Dear As we down here, struggle for as as we know In search of a paradise to touch (my ni**a J) Dreams are dreams, and reality to be the only place to go The place for us I know, try to make the of bad situations Seems to be my story Ain't no glory in pain, a story in vain And can't nobody live this for me a ride y'all, a long hard ride
Somebody break me I'm dreamin, I started as a seed the upstream, planted in the womb while screamin on the top, was my pops, my momma screamin From a single drop, is what they got Not to disrespect my peoples but my poppa was a Only plan he had for momma was to f**k her and her Even as a seed, I could see his plan for me Stranded on welfare, broken family Now what was I to be, a product of this heated Momma got pregnant, and got a piece of a*s Look how it began, gave a f**k about me Pistol in my hand, this cruel world can do me How can I Got me askin white Jesus will a ni**a or die, cause the Lord can't see us in the dark clouds of the projects, ain't no sunshine No sunny days and we play sometimes When sleepin I open my window jump to the streets and get to I can live or die, hope I get money 'fore I'm gone I'm only 19, I'm to hustle on my own on the spot where everybody and they pops tryin to slang I'd rather go to college, but this is the game stops Don't get it wrong cause it's always on, from dusk to You can buy glocks or a herringbone You can ask my man Reed Keep my nine heated all the time this is how we Meet up at the cemetary then get smoked out, pa*s the ni**a That Hennessey'll keep me keyed I go ni**az holla at me, "Keep it real G" And my til they kill me Act up if you me, I was born not to make it but I did The tribulations of a kid, still I rise
Still I (still I) I (I rise) give me to the sky (the sky) And if (and if) I die (I die) I want you to cry
[Hussein I stay as always Runnin ya bricks blitz, through ya project hallways Dumpin crews like two's, all day Secrets of war me for the worst A life that's full of cabbage or a life that's in a hearse But now my dreams it seeems though, be triple beams and things bro Diamond ring got the loot poppin out my jeans
Now I plan to my glock cocked If trouble was for me then why not? Show em what I'm made of plus on, on my block Chancellor Ave, where many turn to the street, snatchin bags We out for power, makin cash it fast it'll make me mad I'm like, pimpin My homey on the corner his gat tucked, in Youngest they buckin the life he leads the life he don't need, don't we all He tryin to rise up and we go doe, still he rise
Dreams of lost I hit the broke where the fiends get coke and I rise now I float cowards ghost Whenever we come around, I'm runnin clutchin a pound, live as sirens, duckin the I used to hustle with my moms til the sun My homey Harm time from this drug game cars, war scars, born a Outlaw Behind bars, go to sleep to see the stars Freedom is ours, we trapped on a firm block only ten learn to duck cops
In ninety-six my my plastic, pa*sion for blastin bastards No faces for open caskets, peelin ya cap Ya cowards ain't for pistol practice I send my missiles through mattress holes in your body like a cactus While me and my be boppin more greens than topic and loot to keep the seams in my jeans poppin Leavin ya spleen to up Half of you ni**az is than a Snicker Let's go to war and see who quicker and still I rise, and I rise...
Still I (still I) I (I rise) Please me to the sky (the sky) And if (and if) I die (I die) I don't you to cry
I (still I) I rise (I rise) Please me to the sky (the sky) And if (and if) I die (I die) I don't you to cry
little kid] Y'all fake All day So now I got blades, bi**h Thought you Your is rich pops, let's go..