MC IL - Hardknocks lyrics

[Verse 1: Adverse] This goes out to my felons that can't get jobs Need to feed their seeds so they have to rob… Shout out to the snakes in their camouflage Actors who do whatever when the camera's off This world's manic erasing the line of trust I mean even the government lies to us… Friend and foes have become synonymous Can't tell the difference between a dawg n snitch A world ran on money, madness n' greed The root of evil planted all family trees… The panic for cheese causes some insanity pleas BLAM, Body's in the sand, sadness and grief… Violence glorified by every CD in stores… And broad-casted by every media source We need a revolution, we need to rea**ured There's more if you need another reason for war [Hook] One day i'm trying to have a wife and kids So I just can't live my life like this And I ain't tryna learn what lifeless is So I just can't live my life like this I want the gold chains, the diamond rings But I just can't live my life like this And sometimes i want to light this spliff But i just can't live my life like this [Verse 2: MC IL] [Hook] [Verse 3: Adverse] Do whatever I have to do to be known Whether that's two in the dome in a funeral home Get rich or die tryin the poor man's slogan Asking god to let me make it, both hands closed in Don't want to be caught up with kids In cell blocks, who's bullets caught em a victim For youths whose memories gotta revist The hot blocks and the rocks they were flippin I want my future kids to have a fatherly figure The streets is the lowest winnin lottery ticket A dirty world that nobodies willin to scrub Dreams of evil translating to a billion bucks America is driven off of riches and wealth Grinding to get it whether in sickness or health And I'm no different, trying to get the bills And if that resorts to me breakin laws, liftin steel Then so be it… [Hook]