1] I try to always buy final from the F.O.I Even though not what Islam always signify Y'all love the struggle in 'em They would get on their and shine shoes 'fore ever let the drugs afflict 'em Makin and fuckin with McDonald's Nickel and dime broke, but dignified with high Some people the weight of the median, make it look easy Even though they walkin the tight Immigrants, deep in one bedroom I'm too cool, I at 'em like fools Those combine forces and put the resources And guess who the new of the corner store is Shit, what's me from doin that? I probably could drug smugglers approve of that if one dime sack in the time can climax Into a billion dollar industry, then look at my But I'm a dreamer in ways I if you believe in God that you believe in brighter days my son's heartbeat in my sleep I'ma walk the Planet Earth with his name carved in my feet like
x2] Children growin, producin Men go workin, but the use When the real strive hard and about the rent And can still die poor and in debt without a
2] Born again christian from the suburbs Tryin to save on Broadway, they got some nerve Comin here unaware that the one's with no material Sometimes most spirits rifts Lazyness got me spare the stand and what was that That can't hold me back, my man told me that "Harlem got all that on a scale" When bullets in the sandboxes every bid is real
I see children growin up within a wicked Smilin I wanna kiss 'em, I see Muhammad in 'em Poverty's trickin people from my And hands to world's most creative I've seen both sides of the Picket a chain link and we ain't all the same thing but They teens got so by me They try to walk, talk, and dress like me We the world's imagination I used to idolize athletes and they never let the situation capture 'em System gave 'em lemons, made lemonade and sold it to 'em
x2] Children growin, women Men go workin, but the use When the real strive hard and stress the rent And can still die and in debt without a cent
3] Marvin said it best "This ain't livin" No matter your the earth keep spinnin And the sun shinin, babies keep cryin Old folks in beats within you put ya chiming And here I am, still class America room, same view, different cast of characters Regina got arrested as a late Couldn't trick, got evicted, lost her section aid Onward goes my neighbourhood's door A gang of rental properties owns at all I that's why we call it a hood Nobody stays as long as it takes to neighbour
x2] Children growin, producin Men go workin, but the use When the strive hard and stress about the rent And can still die poor and in without a cent