[Intro:Dr.Maya
in the world 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, other human beings, and said "Morning how are you? Fine and you?" And it's amazing that abides in the human being, there is the nobleness of the human spirit Despite it all, black and white, Asian, Spanish, American, pretty, plain, thin, fat Vow to celibate...we
[Verse 1:
Through the cracks of the grew a rose Blossoming every moment I stay to my soul 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 I'm from the slums I deserve to tell em I got now I started with none But to motivate's my m-o, and i do it If i never make it I might inspire someone who And make em think that can cuz they could They try to make us think it 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 open letters Like Destiny, I'm just trying to get you next to me Give me that and I'll u the best of me I bet you'll see nothing from me, I think we're meant to be Especially cuz I'm from where your budget's small and way bigger Where the cabs don't and where the pizza don't deliver Grew up seeing bullet holes my windows of opportunity Aint no unity its all for its either you or me So I'm me but I still do it for my corner I sipped 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 than morning One of a can't clone him slaving at 9 to 5's I'm striving to be the owner Got the of a loner, only trust 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 ends I just need new ends,rims for a new Brims for my new timbs, gin and a pen Grins from all of my kin, 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 books out the bible ghetto gospel Street sermons, Hood hymns, Proverbs for the & image so photogenic Leave yo hoe alone a second then be for home wreckage Check me out at times square, chilling with my Ace of spades out the bottle, swisher's filled the purple The plates and turf, cocktail 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 gone I do it to make em' In heaven smiling on me I talk to em in my dreams Used to run Roy and Keem, young and thugging as teens 40 tucked in my jeans, its to squeeze I come on the scene, clean, the fuck do you mean Do i love hoes? 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 downfall I use yall as Motivate me in this world where it seems wanna eat But wanna season the meat Acting like we got the same hours in a day When I was out here grinding you was out trying to play I was making visions, you was chasing So you gotta question the success you aint getting And if you aint risking don't expect to a lot Dog how you score if you don't ever take a shot? Imma make it to the top, even if it a lot Boy I'm ready for whatever the devil cant me stop I'm a nigga boy I came up on the block Brownsub boy we came up on a block
[Hook:
we grind, we ball we rise, we and we rise 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 rise again nigga, and then we rise 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.