| I done seen the pain through the windows, it’s so |
| Some never got the chance to grow old |
| It’s so hard to sleep in a house, ain’t no heat |
| When they call your mama a fiend on the streets |
| Some times it help to sit back and think |
| 10 years from now, where will a nigga be? |
| I ain’t had the best life, but the lord done blessed me |
| Streets arrest me cause I’m stuck and can’t leave |
| Surrounded by niggas faker than hair weave |
| Open eyes should see, tryna achieve my dreams |
| It keep my family close like a football team |
| Cause in Oakland, nobody cares like New Orleans |
| Sometimes my size 10s feel like 15s |
| Cause in my mind, I’m knowin that a nigga can’t fill these |
| Now the streets got me stuck on E’s |
| It was either motel, or I was sleeping in the streets |
| Doing homework, if I had a home to work in |
| I wanna hang with my friends, and we splurgin |
| My mama said we was broke and it hurted |
| I learned quick to steal the shit |
| I’ll sell a nigga a dream to get what I get |
| Cause at the end of the day, nobody givin me shit, shit, shit |
| How you gonna talk when you ain’t been down my road, my road |
| You on course with a night so cold, so cold |
| How you gonna talk when you ain’t been down my road, my road |
| Lord forgive me for the life I chose, I chose |
| In the blink of an eye, these niggas will pull a heist, take your life |
| Hoping numbers rolled on the dice |
| My mama told me never make the same mistake twice |
| You a star from god, not cause you rock ice |
| She want everybody, tryna live the good life |
| I’m hopin I don’t lose mine in a gunfight |
| I be posted all night to the sunlight |
| Still tell it how it is every time I’m on the mic |
| You get locked up and never see the daylight |
| He used to be the man, now he on a glass pipe |
| It’s in that cocaine, destroy a nigga life |
| Shit, I’m still watching mothafuckas pay the price |
| They put they bluffs on yo ass when they too tight |
| One black, one white, looking like Miami Vice |
| I miss my nigga, tell him to send me a kite |
| Cause where I be they don’t walk. What they do? Bike |
| Hit a nigga name, you outta town, outta sight |
| Niggas mad, cause you tryna get your money right |
| Never been a dummy boy, I came up selling hard white |
| Talk to me, I can tell you what the struggle like |
| And what the ghetto go through, living a troubled life |
| I gotta bubble up, I kick it, flip it twice, twice |
| Then I’m back to my rap life, life… then I’m back to my rap life |
| How you gonna talk when you ain’t been down my road, my road |
| You on course with a night so cold, so cold |
| How you gonna talk when you ain’t been down my road, my road |
| Lord forgive me for the life I chose, I chose |