Verse:

Money can run everything / growing up without it fasho it can ruin everything / self-esteem low, threads I'm rocking I see the gangs and Goldie in rangs / call em Kings on that corners, not descendants of a slave / wha / wha / we greater than what history done made us.... / we greater than prison won't let you chain us... / new generation of thinkers, not perfect, we sinners, we know we fallin short for the record, we on Gennus / know these newer leaders see me, they see a menace / try living being the only one you know that won't that trigger / endearment to my brothas, self-hate / I say my niggas / degrading while addressed em, simple ways they'll kill us / we waking up / waking up / can't afford to sleep / I gotta babies, what I'm teaching em the essence what they shaping up to be /....in the world / full of ppl who sleazy / living with no purpose, and living without a dreams / see / it's hard to love a person like that..../ who don't what they could be / ...if they look inside & react, to what is true in fact / all of us is made in his image / ... yet we sleep walk / ....living life a privilege, yet we skate through it ...moonwalk / sleep with others we don't know em don't know what's real / we could be sleeping with demons, but all we see is thrills / baby mommas, courtrooms, you know that's trill / and kids suffering cause we fucking & never healed / my ideology simple with no apology / be lovers of every black / with that psychology we could honored / honoring self / unapologetic, what else / let's weeded out like being a Phelps / of who they say we are / socially they leave a scar / everything they made me only turned me to a superstar / cause I refuse / to ever lose / breaking the rules / while living to see me be alive, and switching my views / around the world I be going / like I'm married to Boeing / all I see in my head / ain't too many that know it cause you gotta be careful who share you dreams with / cause people kill, refuse to die on some jealous shit...

Bridge:

I do it do it, do it live for my city what....
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