The Freshman - Believe lyrics

[Verse 1] I just want to be a legend before I D I E n***as say they want to smoke me like the tree I chief In my C I G, like B I G Your own people hate you more than the P I G's Throwing money in the club, screaming T I G Made ten bands on the G I G What you tryna do shawty I done D I D I'm just doing this rap sh** to try and feed my niece Fair east side, where I reside My n***as butchers cause it's hard to let the beef slide Grew up in the church but don't think that I ain't street wise End up in the trunk with your hands and your feet tied Speak my mind, I was never one of those meek guys Been a leader since knee high All the freaks used to treat me like a Greek god Had a chick at Dunwoody, bad b**h at Creekside [Hook] If you don't believe I was the coolest n***a on my street If you don't believe You can ask all the hustlers, you can ask the freaks If you don't believe If you don't believe You never know what you can achieve [Verse 2] All I need is hope, but I never got a scholarship All I ever got was a pistol and some hollow tips Huh, a few pounds and a lot of whips Could've sold dope but that wasn't my prerogative I was more positive, tryna stay out of jail Wild little n***as, oh we gave the cops hell Rides [?] Scotsdale, I was making pot sales k**ed the fruit on my like co*ktails I do this for my n***a Greg cause he never got bailed Real goon put a hot shell in your [?] No joke, I ain't Jerry Seinfeld The only reason I ain't in the street is cause I rhyme well I just want a chariot and two Clydesdales [?] And an outfit from YSL Tryna do something that most people that try failed But you never make it if you [Hook] [Outro - MLK] I come here tonight and plead with you. Believe in yourself and believe that you're somebody. As I said to a group last night, nobody else can do this for us! No document can do this for us. No Lincolnian Emancipation Proclamation can do this for us. No Kennesonian or Johnsonian Civil Rights Bill can do this for us. If the Negro is to be free, he must move down into the inner resources of his own soul and sign with a pen and ink of self-a**ertive manhood, his own Emancipation Proclamation!