Where We Come From

If it's up to me and God

We prove them wrong

We in the struggle, but we still surviving

Cah them will kill you just for a Nike

They don't want to see youth's rising

And if we make it out, sure dem no like it, yeah

See weh we come from, people don't think they can live how they want

But leave it to me, and I'm a prove them all wrong

Me tell you say them no real

Disguise how dem feel

Yuh mother tell you say if you no hear, you go feel

Now you behind bars, and naa go get no appeal

Find out the lawyer work fi dem and now you naa get no deal

Crab in a barrel mentality, dem wah

Fi pull yo down like gravity

Me haffi keep my sanity

But dem nuh know say me have my strategy

We in the struggle, but we still surviving

Cah them will kill you just for a Nike

They don't want to see youth's rising

And if we make it out, sure dem no like it, yeah

See weh we come from, people don't think they can live how they want

But leave it to me, and I'm a prove them all wrong

Yeah, the struggle real yeah, never make that worry me, yet

Empty barrel make the noise, but a money we make

Jah be me light inna the dark when me a touch the street

Me hear the lie weh dem a talk, but me no believe them

Defy the odds, a so mi mean

Ghetto youths wake up and go fi dreams

Round ya suh we no get nothing free, no

Proto, we lead out

We in the struggle, but we still surviving

Cah them will kill you just for a Nike

They don't want to see youth's rising

And if we make it out, sure dem no like it, yeah

See weh we come from, people don't think they can live how they want

But leave it to me, and I'm a prove them all wrong

Yeah, man a so we prove them wrong all the time

Me is a youth wah believe say life is a journey, you nuh

And me believe say you haffi determined, yuh hear that

No matter late or early

Yuh haffi work and count your blessings

And collect them with two hands open, yuh hear that

No matter the noise inna the market

We in the struggle, but we still surviving

Cah them will kill you just for a Nike

They don't want to see youths rising

And if we make it out sure dem no like it, yeah

See weh we come from, people don't think they can live how they want

But leave it to me, and I'm a prove them all wrong