[00:00.56]Ah what's up man What up Ali [00:03.00]Ah you still standing on this motherf**kin corner [00:06.06]Shit ain't you 30 years old motherf**ker [00:09.23]Ah so when I pick up the microphone [00:11.26]I know what I'm saying [00:12.25]Wasn't long ago was facing the same situation [00:15.37]Carpet got ripped from me pacing [00:16.99]The rent's a month late [00:18.21]Ain't shit on the way I'm straight praying [00:20.27]Ends don't meet unless you make 'em [00:22.14]The people don't eat unless you scrape [00:23.70]And you see they ain't playing [00:24.89]Corner store credit is way thing [00:27.25]The World got it's way of [00:28.40]Weighing on your shoulders it's degrading [00:30.48]It's like we got frowns tattooed on our faces [00:32.41]The school's ain't saving our new generation [00:35.16]Stare at our kids they need a paradigm shift [00:37.47]The paradox is that parents aren't shit [00:40.09]Why you got cable Your life is not stable [00:42.53]Lights not paid for Nikes on layaway though [00:45.66]It's like we wanna look good while we drowning [00:47.67]Should grab a paddle and scrap our way out [00:50.54]Life's not a good when you living it like this [00:52.60]Leave your lane for a minute you might flip [00:55.35]It's like chains on your neck with a tight grip [00:57.91]Use your brain in this shit and you might live [01:00.53]Life's not a good when you living it like this [01:02.96]Leave your lane for a minute you might flip [01:05.52]It's like chains on your neck with a tight grip [01:07.95]Use your brain in this shit and you might live [01:10.51]While you in the drug game my hustle got another name [01:12.95]You dying making somebody rich it's the f**king same [01:14.94]So quick to call a square job Brother lame [01:17.81]Truth be told you might wanna choose another lane [01:20.24]Yeah I'm bussing 'til my bitch ass drop [01:22.38]You on the corner pushing them bitch ass rocks [01:24.94]And yes I'm getting sweated by my bitch ass boss [01:27.63]Your ass steady running from them bitch ass cops [01:29.87]This shit don't stop the game ain't new [01:32.55]The pen's full of dudes who thought the same shit too [01:35.18]That city is a blind fold here to keep your eyes closed [01:37.74]Sell your crack and it's all dough and fly clothes [01:40.77]Shit ain't nothing like "The Sopranos" [01:42.71]Real talk you're probably better off at McDonald's [01:45.41]Rappers all say they went from hustling to rhymin [01:47.72]But look everybody say the other one's a liar [01:50.21]Life's not a good when you living it like this [01:52.58]Leave your lane for a minute you might flip [01:55.33]It's like chains on your neck with a tight grip [01:58.08]Use your brain in this shit and you might live [02:00.45]Life's not a good when you living it like this [02:02.94]Leave your lane for a minute you might flip [02:05.44]It's like chains on your neck with a tight grip [02:08.00]Use your brain in this shit and you might live [02:10.49] [02:11.18]Man f**k you Brother Ali [02:12.86]You always runnin your mouth [02:14.18]Just 'cause you got that rap shit cool [02:15.74]Man we on these streets motherf**ker [02:17.61]Get out here and see how it is [02:19.85]It don't matter about me rapping [02:21.10]My ass is still scratching [02:22.04]Some day I'm a be the "yo remember back when " [02:25.22]While I'm hear I got to really make it happen [02:27.53]Try to have emergency landing instead of crashing [02:30.35]F**k saying I've been here brother I am here [02:32.60]Might not live here this year but I still care [02:35.76]Not talking down to you straight to you [02:37.63]No player hater my dude it's plain true [02:39.88]Gotta live like don't nobody love you but you [02:42.43]As long as your blood move tragedy could touch you [02:45.18]Struggle ain't nothin new [02:46.27]Cards ain't gonna always land how you want 'em too [02:49.05]F**k it though thug it through [02:50.36]Can't give up as much as you'd love to [02:52.54]There's certain shit as a man we must do [02:54.79]You God damn right they made it like this [02:57.89]But I ain't trying to wait for the day they might fix [03:00.27]Life's not a good when you living it like this [03:02.57]Leave your lane for a minute you might flip [03:05.84]It's like chains on your neck with a tight grip [03:08.08]Use your brain in this shit and you might live [03:10.95]Life's not a good when you living it like this [03:13.07]Leave your lane for a minute you might flip [03:15.38]It's like chains on your neck with a tight grip [03:18.06]Use your brain in this shit and you might live