[Intro]
When I do better, my family does better
My friends do better, we feed off each other
But that don't mean the hood doing better
Or the world doing better
My people need help
My people need hope
I done well for myself but I'm never too blind to see the struggle
I know how they feel, they starving
And desperate times calls for desperate measures
I was there yesterday
And if something goes wrong, I can be there tomorrow
[Verse 1]
From that one bedroom apartment
All the way to Paris where your n***a went
Just to meet some hoes with French benefits
Your n***a in his prime, I'm an optimist
Now watch me kick these rhymes like a hockey disc
Or soccer, b**h, said I wouldn't shine, did the opposite
And Baltimore they loving me
Brooklyn said they loving me
And Hollywood I'm popping like some bubbly
[Bridge]
Well, dammit mama your same boy with grammar problems
Taking that same grammar to the Grammy's
Isn't it ironic?
My phonics got the whole hood thinking I'm bionic
Let me be honest
You can't be Geppetto with no wood
Promise the hood and the ghetto that I return like the Jedi
Visine on hand, in case I catch a red-eye
My quote just went up, the flows have gotten better
Don't forget la familia, we started this together
[Hook] (x2)
They say we won't make it
But we going be okay
Gotta let them know they can't break us
And we going be okay
[Verse 2]
Yeah and if this was as easy as it seems
Everybody would be busting out the seams
The older folks who quit and gave up on their dreams
Can't afford to find the things so they trying to warn the teens
But they ain't listening
Nah, they ain't disciplined
Rather be in the kitchen, Malcolm X by any means
The internet they loving me
The TV screen they loving me
But the world is yet to discover me, y'all
No second guessing it to anyone who has to question it
You're prisoners so get behind these bars that I was blessed with
This for my single moms living month-to-month
This is for team struggle living blunt-to-blunt
[Bridge]
[Hook] (x2)
[Outro]
Smile for me, baby
We going be all right
We going lead the fight