[Intro:Dr.Maya
Everyone in the is going to bed one night or another with fear or pain or loss Or disappointment, and yet each of us has awaken Some how made our absolution, seen other human beings, and "Morning how are you? thanks and you?" And it's amazing that abides in the human being, there is the nobleness of the human spirit Despite it all, 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 moment I stay true to my soul My pops asked son what you gonna do with flows? Kick knowledge or talk money,cars, and clothes? And hoes? I told em both I gotta I'm the slums I deserve to em what I got now I started 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 think that they can cuz they They try to make us think it no way up out the hood And we believe and grieve cuz we're naive and we know no better So I don't write raps I focus spreading letters Like Dear Destiny, I'm trying to get you next to me Give me that and I'll 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 budget's small and dreams way bigger Where the don't come and where the pizza don't deliver 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 those coronas and lit up marijuana I swear on everything until the day I'm a goner Imma wake up everyday and go than morning boners One of a kind can't him Fuck slaving at 9 to 5's I'm to be the owner Got the persona of a loner, only few It's a you, cut a check or yes its fuck you, yeah 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 that I get it in to it out Goals to grands, to dollars, ideas to income, nigga, plans to prophet afford dates, shared plates at Boston Market Now my bottom bitch in red on red carpets Verses like books out the bible that 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 square, chilling with my circle Ace of spades out the bottle, swisher's filled the purple The plates surf and turf, sauce for prawn You get to them shula steaks when you become a don Was rocking Sean now its Louis V and Bally My partners long I do it to make em' happy In heaven down on me I talk to em in my dreams Used to run with Roy and Keem, young and as teens 40 tucked in my jeans, its to squeeze I on the scene, fucking clean, the fuck do you mean Do i hoes? hell no I fuck em and leave You cuffing 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 team all it I'm just trying to do my thing, and some of yall Waiting for my I use yall as motivation Motivate me in this where it seems everybody wanna eat But nobody season the meat Acting like we aint got the hours 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 don't expect to make a lot Dog how you score if you don't ever take a shot? Imma make it to the top, 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
[Hook:
Where we grind, we we rise, we and we rise again nigga, and then we rise again nigga Cuz real niggas take losses, and don't we get the up and get on our grind and we rise again nigga, and then we again nigga I said still I
Dr. Maya Angelou]
Out of the huts of history's shame, I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain, I rise
A black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I 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.