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To every girl who ain't never had a daddy and every boy who ain't never have a mother |
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To that pretty woman lost in the world who seem to think another man won't love her |
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All the homies locked up in the pen who can never seem to dodge that trouble |
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Hold your head up high cause there's better days hard times I was praying for them better ways |
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I don't know a niggas struggle but I know pain |
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Cold world but a nigga trying to maintain |
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Still praying for a little change |
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Bills due and I can't pay |
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Or when your money low when your rent late |
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And doc say granny gone after thirty days |
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You don't even know the half of my heartache |
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Too many I done lost is a heartbreak |
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And they wonder why this young nigga goin' hard I done came too far from my boulevard |
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Couple war wounds few battle scars but I'm still here living gotta thank God |
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It's a cold world it don't love you |
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Funny what a little faith and a hope do |
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Lord |
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And I know my momma praying for me |
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And my granny praying for me |
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I'm hustling for my family and that's every day and night |
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And the day I witnessed my daughter born it was the greatest day of my life my life |
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Yeah take a look in my eyes look how far a nigga came |
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You can search my soul you understand my pain |
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Nigga trust nobody and that probably never change |
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With a little bit of hope you can reach your dreams |
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For anybody who done ever had a dream you are just like me |
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Still beleving in myself even when them niggas hated and they told me that it could not be |
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You's a muhf**kin' lie motivate a nigga when you see him on the block |
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Tell me how it feel when you struggle with the bills and your momma take pills and you never seen your pop |
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That put a dent right into my childhood |
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Still praying that I want to live good |
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Selling dope get you hoes and them nice cars |
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I'm just thinking if I really should |
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Small city young nigga with a mindset |
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Ain't never trying to be another convict |
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See I can't lose and I won't quit |
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As long as God in my heart then I'm conscious |
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Remember when they said I wouldn't be shit |
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People doubted that I ever had a gift |
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Who the f**k are you to judge me nigga I will never let them sink my ship |
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Through the trials and tribulations nigga still I stand thank God in advance |
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And I know my momma praying for me |
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And my granny praying for me |
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I'm hustling for my family and that's every day and night |
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And the day I witnessed my daughter born it was the greatest day of my life my life |
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Yeah take a look in my eyes look how far a nigga came |
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You can search my soul you understand my pain |
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Nigga trust nobody and that probably never change |
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With a little bit of hope you can reach your dreams |
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Growing up I wanted to be like Jordan |
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Even though I couldn't really afford it |
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Who's to say I can't be an Obama |
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A Tiger Woods worth about a billion dollars |
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Everybody wanna sell a little coke |
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Cause it's cool to them niggas you know |
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Nobody wanna be another judge |
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Young niggas only looking for the plug hope |
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Watch your momma doing dope |
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Daddy locked in the pen |
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And you on your own |
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Gotta keep your head up |
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When you're tired and fed up |
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Better days gon' come |
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Better days gon' come |
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And I know my momma praying for me |
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And my granny praying for me |
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I'm hustling for my family and that's every day and night |
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And the day I witnessed my daughter born it was the greatest day of my life my life |
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Yeah take a look in my eyes look how far a nigga came |
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You can search my soul you understand my pain |
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Nigga trust nobody and that probably never change |
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With a little bit of hope you can reach your dreams |