Still I Rise (feat. Ta'He)

Dear Lord

As we down here

Struggle for as long as we know

In search of a paradise to touch

Dreams are dreams

And reality seems to be the only place to go

The only place for us

I know, try to make the best of bad situations

Seems to be my life story

Ain't no glory in pain

A solider's story in vain

And can't nobody live this life for me

It's a ride y'all

A long hard ride

Somebody wake me, I'm dreamin'

I started as a seed, the semen

Swimmin' upstream, planted in the womb while screamin'

On the top was my pops

My mom was screamin' stop

From a single drop, this is what they got

Not to disrespect my peoples but my poppa was a loser

Only plan he had for momma was to fuck her and abuse her

Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me

Stranded on welfare, another broken family

Now what was I to be

A product of this heated passion

Mamma got pregnant and poppa got a piece of ass

Look how it began

Nobody gave a fuck about me

Pistol in my hand

This cruel world can do without me

How can I survive

Got me asking white Jesus will a **** live or die

'Cause the Lord can't see us in the deep dark clouds of the projects

Ain't no sunshine

No sunny days and we only play sometimes

When everybody sleepin', I open my window

Jump to the streets and get to creepin'

I can live or die

Hope I get some money 'fore I'm gone

I'm only 19, I'm tryin' to hustle on my own

On the spot where everybody and their pops tryin' to sling rocks

Rather go to college, but this is where the game stops

Don't get it wrong 'cause it's always on

From dusk to dawn

You can buy rocks, glocks, or a herringbone

You can ask my man, he's a mind reader

Keep my nine heated

All the time this is how we grind

Meet up at the cemetery

Then get smoked out

Pass the weed, ****

That Hennessey'll keep me keyed ****

Everywhere I go **** holla at me

Keep it real G

And my reply till they kill me

Act up if ya feel me

I was born not to make it but I did

The tribulations of a ghetto kid

Still I rise

Still I (Still I)

I rise (I rise)

Please give me to the sky (The sky)

And if (And if)

I die (I die)

I don't want you to cry

I stay sharp as always

Runnin ya bricks with blitz

Through ya project hallways

Dumping crews like two's

****, all day

Secrets of war prepare me for the worst

A life that's lavish, full of cabbage

Or a life thats in a hearse

But now my dreams it seems though

Be placing triple beams and things, bro

Diamond pinkie rings got the loot poppin' out my jeans

Now I plan to keep my glock cocked

If trouble was searchin' for me then why not

Show 'em what I'm made of plus raised on, on my block

Chancellor Ave, where many turn to the street

Thugs snatchin' bags

We out for power

Makin' cash

It wasn't fast, it'll make me mad

I'm just like, pimpin'

My homie on the corner with his gat tucked in

Youngest they buckin' somethin' the left he leads

The life he don't need

Don't we all know

He tryin' to rise up and we just go, though

Still he rise

Dreams of lost hope

I hit the strip broke

Where the fiends get coke

And still I rise now

I float cowards ghost

Whenever we come around

I'm runnin' down

Clutchin' a pound, live as sirens, duckin' the sound

I used to hustle with my mom till the sun came

My homie Harm doin' time from the drug game

Stolen cars

War scars, born a outlaw

Behind bars, go to sleep just to see the stars

Freedom is ours

Though we trapped on a firm block

Crackheads, only ten learn to duck cops

In 96 my glock's my plastic, passion for blastin' bastards

No faces for open caskets

Peelin' ya cap backwards

Ya cowards ain't prepared for pistol practice

I send my missiles through your mattress

Leavin' holes in your body like a cactus

While me and my crew be boppin' more greens the topic

And loot to keep the seams in my motherfuckin' jeans poppin'

Leavin' ya spleen to pick up

Half of you **** is softer than a Snicker

Let's go to war and see who draw quicker

And still I rise

And still I rise

Still I (Still I)

Still I rise

Please give me to the sky (The sky)

And if (And if)

I die (I die)

I don't want you to cry

Still I (Still I)

I rise (I rise)

Please give me to the sky (The sky)

And if (And if)

I die (I die)

I don't want you to cry

Y'all **** be fake

All day everyday

So now I got roller blades, bitch

Thought you knew

Your mouth is rich

C'mon pops, let's go