[00:00.000] 作曲 : Brother Ali
[00:00.56]Ah what's up man What up Ali
[00:03.00]Ah you still standing on this ************ corner
[00:06.06]**** ain't you 30 years old ************
[00:09.23]Ah so when I pick up the microphone
[00:11.26]I know what I'm saying
[00:12.25]Wasn't long ago was facing the same situation
[00:15.37]Carpet got ripped from me pacing
[00:16.99]The rent's a month late
[00:18.21]Ain't **** on the way I'm straight praying
[00:20.27]Ends don't meet unless you make 'em
[00:22.14]The people don't eat unless you scrape
[00:23.70]And you see they ain't playing
[00:24.89]Corner store credit is way thing
[00:27.25]The World got it's way of
[00:28.40]Weighing on your shoulders it's degrading
[00:30.48]It's like we got frowns tattooed on our faces
[00:32.41]The school's ain't saving our new generation
[00:35.16]Stare at our kids they need a paradigm shift
[00:37.47]The paradox is that parents aren't ****
[00:40.09]Why you got cable Your life is not stable
[00:42.53]Lights not paid for Nikes on layaway though
[00:45.66]It's like we wanna look good while we drowning
[00:47.67]Should grab a paddle and scrap our way out
[00:50.54]Life's not a good when you living it like this
[00:52.60]Leave your lane for a minute you might flip
[00:55.35]It's like chains on your neck with a tight grip
[00:57.91]Use your brain in this **** and you might live
[01:00.53]Life's not a good when you living it like this
[01:02.96]Leave your lane for a minute you might flip
[01:05.52]It's like chains on your neck with a tight grip
[01:07.95]Use your brain in this **** and you might live
[01:10.51]While you in the drug game my hustle got another name
[01:12.95]You dying making somebody rich it's the ******* same
[01:14.94]So quick to call a square job Brother lame
[01:17.81]Truth be told you might wanna choose another lane
[01:20.24]Yeah I'm bussing 'til my ***** ass drop
[01:22.38]You on the corner pushing them ***** ass rocks
[01:24.94]And yes I'm getting sweated by my ***** ass boss
[01:27.63]Your ass steady running from them ***** ass cops
[01:29.87]This **** don't stop the game ain't new
[01:32.55]The pen's full of dudes who thought the same **** too
[01:35.18]That city is a blind fold here to keep your eyes closed
[01:37.74]Sell your crack and it's all dough and fly clothes
[01:40.77]**** ain't nothing like "The Sopranos"
[01:42.71]Real talk you're probably better off at McDonald's
[01:45.41]Rappers all say they went from hustling to rhymin
[01:47.72]But look everybody say the other one's a liar
[01:50.21]Life's not a good when you living it like this
[01:52.58]Leave your lane for a minute you might flip
[01:55.33]It's like chains on your neck with a tight grip
[01:58.08]Use your brain in this **** and you might live
[02:00.45]Life's not a good when you living it like this
[02:02.94]Leave your lane for a minute you might flip
[02:05.44]It's like chains on your neck with a tight grip
[02:08.00]Use your brain in this **** and you might live
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[02:11.18]Man **** you Brother Ali
[02:12.86]You always runnin your mouth
[02:14.18]Just 'cause you got that rap **** cool
[02:15.74]Man we on these streets ************
[02:17.61]Get out here and see how it is
[02:19.85]It don't matter about me rapping
[02:21.10]My ass is still scratching
[02:22.04]Some day I'm a be the "yo remember back when "
[02:25.22]While I'm hear I got to really make it happen
[02:27.53]Try to have emergency landing instead of crashing
[02:30.35]**** saying I've been here brother I am here
[02:32.60]Might not live here this year but I still care
[02:35.76]Not talking down to you straight to you
[02:37.63]No player hater my dude it's plain true
[02:39.88]Gotta live like don't nobody love you but you
[02:42.43]As long as your blood move tragedy could touch you
[02:45.18]Struggle ain't nothin new
[02:46.27]Cards ain't gonna always land how you want 'em too
[02:49.05]**** it though thug it through
[02:50.36]Can't give up as much as you'd love to
[02:52.54]There's certain **** as a man we must do
[02:54.79]You God damn right they made it like this
[02:57.89]But I ain't trying to wait for the day they might fix
[03:00.27]Life's not a good when you living it like this
[03:02.57]Leave your lane for a minute you might flip
[03:05.84]It's like chains on your neck with a tight grip
[03:08.08]Use your brain in this **** and you might live
[03:10.95]Life's not a good when you living it like this
[03:13.07]Leave your lane for a minute you might flip
[03:15.38]It's like chains on your neck with a tight grip
[03:18.06]Use your brain in this **** and you might live