[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 Some how made our absolution, seen human beings, and said "Morning how are Fine 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 true to my soul My pops asked son what you gonna do with flows? knowledge or talk about money,cars, and clothes? And hoes? I told em both I gotta I'm from the I to tell em what I got now I started with none But to my m-o, and i do it because If i never make it I inspire someone who does And make em think that they can cuz could try to make us think it aint no way up out the hood And we believe and grieve cuz we're naive and we don't no better So I don't write raps I focus spreading open Like Dear Destiny, I'm just to get you next to me Give me that and give u the best of me I bet you'll see nothing less from me, I think we're to be Especially cuz I'm from where your small and dreams way bigger Where the cabs don't and where the pizza don't deliver Grew up seeing bullet holes through my of opportunity no unity its all for self its either 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 swear on everything until the day I'm a goner Imma wake up and go harder than morning boners One of a kind clone him slaving 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 fuck you, fuck you I don't need new friends, I don't need loose I just new ends,rims for a new benz for my new timbs, gin paper and a pen Grins from all of my kin, proud I get it in to make it out Goals to grands, dreams to dollars, ideas to income, nigga, plans to afford dates, shared plates at Boston Market Now my bitch in red bottoms on red carpets like books out the bible that ghetto gospel Street sermons, Hood hymns, for the projects Poetic & so photogenic Leave yo hoe alone a second then be ready for wreckage Check me out at times square, with my circle Ace of out the bottle, swisher's filled with the purple The plates surf and turf, cocktail sauce for You get to them shula steaks when you become a don Was rocking Sean now its Louis V and Bally My partners long gone I do it to make em' In smiling down on me I talk to em in my dreams Used to run with Roy and Keem, young and thugging as 40 tucked in my jeans, its nothing to I on the scene, fucking clean, the fuck do you mean Do i love hoes? no I fuck em and leave You niggas cuffing em'? please, I'm one and with your queen I'm a king, Martin reincarnated And boy I got a dream, me and my all make 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 everybody wanna eat But nobody season the meat Acting like we got the same hours in a day When I was out here grinding you was out here to play I was visions, you was chasing bitches So you aint gotta question the you aint getting And if you risking don't expect to make a lot Dog how you gone if you don't ever take a shot? Imma it to the top, even if it takes a lot Boy I'm for whatever the devil cant make me stop I'm a nigga boy I came up on the block Brownsub nigga boy we came up on a
D-Mac]
Where we grind, we 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 fuck up and get on our and we rise again nigga, and then we rise again I said still I
[Outro: Dr. Angelou]
Out of the huts of history's shame, I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain, I rise
A 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.