Here's the tale of a young black male in these city streets Out here hustling to make ends in a world that's so corrupt ran by greed, money and the power for me, I'm a survivor I do what I have to and God can judge me for that
So before you cash stones down on me I want you to a look at yourself in the mirror And ask to pray for you 'Cause that's all I'm asking is to pray for me,
I was born around gangstas, hustlers and Drug dealers with math making hella scrilla In the city of Chi, the of the Gs If ya work, ya don't 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 damn shame, I game But see I'ma knuckle headed with no one to blame
And I'ma gonna on tipping under the street lights And be wondering which wanna take my life Until then I'm staying two in front of you haters
I'm living the street life and I just get away I don't if I'ma gonna make 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 I'ma gonna make it to day So night, I pray
Well, I'm surrounded by rats, roaches and dope My whole world is weighed up on a triple beam Man, I don't whats in store for me god Will I 21? Why is life so damn hard?
See the question that's asked And is there a heaven or can the young black live Or he be chained in the cell I don't know as for me I trusted a few I had to hustle to survive now, what could I do
They say, there's for everybody that's bullshit That little had no chance when that bullet hit I mean it blew to the sky and all you was a cry Oh Lord, don't let my die
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 and I just can't get away I don't if I'ma gonna make it to another day So night, I pray
'Til the day that I die, I'll true to my neighborhood Fuck with my neighborhood nigga, I you would Ain't changed like, oh, once said And oh, no, fool my nigga, Fred dead
Neither is Pook or Kansas City, true still here with me My homie boo, boo up? And you know, I forget about my nigga, nigga, Novesnake Nightime boats and
Shine and would ya pray for me I Genue death so dam senseless Big houses, what the fucking radio missing And there's one more nigga be true to my heart Mr. Motion, you the reason I'm breaking 'em off, so our
I peed 'em to dead, whole was love To that nigga twist for believing in me, I got a to feed My priority is to sure 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 missing ya
I'm living the street life and I just 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 life and I just can't get away I don't know if I'ma gonna it to another day So every night, I
So I'm to pray for me, mama, pray for me Daddy, pray for me, baby, for me Please for me, pray for me Pray for me, for me