Here's the tale of a young black raised in these city streets Out here hustling to ends meet in a world that's so corrupt ran by greed, money and the power for me, I'm a survivor I do what I to and only God can judge me for that
So before you cash your down on me I you to take a look at yourself in the mirror And ask to pray for you 'Cause all I'm asking is to pray for me, understand
I was born around gangstas, hustlers and Drug dealers with math figures making hella In the city of Chi, the of the Gs If ya don't work, ya don't eat that's been the code of the
As for me, I was up at an early age Learned how to cook cane, to gang bang And it's a damn shame, I game But see I'ma knuckle 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 then I'm staying two feet in of you haters
I'm living the street life and I just can't get 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 know if I'ma gonna make it to another day So night, I pray
Well, I'm by rats, roaches and dope fiends My whole world is being weighed up on a triple Man, I don't know whats in for me god Will I reach 21? Why is life so damn
See thats the question asked And is a heaven or hell can the young black live Or will he be chained in the I don't know as for me I only a few I had to hustle to survive now, what else I do
They say, there's for everybody that's bullshit That little girl had no chance when that hit I mean it blew to the sky and all you was a cry Oh Lord, let my baby die
I'm living the 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 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
'Til the day I die, I'll stay true to my neighborhood Fuck with my neighborhood nigga, I you would Ain't shit like, oh, once said And oh, no, my nigga, Fred ain't dead
is Pook or Kansas 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 Genue so dam senseless Big houses, what the fucking radio been And there's one nigga that be true to my heart Mr. Motion, you the reason while I'm 'em off, so our
I peed 'em to dead, reason was love To that nigga twist for believing in me, I got a shorty to My priority is to make this shit don't have to struggle like me And if I could ask for one more I tell 'em, I wanna hug ya I'm missing ya since
I'm living the street life and I just can't get I don't know if I'ma gonna 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 make it to another day So night, I pray
So I'm to pray for me, mama, pray for me Daddy, for me, baby, pray for me Please pray for me, for me Pray for me, for me