Mm hmm mm hmm Misery and Piss poor, you
moments They know why I'm so seasoned, y'know Welfare a reason why I'm seasoned
My out there in the ghetto The slums, the projects and the down Renovated apartment me
Uh, you in a new whip Custom painted candy apricot I'm in an antique old four do' draggin' beat up duster With and scratches, nicks and scars
Y'all get to drink out of wine We drink out of jelly jars Down and out like four tires No machine nor dryer
a pillowcase sack and a bunch of clothes Wrapped in a on our way to the laundrymat Will I ever get paid, can I a dollar out of fifteen cents? Y'alls got it made, we broke and starvin' payin' the rent nights, alligator t-uh-tears
Mommy wit' my daddy, daddy drunk too many beers 911 Mr. Po-Po, dey happy wit' day marriage Pops tryna beat her down and make her have a My cousin shoots the needle, she be for days She on that da-ah-diesel, she gone end up AIDS
I told her, I love her, I swear I told her But you what she said to me? Everybody got a gay or at one dopefiend in they family You ain't the only one wit' a in yo' family real
The reasoned, the reasoned that seasoned Seasoned and we feel our paper won't Ohh, hey it's a long time in the bay With God on our side we have to say And through the hard times we the game Survive the
If y'all smell onions that's my potent The reason I'm is 'cause we ain't got no mo' deordorant The stock patna, we ain't got no cash stinkin' through my shoes in P.E. class I'm thriznew with briznoke, I'm about to hiznit the griznind
And if I get popped it ain't half no more it's 80 of my time But that's ah chance, that have to ah take Today my son birthday and I can't buy a cake I'm so through-a-through, I had a J.O.B. You want me to cut my perm, oh y'all gone ave to me
My fellow just got out da joint, thought he be okay But my fellow got out and got 26 times the same damn day Who wanna get on? In the the it ain't never too late Patna all we need is a piece of plywood and a milk carton
about dat shopping basket, you know I'm smart We can gone take the off that and make a go cart Yo peoples blessed you, I started a quarter ounce You came in the game wit' a silver spoon up in yo' mouth Why we gotta gamble we hurtin', you got all the bucks In the ghetto we play dominoes for ups
The reasoned the reasoned that we are and we, feel our paper won't disappear Ohh, it's a long time in the bay God on our side we have somethin to say And through the hard times we the game Survive the
You You know My just tryin' to make a way out of nowhere, you dig? You know, the trials and tribulations, you It's hard times out y'know Y'know we tryin' to do our thing
I remember when I was a young boy up things was real hard for me No food on the table, no clothes on my Lord mercy But my mother me to stay strong
Hey, been a long time in the Bay God on our side we have somethin' to say And through the hard times we survive the Survive the