[Intro] Things will never change, dawg. You gotta pay attention, man. I'm telling you things will never change in this motherf**er. Forever and a lifetime, n***a. Forever. However long you in this motherf**er. Forever how long you here. Just pay attention, n***a. One n***a life. One n***a life gets better, n***a. Then three motherf**ers' gets worse. Then ten motherf**ers after that get worser than that. And we gonna have ups and downs, n***a, we just gotta learn how to stand tall [Verse] Every time I wake up, f** turning up my swag That's something that I done had since a young'n I think of what I'm gonna do to keep this money coming I think of what I'm gonna do to keep the food on the table, in my family's tummy What to do, to keep these folks from taking another one of my n***as from me The let us out on papers just to have a revocation Meeting months later, trying to [?] me on some false accusations They want back up in the system We the victims Of slavery It's still alive If you think otherwise, suggest you open up your eyes And face reality, of what's going on with you and me Aye, We're just on a longer leash With a few more opportunities Then they had in the past My grandma busted her a** and she still ain't got no Medicare Car crash, she needs money from everywhere Just to pay off all these high a** bills I'm tryna put in high a** crib, sitting on the hill So I know I gotta hustle I can't go legit, then I won't make sh** Gotta make sure my mama lives behind the black fence Only seven bucks an hour from the government? That don't make sense And then they telling me to fill out they little application If it ain't about no money by all means, motherf** your conversation They same sh** goes on Take a look around you, there's so much that goes wrong And the folks still tryna hold us down Things will never change They gone always be the same as long as the world goes round and round [Hook] World goes around World goes around World goes arooooundddd [Verse] Ain't nothing popping about no broke n***as Ain't no jokes Don't want to kick it with my folks Just been smoking 'ports Figure I'm tryna smoke the pain away I ain't seen nothing but some rainy days Lately, I've been wondering when the sun comes out Will I switch positions, then another young n***a's gun comes out Point it at me and tell me to take off the chain, give me your change n***a, wrong move and that's your brains I gotta have that Another statistic, caught up living this life of crime Can't really blame his decisions, they're made from hard times I was doing the same sh** until Ricky and Black came and sat me down Still robbing after that, look at how sh** goes around How the f** them birds fall from out the sky like that? Why the Lord let D.J. die and make me cry like that? The same old sh**, innocent ones who fall flat Younger than those who be snitching for confidential snacks Or the time they getting for crimes they committing Those the ones I feel like shouldn't be living (n***as got no responsibility) I'm tryna figure how these habitual molesters That I keep sitting next to Sentences always be the lesser, to a dope presser My n***a, Woo, got thirty years for that white girl I know amigo got ten years for playing with little girls Open your eyes and tell me what you see in your world Make get better but won't sh** change…