Mmm, yeah, keep ya head up!

Yeah

Our lifestyles be close captioned

Addicted to fatal attractions

Pictures of actions be played back

In the midst of mashin'

No fairy tales for this young black male

Some see me stranded in this land of hell, jail, and crack sales

Hustlers hardly think of culture

Or the repercussions while bustin' on backstabbin' vultures

Sellin' my soul for material wishes, fast cars, and b

Wishin' I live my life a legend, immortalized in pictures

Why shed tears?

Save your sympathy

My childhood years were spent buryin' my peers in the cemetery

Here's a message to the newborns waitin' to breathe

If you believe, then you can achieve: just look at me

Against all odds, though life is hard we carry on

Livin' in the projects, broke with no lights on

To all the seeds that follow me, protect your essence

Born with less, but you still precious, just smile for me now!

Smile for me

F the world as we elope and witness furious speeds

Of nasty questions keep us all stressin', curious G's

Backstabbed and bleedin', f thoughts laced with weed

Learnin', duckin' stray shots, bullets be hot, they burnin'

Inhalin' sherm smoke, visualized the flames

Will I be smothered by my own pain?

Strange whispers, cowards conversate, so quick to diss us

Takin' pictures for the Feds and desperate hopes they'd get us

Hit us off, give us plenty centuries, forgive my sins

Since I ain't in many penitentiaries, the best revenge is f friends

We military minded soldiers, bustin' shots blindly

Tryin' to find Jehovah to help me, somebody save me

Lost and crazy, scared to drop a seed

Hopin' I ain't cursed my babies, maybe now n s feel me now

Picture my pain, embrace my words

Make the world change and still I smile n

And now a moment of silence