Eightball & MJG - While We Here lyrics

Chorus x 2 While we here lets celebrate dont do tomorrow what you could do today tell somebody you love'em n***a tell somebody you love'em n***a (yea, yea) It was a long hard struggle my life been a battlefield, but i keep fightin givin all that i got ta give, real is the only way that i try to live get mines like the next man gets his a closed mouth never got fed thats why im spittin now daddy, do it for the bread i do it for the love, i do it for the ?? matter fact i really do it for all the above im mild mannered but im hype on my records i try to separate real life from the records most of the stuff that i rap about be facts but dont mean that i still live like that a lot of paths, i no longer have to walk up out em im blessed to be a rapper, i get paid to talk about em i aint got to keep a strap in my lap now thank god i can make it with this rap now Chorus x 2 Summertime 1985, granmomma, grandaddy they were still alive me and my cousins playin the the yard before a young n***a knew that life got hard years went by, now we in the streets they was in the trap and i was rappin over beats jermaine, but everybody called him maine on my birthday he got murdered and slain ???? now he the subject of my sad song i miss him, we cant never bring him back i wish he woulda asked me for them couple stacks damn his momma look so hurt when she had to put her son body in tha dirt and i cried, i hope you listen to the words i speak if one person get the picture thats good for me Chorus x 2 im not tryin to steal ya money im not tryin to take ya woman im just tryin to feed my family and take care of my momma im a slave ever since they broke these chains i been runnin everything came to me was a long time comin im an OG man, i just look this way ill do somethin to ya, i just look this way i aint got enough face for my tear drop trails too many homies locked up to help em make bail so i try to send em pictures, holla on tha phone try to keep em motivated til they make it home sometimes i feel like im locked up and im free sometimes i feel like its overwhelming being me but i snap back and realize im built for this life everything you take from me imma get back twice no problems and no failures, imma pro cuz the solutions for succeeding is all that i know