Here's the tale of a black male raised in these city streets Out here hustling to make ends meet in a world that's so That's ran by greed, and the power for me, I'm a survivor I do I have to and only God can judge me for that
So before you cash your stones on me I want you to take a look at yourself in the And ask to pray for you 'Cause all I'm asking is to pray for me, understand
I was around gangstas, hustlers and killers 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 it's a shame, I chose game But see I'ma headed nigga with no one to blame
And I'ma gonna keep on tipping the street lights And be wondering which wanna take my life Until I'm staying two feet in front of you haters
I'm living the street life and I can't get away I don't know if I'ma gonna make it to day So night I pray, oh, I pray
I'm living the street life and I just get away I don't know if gonna make it to another day So every night, I
Well, I'm by rats, roaches and dope fiends My whole world is being weighed up on a triple Man, I don't whats in store for me god Will I reach 21? Why is life so hard?
See the question that's asked And is there a heaven or hell can the young black Or will he be in the cell I know as for me I only trusted a few I had to hustle to now, what else could I do
They say, there's chances for everybody that's That little girl had no chance when that hit I mean it to the sky and all you heard was a cry Oh Lord, don't let my die
I'm living the street and I just can't get away I don't know if I'ma make it to another day So every night I pray, oh, I
I'm living the street life and I just get away I don't know if gonna make it to another day So night, I pray
'Til the day that I die, I'll true to my neighborhood Fuck my neighborhood nigga, I wish you would Ain't shit like, oh, once said And oh, no, fool my nigga, Fred ain't
Neither is Pook or Kansas City, OG's still here with me My homie boo, boo up? And you know, I cant forget my nigga, nigga, Novesnake boats and Herbie
Shine and Cherelle ya pray for me I rock death so dam senseless Big houses, what the fucking been missing And there's one more nigga that be true to my Mr. Motion, you the while I'm breaking 'em off, so our
I peed 'em to dead, whole reason was To that nigga twist for believing in me, I got a shorty to My priority is to make sure shit don't have to struggle like me And if I ask for one more wish I tell 'em, I hug ya 'cuz I'm missing ya since
I'm the street life and I just can't get away I don't know if I'ma make it to another day So every I pray, oh, I pray
I'm living the street life and I just get away I don't know if I'ma gonna make it to day So night, I pray
So I'm to pray for me, mama, pray for me Daddy, pray for me, baby, for me Please pray for me, for me Pray for me, for me