| I used to wait around for payday until I got fired
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| Couldn’t get rehired early I retired
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| Only to realize it could be worse
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| What if I couldn’t spit this verse?
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| What if I was on my way to my funeral in a herse?
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| Getting buried next to my co d in the dirt
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| What if it was never rap never a beat?
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| That means I’ll never move my feet
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| What will inspire me?
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| No music is no life no way of expression
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| Through my depression I’m still counting all my blessings
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| Destiny it has to be because its Gods intent
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| If its meant to be I’m behind it 100 percent
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| What if I was never born never though of
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| What if I never saw Earth never saw love?
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| I take it day by day loving my people
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| Huggin the block hustling for the root of all evil
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| I had to stop putting me first
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| I had to realize yo this could be worse
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| I could be dead or in jail
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| Uneducated and frail
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| Another endangered black male
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| I had to stop putting me first
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| I had to realize yo this could be worse
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| There is really no one to blame
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| And we can’t complain maintain
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| Cause you control change
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| What if your family was plagued with cancer and A.I.D.S?
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| And someone put a number on you days
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| Three uncles in three years that’s serious
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| Cause that’s three brothers that didn’t out live their own mother
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| Or what if you where born innocent, yet torn with sickness
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| By your own mother’s dumb decisions
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| I’ve witnessed niggas complain about hustling and things
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| And they don’t understand the nature of the game
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| It could be worse than pumpin on the block with rocks
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| Runnin from cops you could get locked
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| Chillin in Comstock for a crime you didn’t commit
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| Rather you didn’t pull the trigger
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| Cause of your record they figure to put it on you nigga
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| I seen it all cause I’m young and wise, yet old
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| There are newborn babies who get abandoned in the cold
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| Sistas without a child cause children they can’t bear
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| Homeless people on my street screamin it ain’t fair
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| I had to stop putting me first
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| I had to realize yo this could be worse
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| I could be dead or in jail
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| Uneducated and frail
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| Another endangered black male
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| I had to stop putting me first
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| I had to realize yo this could be worse
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| There is really no one to blame
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| And we can’t complain maintain
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| Cause you control change
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| I sit back and reflect and thank God that I’m healthy
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| And my son was born strong so I’m wealthy
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| I want to reach out to some of those who felt me
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| I’m just frustrated with what rappers tell me
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| On records constantly whining about grindin
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| They should be thankful for the chance to be rhyming
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| Cause its kids out there with just one wish
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| Some people still ain’t free put up one fist
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| Because the real
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| Is this country let us rob and steal hustle this crill
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| And con people out of their scrill
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| In some places looking at a man’s wife a get you killed
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| So less blood spilled no you thugs feel lucky
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| Opportunity is infinite
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| Look around you ever wonder why you see so many businesses
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| So I excepted that it could be first and put my fam first
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| So my life has worth
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| I had to stop putting me first
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| I had to realize yo this could be worse
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| I could be dead or in jail
|
| Uneducated and frail
|
| Another endangered black male
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| I had to stop putting me first
|
| I had to realize yo this could be worse
|
| There is really no one to blame
|
| And we can’t complain maintain
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| Cause you control change
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| I had to stop putting me first
|
| I had to realize yo this could be worse
|
| I could be dead or in jail
|
| Uneducated and frail
|
| Another endangered black male
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| I had to stop putting me first
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| I had to realize yo this could be worse
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| There is really no one to blame
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| And we can’t complain maintain
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| Cause you control change |