[Intro:Dr.Maya
Everyone in the world is to bed one night or another with fear or pain or loss Or disappointment, and yet each of us has arisen 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 human being, there is the 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 cracks of the concrete a rose Blossoming every moment I stay true to my My asked son what you gonna do with your flows? Kick or talk about money,cars, and clothes? And hoes? I em both I gotta I'm from the slums I deserve to tell em what I got now I started with But to my m-o, and i do it because If i never make it I might inspire someone who And make em think that they can cuz could They try to us think it aint no way up out the hood And we believe and grieve cuz we're and we don't know no better So I don't write I focus spreading open letters Like Dear Destiny, I'm trying to get you next to me Give me and I'll give u the best of me I bet see nothing less from me, I think we're meant to be Especially cuz I'm from where your 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 doing me but I still do it for my Where I sipped on coronas and lit up that marijuana I swear on until the day that I'm a goner Imma wake up everyday and go harder than 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 or yes its fuck you, yeah fuck you I don't new friends, I don't need loose 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 Goals to grands, dreams to dollars, ideas to income, nigga, to prophet Couldn't afford dates, shared plates at Boston Now my bottom bitch in red on red carpets like books out the bible that ghetto gospel Street sermons, Hood hymns, Proverbs for the Poetic & so photogenic Leave yo hoe a second then be ready for home wreckage Check me out at times square, with my circle Ace of out the bottle, swisher's filled with the purple The plates and turf, cocktail sauce for prawn You get used to them shula steaks you become a don Was rocking Sean John now its Louis V and 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 with Roy and Keem, young and 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? no I fuck em and leave You niggas cuffing em'? please, I'm one and with your queen Nigga I'm a king, 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 for my downfall I use yall as motivation Motivate me in world 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 here grinding you was out here to play I was making visions, you was bitches So you gotta 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 ready for whatever the devil make me stop I'm a nigga boy I came up on the block Brownsub boy we came up on a block
D-Mac]
Where we grind, we we rise, we and then we rise again nigga, and 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 we rise again nigga 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.