[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 other beings, and said "Morning how are Fine thanks and you?" And it's amazing Wherever that abides in the human being, there is the 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 grew a rose Blossoming every moment I stay to my soul My pops asked son you gonna do with your flows? knowledge or talk about money,cars, and clothes? And I told em both I gotta I'm from the slums I deserve to tell em what I got now I started 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 us think 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 don't write raps I focus spreading open Like Dear Destiny, I'm just trying to get you to me me that and I'll give 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 your budget's small and dreams way bigger Where the cabs come and where the pizza don't deliver Grew up seeing bullet holes through my of opportunity Aint no unity its all for self its you or me So I'm doing me but I still do it for my I sipped on those coronas and lit up that marijuana I swear on everything the day that 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 striving to be the Got the persona of a loner, 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 new ends,rims for a new benz for my new timbs, gin paper and a pen Grins from all of my kin, that I get it in to make it out to grands, dreams to dollars, ideas to income, nigga, plans to prophet Couldn't afford dates, shared at Boston Market Now my bottom bitch in red on red carpets Verses books out the bible that ghetto gospel Street sermons, hymns, Proverbs for the projects & image so photogenic Leave yo hoe alone a second then be ready for home Check me out at times square, with my circle Ace of spades out the bottle, swisher's filled with the The plates surf and turf, cocktail sauce for You get used to them steaks when you become a don Was Sean John now its Louis V and Bally My long gone I do it to make em' happy In heaven smiling down on me I talk to em in my to run with Roy and Keem, young and thugging as teens 40 tucked in my jeans, its to squeeze I on the scene, fucking 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 Nigga I'm a king, reincarnated And boy I got a dream, me and my team all it I'm just trying to do my thing, and some of hating Waiting for my downfall I use as motivation me in this world where it seems everybody wanna eat But nobody wanna season the Acting like we got the same hours in a day When I was out here grinding you was out here trying to I was making visions, you was bitches So you aint gotta question the success you aint And if you aint don't expect to make a lot Dog how you gone if you don't ever take a shot? Imma make it to the top, if it takes a lot Boy I'm ready for whatever the devil cant make me I'm a nigga boy I came up on the block Brownsub nigga boy we came up on a
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Where we grind, we we rise, we and then we rise again nigga, and then we rise nigga Cuz real take 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 still I rise
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 bear in the tide
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I
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.