[Intro:Dr.Maya
Everyone in the world is going to bed one 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? thanks and you?" And it's amazing Wherever that abides in the human being, 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 true to my My pops asked son you gonna do with your flows? Kick knowledge or talk money,cars, and clothes? And hoes? I told em I gotta I'm from the slums I deserve to tell em what I got now I started none But to motivate's my m-o, and i do it If i never it I might inspire someone who does And make em think that can cuz they could They try to make us think it aint no way up out the And we and grieve cuz we're naive and we don't know no better So I write raps I focus spreading open letters Like Dear Destiny, I'm just trying to get you to me Give me that and I'll u the best of me I bet you'll see nothing less me, I think we're meant to be cuz I'm from where your budget's small and dreams way bigger Where the don't come and where the pizza don't deliver Grew up seeing bullet holes through my windows of 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 and lit up that marijuana I on everything until the day that I'm a goner wake up everyday and go harder than morning boners One of a can't clone him Fuck slaving at 9 to 5's I'm to be the owner Got the persona of a loner, trust few It's a must you, cut a check or yes its fuck you, fuck you I don't need new friends, I don't 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, proud 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 bitch in red bottoms on red Verses like 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 out the bottle, swisher's filled with the purple The surf and turf, cocktail sauce for prawn You get used to them shula when you become a don Was rocking John now its Louis V and Bally My partners gone I do it to make em' happy In smiling down on me I talk to em in my dreams Used to run with Roy and Keem, and thugging as teens 40 in my jeans, its nothing to squeeze I come on the scene, clean, the fuck do you mean Do i hoes? hell no I fuck em and leave You niggas cuffing em'? please, I'm one and done your queen Nigga I'm a king, Martin And boy I got a dream, me and my team all it I'm just 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 nobody wanna the meat Acting we aint 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 bitches So you aint question the success you aint getting And if you aint risking don't expect to a lot Dog how you gone score if you don't 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 Brownsub nigga boy I 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 then we rise nigga Cuz real niggas take losses, and don't we get the up and get on our grind and we rise nigga, and then 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
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise
Into a daybreak miraculously clear, I rise the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the hope and the dream of the slave And so naturally, I go rising.