Everything I tell you today up here Ima show it to you in black and white!

(Everybody up)

Tryna make it from the bottom, pull everybody up

Always felt if I fail, everybody stuck

Where I'm from was dilapidated

I can say this: destruction's what that created

All shade, it's only ball players, rappers made it

The youth clings, the only two things that captivated

I chop it up and let what's said simmer

Was always fed before I was fed dinner

Was urged from birth, felt the burden of breadwinning

My young gripes was some nights went to bed thinner

Everybody up

Sentiments like I was sent from the seminary

Rap feats took a backseat, I had men to bury

Taint living, ain't tripping if money's our itinerary

Pro's is those before cons, I was in already

Everybody up

Not a sex villain, raised to respect women, "no" is "no"

It's facts, God, when blacks rob, all we know is woe

It's no wins in them times, went blow-for-blow

That hand-to-hand had us going toe-to-toe

There was no one I feared

But the night Shane died was the moment I veered

Though I slid, still endeared, so it appeared

I'm in my winter, you can tell by the snow on my beard

Everybody up

Gon' take more than what you got for Ka to yield

Build 'til my pot is filled or in potter's field

I did it without a shield

I'm past how it sound, I ask how it feel (how it feel?)

Everybody up

Them bigots did us how they treat peasants

No gifts, but always police presence

Stopped putting in work, a complete severance

In this labyrinth, arrogance defeats blessings

Everybody up (everybody up)

I want everybody up

Tryna make it from the bottom, pull everybody up

Always felt if I fail, everybody stuck

Tryna make it from the bottom, pull everybody up

Always felt if I fail, everybody stuck

(Always felt if I fail)

I want everybody up

If I fail, everybody stuck

(Peace to the 'Ville. Peace to my family, I love y'all, my mother and my peoples, I got you.)

Well they outnumber us, so I'd say it's a fair fight