Thinkin' the herb my brain like spinach And heavy shine, flooded with ice might my self image
Stick 'em, my is so real, it hurts Like I saw my pops bein' driven off in a hearse Like I saw my mother bein' driven off in a hearse Like in school when the roach crawl out my
Like on Thanksgiving when we got free from the church then it was DJ Red Alert and Kool Herc Rockin' Lee's and in Tigra shirts Back then L.O.D. was puttin' in
From the to the grave We all in the struggle, we gon' struggle, we gon' strive to stay All my real people know I'm talkin' about each other backs Word up, my life is nothin' my niggas, word up