[Intro:Dr.Maya
Everyone in the world is going to bed one night or another with or pain or loss Or disappointment, and yet each of us has awaken how made our absolution, seen other human beings, and said "Morning how are you? thanks and you?" And it's amazing Wherever that abides in the being, there is the nobleness of the human spirit it all, black and white, Asian, Spanish, Native American, pretty, plain, thin, fat Vow to celibate...we
1: D-Mac]
Through the cracks of the concrete a rose Blossoming every moment I stay true to my My pops asked son what you gonna do with flows? Kick knowledge or about money,cars, and clothes? And hoes? I told em both I gotta I'm the slums I deserve to tell em what I got now I with none But to motivate's my m-o, and i do it If i never make it I might someone who does And em think that they can cuz they could try to make us think it aint no way up out the hood And we believe and cuz we're naive and we don't know no better So I don't write raps I spreading open letters Dear Destiny, I'm just trying to get you next to me Give me that and I'll give u the of me I bet you'll see nothing less me, I think we're meant to be cuz I'm from where your budget's small and dreams way bigger Where the cabs don't come and where the pizza don't Grew up seeing bullet holes my windows of opportunity no unity its all for self its either you or me So I'm me but I still do it for my corner Where I sipped on coronas and lit up that marijuana I swear on everything until the day I'm a goner Imma wake up everyday and go harder than morning One of a kind can't him Fuck slaving at 9 to 5's I'm striving to be the Got the of a loner, only trust few It's a must you, cut a check or yes its fuck you, fuck you I don't need new friends, I need loose ends I just new ends,rims for a new benz Brims for my new timbs, gin and a pen Grins all of my kin, proud that I get it in to make it out Goals to grands, dreams to dollars, to income, nigga, plans to prophet afford dates, shared plates at Boston Market Now my bottom in red bottoms on red carpets Verses like out the bible that ghetto gospel sermons, Hood hymns, Proverbs for the projects Poetic & so photogenic Leave yo hoe a second then be ready for home wreckage Check me out at times square, chilling with my Ace of spades out the bottle, filled with the purple The plates and turf, cocktail sauce for prawn You get used to them shula steaks you become a don Was Sean John now its Louis V and Bally My partners long I do it to make em' happy In heaven smiling on me I talk to em in my dreams Used to run Roy and Keem, young and thugging as teens 40 in my jeans, its nothing to squeeze I come on the scene, clean, the fuck do you mean Do i love hell no I fuck em and leave You niggas em'? please, I'm one and done with your queen I'm a king, Martin reincarnated And boy I got a dream, me and my all make it I'm trying to do my thing, and some of yall hating Waiting for my I use yall as motivation Motivate me in this world it seems everybody wanna eat But nobody wanna season the Acting like we aint got the hours in a day When I was out here you was out here trying to play I was making visions, you was bitches So you aint gotta the success you aint getting And if you aint risking don't expect to a lot Dog how you gone score if you don't ever take a make it to the top, even if it takes a lot Boy I'm ready for whatever the devil cant me stop I'm a Brownsub nigga boy I came up on the Brownsub boy we came up on a block
[Hook:
we grind, we ball we rise, we and then we again nigga, and then we rise again nigga Cuz real niggas losses, and don't whine we get the up and get on our grind and we again nigga, and then we rise again nigga I said I rise
Dr. Maya Angelou]
Out of the huts of history's shame, I
Up from a past that's rooted in pain, I rise
A black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise
Into a daybreak miraculously clear, I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the hope and the dream of the slave And so naturally, I go rising.