This is the come up Grinding for the ones that I love Fueled by the passion and pain And all the bullshit I've been through Still I hold my head up high And all them roadblocks I walk right through Grinding for the ones that I love I do it for the ones like me And all people who's just like you No matter what they say about me I'mma do whatever I gotta do This is the come up Where niggas hustle from night to sun up The gutta where niggas run up and they get done up And mama tryna make a dollar for son and daughter Where them times are even harder without a father Want a job but never bother All about them commas bigger diamonds and high designer With all the finest women goddess With perfect bodies that we admire This is the come up where niggas do whatever for money They'll murk a nigga now and got to church on a sunday Probably snitch on homeboys and take a flight out of country It's f**ked up the motive is to get out the hood Get your mama new crib keep your family good When that money is pouring and them jewels is shining And them cars are foreign them haters praying it storm It's no love it ain't a place for the weak Only strong survive only hustlers ride This is the come up Grinding for the ones that I love Fueled by the passion and pain And all the bullshit I've been through Still I hold my head up high And all them roadblocks I walk right through Grinding for the ones that I love I do it for the ones like me And all people who's just like you No matter what they say about me I'mma do whatever I gotta do Where niggas hustle from night to sun up And dreams are never seen 'cos they don't believe And it seems you can't achieve By any means go and get it And it ain't division anything you wishin you could live it Just better witness they said I wouldn't and I did it What God intended from being labeled as a menace to counting millions My daughter smiling every minute I mean attendance Oh Lord I got my deal in the field crying hundreds of tears Feeling like that dope boy hit a lick for a mill Ridin round with the work know them weapons concealed If the feds ever catch him need them 200 hundred years for that dough And I know money come money go And the fame and the game All the hate that it brings Man I lost some game Never changed not me Gotta survive everyday know every morning I wake I'm tryin to come up Grinding for the ones that I love Fueled by the passion and pain And all the bullshit I've been through Still I hold my head up high And all them roadblocks I walk right through Grinding for the ones that I love I do it for the ones like me And all people who's just like you No matter what they say about me I'mma do whatever I gotta do This is the come up So don't you dare give up Keep your head above the clouds And your eyes on the prize Don't you dare give up This is for the grind Grinding for the ones that I love Fueled by the passion and pain And all the bullshit I've been through Still I hold my head up high And all them roadblocks I walk right through Grinding for the ones that I love I do it for the ones like me And all people who's just like you No matter what they say about me I'mma do whatever I gotta do This is the come up One day you gon make it out the struggle Don't you worry now now now My brothers and my sisters Mama too This is the come up