Double O - Day by Day lyrics

n***as want me to help 'em I can't help myself Want me to support them I can't support myself Want me to know you I barely know myself I might got a little fame I ain't got no wealth I'm just one man and one sinner Living on big gulps and healthy choice dinners You can tell that I'm stressed Hear it in my voice But this is my life man Rapping is my choice And I bet you that I make it Put my life on it Unborn seed, my crib, and my wife on it My mics on it w/ bodies of dead friends That I lost as a child and never will see again Unless it's at the crossroads Where heaven and hells home And n***as that give you that call Don't mean the cell phone Do your research like stem cell clones And the odds are stacked Just like Ida B Wells Home [Hook] From the small talk, my words It's only meant for big things So I settle for nothing less then the big screen I got dreams but I ain't Dr. King Want to make freedom ring Wouldn't mind a pinky ring What's wrong with having nice things sh**, back in Africa wearing the gold was a sign of a king Naledge just a sign of the times Every line in my rhyme define off the top of the mind I'm one of a kind Southside's finest A.k.a. your Heiness Like airport laboratories I keep fly sh** 16 bars if you wanted to try sh** Microphone Mike Vick, I'm a game breaker Wack mc's shake sorta like a salt shaker Y'all n***as just fakers I'm singing Anita Baker In the background is the rapture Y'all n***as actors [Hook] I remember back when we used to cipher in the basement It was me, Bradley, and Fooch, Woody, and little David And nobody ever thought that we would make it Now them same people hitting me saying my joints they favorite I ain't going rub it in But I can't lie, cuz I'm loving it Sorta like the burger commercials n***as home keep asking if I'm turning commercial I said nah, I'm trying to turn to underground universal And I meant a couple A&R's from Universal Shady, def jam, sent a n***a walking like Hershel I understand, it's nothing personal But personally I don't give a flying f** if Halle had a set of wings To my favorite? filled dreams On stage I vent steam Show money, got money in European jeans In Japan We're just eating on sushi Waiting to hear cut swimmer like it's a movie [Hook] followed by talking My words run deep like a skinny girls cut From a habitat to battle raps, 40 ounces, and blunts Deep dish pizza, chicken wings, public transportation Through raps I receive emancipation I used to get teased like you wouldn't believe Black kids called me white just because I could read White kids called me strange cuz of my African name Now they say my rhymes flame It's funny how times change Money makes the world go round Hustle make the hoes come round Turns a snakes frown upside down Eyes on the prize keep my ears low to the ground Head to the sky like my words came from the clouds Life's a b**h Shacking like I play for the Heat Put a mattress in a snare how I lay in the beat And it's oh so serious, oh so delirious n***a turn this up f** is you hearing this (Talking) Clutching a beer Wishing my n***a Raleigh was here Feeling like Jermaine Taylor as I'm fighting the tears Wishing I could speak to 'em Throw a beat to 'em Now I just look to the sky I think I speak through him 18 years 18 years Now I'm looking at his momma pour his ash in the pier Life moving too fast And I'm losing my peers That's why I rap so hard, there's nothing to fear Drinking hard liquor even when there's nothing to cheer Here comes a brand new flavor in your ear Not Craig Mack but pro black My flow is on Prozac Like Cuba boy in the hood but never go back That's how I know that A n***a got to stay strong Just got to make it like Twista and Trey Songz Too many times in my life seen n***as stray wrong Now I'm determined to never play the same song (talking)