[00:14.200]Started off in the streets
[00:17.340]We would take collection from the fiends
[00:20.780]People dyin' all around me
[00:23.520]So I gave you my testimony
[00:27.020]We were down from the beginnin'
[00:30.500]When the world wasn't listenin'
[00:33.990]Now that I got your attention
[00:37.120]Let us end with the benediction
[00:39.680]We are gathered here today
[00:42.090]Paying our respects to bein' broke, hope he's in a better place
[00:46.020]Cause life out here ain't sweet, oh no
[00:48.870]I would close my eyes to sleep but didn't dream no more
[00:52.180]So I had to make a way for my home, you know
[00:55.400]Now I'm in a place where I ain't gotta scheme no more
[00:58.790]The good life, I'm done with the hood life
[01:01.660]I did what I could didn't always do what I should and I was misunderstood
[01:06.580]So many nights I tried
[01:09.380]To hide how I felt, I would cry inside
[01:12.200]And I ran through the streets till my feet got tired
[01:15.460]Cause I ain't wanna have my shoes on them power lines
[01:18.690]But I made it, and it made me
[01:21.520]I know I did wrong, I pray to God he forgave me
[01:24.590]Cause I made it, it didn't kill me
[01:28.060]So it made me stronger, I pray to God that you feel me, that you feel me...
[01:33.680]Started off in the streets
[01:36.590]We would take collection from the fiends
[01:39.950]People dyin' all around me
[01:42.710]So I gave you my testimony
[01:46.390]We were down from the beginnin'
[01:49.840]When the world wasn't listenin'
[01:53.100]Now that I got your attention
[01:56.320]Let us end with the benediction
[01:58.770]Our father who art in heaven
[02:00.890]I pray you free me from my demons and keep me level
[02:04.250]I know you kept my out of prison where I was headin'
[02:07.150]When I heard someone killed my brother, one-eighty-seven
[02:10.410]I hope he made it to your presence, for me he was a blessin'
[02:14.040]At least I know he's restin' and he ain't out here stressin'
[02:17.480]Tryna get to the good life, and out of this hood life
[02:20.750]I pray that my step-pops lay off that crack pipe
[02:24.140]So mama could sleep at night, I know it's been hard on her
[02:27.630]I was ripping through the streets, it was hard for her
[02:31.030]Now I'm up in hotels on the ocean shore
[02:34.250]When I was sleepin' on the floor at the corner store
[02:38.070]But I made it, and it made me
[02:40.690]I know I did wrong, I pray to God he forgave me
[02:43.680]Cause I made it, it didn't kill me
[02:47.070]So it made me stronger, I pray to God that you feel me, that you feel me...
[02:52.730]Started off in the streets
[02:55.670]We would take collection from the fiends
[02:59.010]People dyin' all around me
[03:01.820]So I gave you my testimony
[03:05.590]We were down from the beginnin'
[03:08.920]When the world wasn't listenin'
[03:12.260]Now that I got your attention
[03:15.480]Let us end with the benediction
[03:18.740]Bottle after bottle, snatching Belaire out the bucket
[03:21.030]Rightin' all my wrongs for these homies out here thuggin'
[03:24.220]Pray for benediction, pretty women on my premise
[03:26.630]Condo out in Cabo, screaming "GABOS" to my nemesis
[03:28.910]Gold around my neck I'm ballin' for these final minutes
[03:34.050]Nothing lasts forever, for these sins I seek repentance
[03:37.400]Shots fired, another gone, I feel that man's pain
[03:40.570]Daddy sat me down and said: "that came with the game"
[03:44.060]Shake my head, roll up the window, turnin' up the music
[03:46.990]So much anger in these songs for these soldiers that we losin'
[03:50.370]A mastermind is one who's feedin' others off his talent
[03:53.830]I owe it to my city but it's time I pay my balance
[04:00.420]I'm in Holyfield's estate, I started with a pallet
[04:00.700]I made my first tape, I gave that shit to Khaled
[04:03.670]Thankful for my supporters, everyone that ever bought us
[04:05.940]Grateful for every lesson these by any streets taught us
[04:12.280]Started off in the streets
[04:14.840]We would take collection from the fiends
[04:17.780]People dyin' all around me
[04:20.950]So I gave you my testimony
[04:24.020]We were down from the beginnin'
[04:28.080]When the world wasn't listenin'
[04:31.280]Now that I got your attention
[04:34.680]Let us end with the benediction
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