| Chorus:
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| Tell me what do you see
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| When you looking at me
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| (woooahhhh)
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| On a mission to be
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| What I’m destined to be
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| (woooahhhh)
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| I done been through the pain and the sorrow
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| The struggle is nothing but love (nothing but love)
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| I’m a soldier, a rider, a ghetto survivor
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| And all the above
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| All the above (x7)
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| Verse 1:
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| Listen
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| Really what do you see
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| When you looking at me?
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| See me come up from nothing
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| To me living my dreams
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| I done been to the bottom
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| I done suffered a lot
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| I deserve to be rich
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| Headed straight to the top
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| Look how I ride for the block
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| Look how I rep for the hood
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| I get nothing but love now
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| When I come through the hood
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| Getting this fortune and fame
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| Money make all of us change
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| The new benz is all white
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| Call it John McCain
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| How the hell could you stop me?
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| Why in the world would you try?
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| I go hard forever
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| That’s just how I’m designed
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| That’s just how I was built
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| See the look in my eyes?
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| You take all of this from me
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| And I’m still gon' survive
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| You get truth from me
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| But these rappers gon' lie
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| I’m a part of these streets
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| Till the day that I die
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| I wave hi to the haters
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| Mad that I finally done made it
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| Take a look and you can tell
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| That I’m destined for greatness
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| Tell me what do you see
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| When you looking at me
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| (woooahhhh)
|
| On a mission to be
|
| What I’m destined to be
|
| (woooahhhh)
|
| I done been through the pain and the sorrow
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| The struggle is nothing but love (nothing but love)
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| I’m a soldier, a rider, a ghetto survivor
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| And all the above
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| All the above (x7)
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| Verse 2:
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| It’s easy to hate
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| It’s harder to love me
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| Ya’ll don’t understand
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| Ya’ll quickly to judge me
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| Put your foot in my Nikes
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| Picture you livin' my life
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| Picture you stuck in a cell
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| Picture you wasting your life
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| Picture you facing a charge
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| Picture you beating the odds
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| Picture you willing to bleed
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| Picture you wearing the scar
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| Thank you for making me struggle
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| Thank you for making me grind
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| I perfected my hustle
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| Tell me the world ain’t mine
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| You’ve been seein' me lately
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| I’m a miracle baby
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| I refuse to lose
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| This what the ghetto done made me
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| I put that on my father
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| Tryna hope for tomorrow
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| When I think that I can’t
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| I envision Obama
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| I envision the diamonds
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| I envision Ferraris
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| If the world was perfect
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| All my niggas behind me
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| Ain’t you happy I made it?
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| That I’m making a statement?
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| Take a look and you can tell
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| That I’m destined for greatness
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| Verse 3:
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| Now if im up in the spot (spot)
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| Or if im out on the block (block)
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| I hustle hard cause it’s all the same
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| And you know that grind don’t stop
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| Just 'cause I rose to the top
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| And everybody knows my name
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| Still grindin (still grindin)
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| Still hustlin (still hustlin)
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| No more pain (no more pain)
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| No more sufferin (no more sufferin)
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| For my ladies and my shorties and my thugs
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| Keep that task, and the shine, and the love
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| All the above (x6) |