| I dealt with death in my family, I thought my heart would never heal | 
| When I was young, I never understood the pressure paying bills | 
| I was lost and I was confused when my daddy disappeared | 
| If I had to raise my kids by myself, I wonder how that would feel | 
| I could they lay my Auntie off after 27 years | 
| She got four kids and a grand-baby she try to take care | 
| My lil' niece 13, got her on birth control pills | 
| There are some mornings I wake up feel like a slave in the fields | 
| Started feeling like Pac 'cause I done shed so many tears | 
| This pressure on me still, I hold my head in the air | 
| I refuse to let it break me 'cause the world don’t give a damn | 
| You won’t ever hear me complain even though it ain’t fair | 
| Your mistakes in this world is another person’s smile | 
| I may fall and I may… but I will never lay down | 
| Dig deep in my soul and pick my soul up off the ground | 
| 'Fore I let myself sink I’m a turn it all around | 
| I gotta keep pushing, I gotta keep pushing | 
| I gotta keep pushing, I gotta keep pushing | 
| I can’t look back, too many problems in my past | 
| I can’t stand still 'cause my life ain’t beaten path | 
| I gotta keep pushing, I gotta keep pushing | 
| I gotta keep pushing, I gotta keep pushing | 
| I often ask the question why is God punishing me | 
| He try to make me strong but that’s all that, it can’t be | 
| I gotta keep pushing, I gotta keep pushing | 
| I gotta keep pushing, I gotta keep pushing | 
| I gotta keep pushing, I gotta keep pushing | 
| I gotta keep pushing, I gotta keep pushing | 
| I was born in the hood, I was born to be a fighter | 
| Won’t care about being perfect, cause it won’t make you wiser | 
| Some things I could control, some things weren’t my fault | 
| Ain’t ever had regrets, even after I took the loss | 
| I never fear a human, my only fear is God | 
| Cause I don’t know when he coming, and that’s a scary thought | 
| Or know my future whole, or when my last supper | 
| But one thing that I do know, when I die, I’m a die hustler |