I'ma take you to day one, livin' in this New York slum It's deaf to the dumb, only break bread with left at 15, had no American dreams To day, I'm sellin' to my cousin who's a fiend
No one to guide me but my older Little did we know the dirt we did back on my mother But didn't care back then, why she left like that Now my parents became the street and it's best like
nights I pray to God and ask Him to pull my cord 'Cuz times is hard the [Incomprehensible] street'll leave you scarred wise with no respect for authority and shit A chronic hustler of crack, a typical
by Madu, who strung out on a glass dick But now and then I blessed her with a hit So she don't have to trick, it's prevalent amongst today Hustle krills, stack dough and thing's okay
the emancipation proclamation Under the self devised of self preservation and starvation It's the emancipation Under the self devised guidelines of self and starvation
My life in this world wasn't about diamonds and It was rough up around the boys and girls After Daddy left, shit was a mess, stressed But I give her an award, damn, she tried her best
Holdin' the household, barely had money to fold time, cherished our little shit like gold I can't front, was still if, we cared for me But him and Mommy up was like a nightmare to me
Yo, is for the younger fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers Success is if it ain't influential to others We gotta make the best out of this terrible If not for us, for the younger
We gotta break the and deal with the pain For all our people was slayed in vain For all our peoples that was framed For all our that's livin' the name
It's the proclamation Under the self devised of self preservation and starvation the emancipation proclamation Under the self devised of self preservation and starvation
Let me show, I gotta L.O.D., they put me under the wing And then I teamed up the most beautiful thing In the world, L.O.D. we all, we got I'ma fans and my mans it like it or not
I know it hurts, havin' to do everyday Police all my back, feel like bustin' them jerks When I'm on my road to the riches, I away from snitches And them bitches and keep my on business
Life was so I became aggressive like a pit The only I felt relaxed was when the blunt was lit Thinkin' me and my team can be tight the Gambino in the hustle scene, respected like Nino
It gets deeper the words of Proverbs New emerge as I cop the squat on the curb Thinkin' the strengthen my brain like spinach And heavy shine, flooded ice might boost my self image
Stick 'em, my life is so real, it Like I saw my pops bein' driven off in a hearse Like when I saw my bein' driven off in a hearse Like in school the roach crawl out my shirt
Like on Thanksgiving when we got free food from the Back then it was DJ Red Alert and Kool Rockin' pinstripe Lee's and in Tigra then L.O.D. was puttin' in work
From the to the grave We all in the struggle, we gon' struggle, we gon' to stay alive All my real people know what I'm about Watch each backs Word up, my is nothin' without my niggas, word up