[00:06.06]Feat Billy Cook
[00:07.20]This for all my G's and my n***as that ride with me
[00:16.89]Only God feel the pain and only he can really see
[00:23.10]Through the eyes of a child
[00:26.16]A baby born wild
[00:31.23]Gangsta s**t flow through his blood and no one had to show him how
[00:37.35]Kill or be killed where I come from ain't no in between
[00:42.66]Why trade the world just to be a d**e fiend
[00:48.39]H*es have a child just to take a n***a change
[00:55.23]Twelve years later he want to know his daddy name
[01:00.84]Maximum security prison how we get to see
[01:08.25]The only man resemble him and this s**t here ain't on T V
[01:12.24]Your favorite actor don't play this part
[01:15.00]If you never live to sit you can't say his heart
[01:19.02]You don't have to believe me
[01:20.43]Believe me
[01:21.30]Unless you want to believe me
[01:23.43]Believe me
[01:24.36]But it's real
[01:27.42]It's so real
[01:28.47]It's all real
[01:29.97]Yeah
[01:31.59]Little girl
[01:33.06]So precious and innocent to the world
[01:37.89]Get swallowed up and sucked up by this world
[01:39.72]Little girl you hide your pain with all them games
[01:46.32]Gettin' high and sellin' ya soul who can you blame
[01:53.25]N***a love you what do they love what you do
[02:03.45]It's aiight boo I know you gotta get paid too
[02:08.28]It's a long road
[02:10.50]Full of n***as and h*es
[02:14.52]Gotta be strong
[02:16.20]Cuz It's so easy for you to be gone
[02:17.94]Not here no more
[02:19.26]You not breathing so yo not here no more
[02:21.60]You touch no more
[02:22.23]You feel no more and you don't fear no more
[02:25.83]Not here no more
[02:27.12]I know you don't want to hear dis
[02:28.53]But somebody got to tell ya some real s**t
[02:35.31]Not sugarcoated
[02:38.76]Cuz where I come from s**t ain't sweet
[02:51.48]You got a choice and it ain't s**t for you in them streets
[03:00.45]Black women be a momma to ya little babies
[03:05.52]Get on ya knees and pray to God things change daily
[03:10.71]We ain't tryin to preach to ya
[03:13.35]Just tryin' to reach to ya
[03:17.49]See all of us are blessed with somethin'
[03:21.33]But most of us don't take two seconds out of our days
[03:26.22]To try to imagine somebosy elses hard times
[03:29.82]Because ya too busy worried about cha own
[03:34.02]If ya wanna know what real is
[03:35.43]Real is experiencing good times and hardaches and being
[03:40.29]Able to balance them boats
[03:43.14]But at the same time realizing that the world will continue to
[03:51.39]Spin with or without you
[03:56.34]Lend me your ears give me your spirit your conscience has to pay
[04:05.58]Attention to what I mention
[04:10.89]I'm your eye opener the hope for the one to will never see the suburbs
[04:17.57]And if good life is only the word
[04:20.37]The phrase the life that somebody else is living
[04:24.96]Although we human most of us continue to live in
[04:28.53]In humane dormanes whether pictures the same
[04:35.55]Children being born using their mothers maiden name
[04:37.92]We play the game of life but we don't all win
[04:40.29]Most of us ride the bench until were called in
[04:44.19]Struggling to get noticed in the side the one sided
[04:48.42]On nation under God so divided
[04:54.30]Out of touch with each others cultural activities
[04:58.92]If you don't know someone like me than how you feelin' me
[05:04.56]MJG the air we breathe makes us all related
[05:08.73]So suck it up and realize it takes us all to make it