[Intro:Dr.Maya
Everyone in the world is going to bed one night or with fear or pain or loss Or disappointment, and yet each of us has arisen how made our absolution, seen other human beings, and said "Morning how are you? Fine thanks and you?" And it's 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
[Verse 1:
Through the of the concrete grew a rose Blossoming every moment I stay to my soul My pops asked son what you do with your flows? Kick knowledge or talk money,cars, and clothes? And hoes? I told em both I gotta I'm from the I deserve to tell em what I got now I with none But to my m-o, and i do it because If i never it I might inspire someone who does And make em that they can cuz they could They try to make us it aint no way up out the hood And we and grieve cuz we're naive and we don't know no better So I write raps I focus spreading open letters Dear Destiny, I'm just trying to get you next to me Give me that and give u the best of me I bet you'll see less from me, I think we're meant to be Especially cuz I'm from where your budget's and dreams way bigger Where the cabs don't come and where the pizza deliver Grew up seeing holes through my windows of opportunity Aint no unity its all for self its you or me So I'm doing me but I do it for my corner Where I on those coronas and lit up that marijuana I on everything until the day that I'm a goner Imma wake up everyday and go harder morning boners One of a kind clone him Fuck at 9 to 5's I'm striving to be the owner Got the persona of a loner, only few It's a must you, cut a check or yes its you, yeah fuck you I don't need new friends, I don't need loose 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, ideas to income, nigga, plans to Couldn't dates, shared plates at Boston Market Now my bottom bitch in red bottoms on red Verses like out the bible that ghetto gospel Street sermons, Hood hymns, for the projects Poetic & so photogenic Leave yo hoe alone a second then be for home wreckage Check me out at times square, with my circle Ace of spades out the bottle, swisher's with the purple The plates surf and turf, sauce for prawn You get used to shula steaks when you become a don Was rocking John now its Louis V and Bally My partners long gone I do it to em' happy In smiling down on me I talk to em in my dreams Used to run with Roy and Keem, and thugging as teens 40 tucked in my jeans, its nothing to I on the scene, fucking clean, the fuck do you mean Do i love hoes? hell no I em and leave You niggas cuffing em'? please, I'm one and done your queen I'm a king, Martin reincarnated And boy I got a dream, me and my team all it I'm just trying to do my thing, and some of yall Waiting for my downfall I use yall as Motivate me in this world where it seems wanna eat But nobody wanna the meat Acting like we aint got the same in a day When I was out grinding you was out here trying to play I was making visions, you was chasing So you aint question the success you aint getting And if you aint risking don't to make a lot Dog how you gone score if you ever take a shot? Imma it to the top, even if it takes a lot Boy I'm ready for whatever the devil cant make me I'm a Brownsub nigga boy I came up on the nigga boy we came up on a block
[Hook:
we grind, we ball we rise, we and then we rise again nigga, and then we rise nigga Cuz real niggas take losses, and don't we get the fuck up and get on our and we rise again nigga, and we rise again nigga I said I rise
[Outro: Dr. Maya
Out of the huts of history's shame, I rise
Up from a past that's 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.