Strive (feat. Missy Elliott)

You can be you today, you can be you tonight

Know you're feelin' really great, it's gon' be alright

I can see it in your face and I know you wanna fly

So get off your ass and create your life

'Cause you're missin' opportunities

I know you're rich in opportunities

And you're missin' opportunities?

I know you're rich in opportunities, oh oh oh

Workin' in Ben & Jerry's, it was scary, my life vision was blurry

You got talent, why's you here? I'm thinkin', yeah plus I am getting a belly

I remember mama screamin' you ain't gon' be like your Uncle Terry

Uncle Terry on the corner sellin' rocks, he don't care what you tell him

A hustler, bad mudda strutta, ridin' in a brand new Lex when he pull up

He got a hood bitch from the block in the winter

He pull up on her like, baby give me sugar, mane

Man I wish I shoulda, coulda, woulda woulda put a hurtin' on her if I hit her with wood up

She got me dreamin'

When I get outta the hood, I'ma get me somethin' better

You can be you today, you can be you tonight

Know you're feelin' really great, it's gon' be alright

I can see it in your face and I know you wanna fly

So get off your ass and create your life

'Cause you're missin' opportunities

I know you're rich in opportunities

And you're missin' opportunities?

I know you're rich in opportunities, oh oh oh, (Let'g go)

In VA, where I stay they don't play, they'll tell you that to your face

Collard greens, candied yams, potato salad

Before you grub, better say your grace, oh

Auntie Jean was kinda mean, but she had dreams

She used to sing like Tina Turner, she said, bring my wig, bring my dress

My high heel shoes from Sunday mornin' service

Aye, she said, I'll show y'all beginners

I'll still whoop that ass with a switch and a splinter

Pray for these tramps runnin' round like a sinner

Missy wanna be a star? Well, tell her she's a winner

Aye, she a bad lil sumn'

Love how she dance like Michael Jackson

Told me I would be number one

Just be yourself, don't be nothin' like them

You can be you today, you can be you tonight

Know you're feelin' really great, it's gon' be alright

I can see it in your face and I know you wanna fly

So get off your ass and create your life

Cause you're missin' opportunities

I know you're rich in opportunities

Are you're missin' opportunities?

I know you're rich in opportunities, oh oh oh