Dear As we down here, for as long as we know In search of a to touch (my ni**a Johnny J) Dreams are dreams, and reality to be the only place to go The only for us I know, try to the best of bad situations to be my life's story Ain't no in pain, a soldier's story in vain And can't nobody live life for me a ride y'all, a long hard ride
Somebody break me I'm dreamin, I started as a seed the Swimmin upstream, planted in the womb while on the top, was my pops, my screamin stop a single drop, this is what they got Not to my peoples but my poppa was a loser plan he had for momma was to f**k her and abuse her Even as a seed, I could see his plan for me Stranded on welfare, another family Now what was I to be, a product of this heated Momma got pregnant, and poppa got a of a*s Look how it began, nobody a f**k about me Pistol in my hand, this cruel can do without me How can I survive? Got me askin Jesus a ni**a live or die, cause the Lord can't see us in the dark clouds of the projects, ain't no sunshine No days and we only play sometimes When everybody's I open my window jump to the streets and get to I can live or die, hope I get some 'fore I'm gone I'm 19, I'm tryin to hustle on my own on the spot where everybody and they pops to slang rocks I'd go to college, but this is where the game stops Don't get it wrong cause always on, from dusk to dawn You can buy rocks or a herringbone You can ask my man Reed my nine heated all the time this is how we grind Meet up at the then get smoked out, pa*s the weed ni**a That Hennessey'll me keyed ni**a Everywhere I go ni**az holla at me, "Keep it G" And my reply til they me Act up if you feel me, I was born not to it but I did The of a ghetto 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 sharp as Runnin ya bricks blitz, through ya project hallways Dumpin crews like two's, all day Secrets of war prepare me for the A life that's lavish of cabbage or a life that's in a hearse But now my dreams it seeems though, be placin beams and things bro Diamond ring got the loot poppin out my jeans
Now I plan to my glock cocked If trouble was searchin for me why not? Show em what I'm made of plus raised on, on my Chancellor Ave, where many turn to the street, thugs snatchin We out for power, cash it wasn't fast it'll make me mad I'm like, pimpin My homey on the with his gat tucked, in Youngest they buckin somethin the life he the he don't need, don't we all know He to rise up and we just go doe, still he rise
Dreams of hope I hit the strip where the fiends get coke and still I rise now I float ghost we come around, I'm runnin down clutchin a pound, live as sirens, the sound I used to hustle with my til the sun came My homey Harm doin from this drug game cars, war scars, born a Outlaw Behind bars, go to just to see the stars Freedom is ours, though we trapped on a block Crackheads only ten learn to duck
In ninety-six my my plastic, pa*sion for blastin bastards No for open caskets, peelin ya cap backwards Ya cowards prepared for pistol practice I send my through your mattress Leavin in your body like a cactus While me and my crew be boppin more than topic and loot to keep the seams in my jeans poppin Leavin ya spleen to up Half of you ni**az is softer than a Let's go to war and see who draw 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 want 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
[some kid] Y'all ni**az All day So now I got blades, bi**h you knew Your mouth is pops, let's go..