Here's the tale of a young black raised in these city streets Out here hustling to make meet in a world that's so corrupt That's ran by greed, and the power for me, I'm a survivor I do what I have to and only God can judge me for
So before you your stones down on me I want you to a look at yourself in the mirror And ask somebody to for you that's all I'm asking is to pray for me, understand
I was born around gangstas, hustlers and dealers with math figures making hella scrilla In the city of Chi, the of the Gs If ya don't work, ya eat that's been the code of the streets
As for me, I was brought up at an age how to cook cane, started to gang bang And a damn shame, I chose game But see I'ma knuckle headed nigga no one to blame
And I'ma gonna keep on tipping under the lights And be wondering nigga wanna take my life Until then I'm staying two feet in front of you
I'm living the street life and I can't get away I don't know if I'ma gonna it to another day So night I pray, oh, I pray
I'm living the street life and I can't get away I don't know if gonna make it to another day So night, I pray
Well, I'm surrounded by rats, roaches and dope My world is being weighed up on a triple beam Man, I don't know in store for me god Will I 21? Why is life so damn hard?
See thats the question asked And is there a heaven or hell can the black live Or he be chained in the cell I don't as for me I only trusted a few I had to to survive now, what else could I do
They say, there's chances for everybody that's That little girl had no chance when bullet hit I mean it to the sky and all you heard was a cry Oh Lord, don't let my die
I'm the street life and I just can't get away I don't know if gonna make it to another day So night I pray, oh, I pray
I'm living the life and I just can't get away I don't know if I'ma gonna it to another day So night, I pray
'Til the day that I die, I'll true to my neighborhood with my neighborhood nigga, I wish you would Ain't shit changed like, oh, once And oh, no, fool my nigga, Fred ain't
Neither is Pook or City, true OG's still here with me My homie boo, boo up? And you know, I cant forget about my nigga, nigga, Nightime and Herbie
and Cherelle would ya pray for me I rock death so dam senseless Big houses, what the fucking radio missing And there's one nigga that be true to my heart Mr. Motion, you the while I'm breaking 'em off, so our
I 'em to dead, whole reason was love To that nigga twist for believing in me, I got a to feed My priority is to make this shit don't have to struggle like me And if I could ask for one wish I tell 'em, I wanna hug ya 'cuz I'm ya since
I'm the street life and I just can't get away I don't know if gonna make it to another day So every night I pray, oh, I
I'm the street life and I just can't get away I don't know if I'ma gonna make it to day So every night, I
So I'm asking to pray for me, mama, for me Daddy, pray for me, baby, for me pray for me, pray for me Pray for me, for me