| Proud 'cause I grew up on welfare
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| Proud I was dirt poor, more or less
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| Proud 'cause I never had Jordans
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| Proud 'cause I used to wear Payless
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| Proud that the stove kept us warm
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| Proud that I didn’t have a red cent
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| Proud that I pay my mama bills now
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| Proud that I live in the hills now
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| Proud that my brother stopped poppin' Xans
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| Proud that I finally became a man
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| Proud that I cried many tears
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| Proud for the pain and the fears
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| Proud that my heart been broken
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| Proud that my uncle stopped smokin'
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| Proud that they thought I wouldn’t make it
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| Proud that my haters gotta take it
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| Proud that my sister never lost hope
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| Proud that she fightin' diabetes
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| I’m proud that Salito got to see me
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| I’m proud when I see me on TV
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| I’m proud for the bad breaks
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| Proud for the mistakes, I’m proud to be a dad
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| I’m proud 'cause I’m tan
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| I’m proud that the talent kept this pen in my hand
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| Straight like that
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| You gotta be proud for everything, man
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| The good, the bad, the ugly
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| You gotta be powerful through it all
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| Powerful through the struggles
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| To live is to suffer, word up
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| You survive through the times, that’s powerful
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| People livin' through the rhymes, that’s powerful
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| You shook hands with your enemy, that’s powerful
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| You always keep it G, that’s powerful
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| You makin' moves out the hood, that’s powerful
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| You gave a dollar to a bum, that’s powerful
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| Give advice to the youth, that’s powerful
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| You gotta pay dues, that’s powerful
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| Givin' people good news, that’s powerful
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| You just signed your first deal, that’s powerful
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| You just made your first mill, that’s powerful
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| You bow down and kneel, that’s powerful
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| You pray for every mill, that’s powerful
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| Givin' thanks, powerful, showin' love, powerful
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| Your mind is a weapon that’s powerful
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| Every scar on your body, that’s powerful
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| Every verse in my songs, that’s powerful
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| Supportin' your child, that’s powerful
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| Raise a kid that ain’t yours, that’s powerful
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| Forgivin' your past, that’s powerful
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| Visit family in prison, that’s powerful
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| Puttin' money on they books, that’s powerful
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| Everything I do is powerful
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| But if I wasn’t proud, then I couldn’t be powerful |