[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 human beings, and said "Morning how are you? Fine thanks and you?" And it's Wherever that abides in the human being, there is the 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 son what you gonna do with your flows? knowledge or talk about money,cars, and clothes? And hoes? I told em I gotta 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 it I might inspire someone who does And em think that they can cuz they could They try to make us it aint no way up out the hood And we believe and grieve cuz we're naive and we know no better So I write raps I focus spreading open letters Like Destiny, I'm just trying to get you next 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 where your budget's and dreams way bigger Where the cabs don't and where the pizza don't deliver Grew up seeing holes through my windows of opportunity Aint no its all for self its either you or me So I'm doing me but I do it for my corner Where I sipped on those coronas and lit up marijuana I swear on until 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 to be the owner Got the of a loner, only trust 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 ends I need 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, to income, nigga, plans to prophet Couldn't dates, shared plates at Boston Market Now my bottom bitch in red on red carpets Verses like books out the bible that ghetto Street sermons, hymns, Proverbs for the projects Poetic & so photogenic Leave yo hoe a second then be ready 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 surf and turf, cocktail sauce for You get used to shula steaks when you become a don Was rocking 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 Used to run with Roy and Keem, young and as teens 40 in my jeans, its nothing to squeeze I come on the scene, clean, the fuck do you mean Do i love hoes? hell no I em and leave You niggas cuffing 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 just trying to do my thing, and of yall hating Waiting for my I use yall as motivation Motivate me in 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 you was out here trying to play I was making visions, you was chasing So you aint gotta question the success you getting And if you aint don't expect to make a lot Dog how you gone score if you don't ever take a Imma make it to the top, if it takes a lot Boy I'm ready for whatever the cant make me stop I'm a nigga boy I came up on the block Brownsub nigga boy we up on a block
D-Mac]
Where we grind, we we rise, we and then we again nigga, and then we rise again nigga Cuz real take losses, and don't whine we get the up and get on our grind and we rise again nigga, and we rise again nigga 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 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.