Hey, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
That was good, bro.
For the first time in my life, I'm gonna let you be safe.
Oh, yeah.
And I can feel the love.
This is the good part, right?
I'm gonna let this ride out, though.
I'm gonna let it out.
Finally got a reason to be happy, you feel me?
All right, look.
And I can feel the love.
Hey, I never thought that I'd be doing what it is I'm doing now.
Girls calling me, trying to follow me all the way to my house in the city.
Then I'm out the next day.
Still a young grasshopper kicking with my senseis who just want to school me on the game.
Smoking and telling tales.
You could fabricate the truth, but being real never fails.
So I put my life on wax, as is.
Like right now, I'm just kicking it up a stash crib.
I'm kind of living the dream, and I enjoy it.
Happiness is great when you're used to disappointment.
Now I'm good, big smile and a loud heart.
Everything kosher like Cal up at South Park.
Overnight success could be gone by the morning.
That's why I'm on my grind, putting time in recording.
Stacking paper, trying to save me up a fortune and go and cop a hundred pairs of old school Jordans.
When the rain fell from the sky, and the dark clouds made it hard to see the light.
Oh, I still managed to survive.
The happy days are finally here, and now I can, now I can smile.
I rocked 30 countries in a two -year span.
Damn, mama's little man rocking Japan.
Got the source unsigned hype, showed the whole hood.
And now it's 2K5, damn time flies.
Man, it feel good to see people up on it.
Coming to your shows and worshiping your performance.
Running to the stores and purchasing your recordings.
Remember your goal is platinum and gold.
It's good to see Mack blow up the kids nasty.
Static on his way to the top.
That's if you ask me, I got a good reason to smile.
I'm getting cash beyond whatever I thought I would make off a song.
If I get a lot of money, I'm leaving it to my daughters.
There's a lot of fake people around me, but I ignore them.
And I think about all of my enemies all the time, but fuck it, I'll let it slide.
I'm just happy to be alive.
When the rain fell from the sky, and the dark clouds made it hard to see the light.
Oh, I still managed to survive.
The happy days are finally here.
And now I can, now I can smile.
When people turn their backs on me, playing me, trying to throw me away.
Now I can smile.
Now they wonder how I'm still living well, eating good and getting paid.
Cause I know my children will never feel hunger pains.
When I wanted to give up, I found a new purpose.
Now it's a new day, cause I'm so happy.
Look at my life and where your boy came from.
The land and the trail, that's where I got my game from.
Where you gotta be strong and survive.
And if you're not built right, they gonna be gone with your life.
Everything can change for you in the blink of an eye.
Today they're your homies, but tomorrow they'll try y 'all.
You be the king on the throne, laughing at the pawn.
And in the flash, it'll be your crown he's putting on.
But I took the advice that the OG's bestowed.
It didn't take long before your boy got told.
Now I'm an OG and I'm doing the same.
For the terms and the max and the stats of the game.
Looking at my past days and where I'm at now.
I learned to skin it, now your boy's living fat now.
I'm standing at the top of the pile.
And all I can do is smile, happy day.
When the rain fell from the sky.
And the dark clouds made it hard to see the light.
I still managed to survive.
So happy days are finally here.
And now I can, now I can smile.
I can smile, I can smile.
Oh yeah, I can smile.
What no one else believed, I believed in it.
Oh yeah, now I can smile.
There we go.
