They say the harder the struggle, the bigger the prize/
I be goin through mad sh**, jus conceal it wit pride/
Rent has been slippin eviction notice on my do'/
Get it by flippin the only method that I know/
Clouds in my vision heavens the limit what I heard/
Hell in my melon but I'm uplifted by kind words/
Ambition is driven by n***as livin in prison/
Servin sentences, pennin sentences, k**in our innocents/
Conditioned like militants, the feelins legitimate/
Work hard as an immigrant but we k** to jus penny pinch/
U talk but we livin it, smokin on grimace sticks/
Swear this wasn't the vision when we was buildin them pyramids/
Tut and Nefertiti couldn't see this with a genie/
Smokin reefer jus to ease our minds, to think freely/
This is a message for the adolescence stressin/
Pick up a book before you grab a weapon/