The Big Bang
Been Through It All
Busta Rhymes
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[Chorus: Stevie Wonder]
Been through the storm, through the cold and rain
Everything's✦ still the same
Can't control✦ how I feel
Sometimes✦ it's hard to keep it real
You see the luxuries in life, with the fortune and fame
Like them Cadillacs with sunroofs mane
So many✦ ways to make a dollar
Huh, sometimes✦ I think about✦ my father✦
You see my poppa✦ was broke, and my momma✦ was young
Tryna✦ blend in with them city✦ folk
Every✦ day landlord knockin' down my do'
Wonderin' where my next blessing is comin'✦ from
[Verse 2: Busta Rhymes]
Got a little older,✦ late teens, me and my crew would huddle
On the corner✦ late nights, plottin' to escape✦ struggle
Nights got cold and still would hustle in the same place
In front of Pancho✦ Delis, now the freeze up on a nigga✦ face
1987 Reaganomics ever✦ curious✦
To visit✦ other✦ cities, out of town kick was serious✦
Guayanese jeans bounce, put whatever✦ slinger✦ on
Whatever✦ slinger✦ came back, quickly brought me right along
Nigga✦ ran away✦ from home
Doin' different wild shit, just to put a pair of Filas✦ on, 'Didas✦ on
Wreck is all for the good, gettin'✦ into✦ shit
Like we innocent, actin✦ older✦ than we should
Walk around broke in the hood, watchin' all the rich niggas✦
These younger thugs who try to choke and try to get niggas✦
Thinkin' 'bout my mom and pop, while I'm monopolizin✦
To hell with just gettin'✦ by and economizin'✦
It's kinda✦ hard bein humble in the belly✦ of struggle
Doin things that probably get you in trouble
That's why we stay up on the block, gettin✦ money✦ while we keepin'✦ it safe
In front of churchgoers keepin'✦ the faith
Mom and Pop be worryin' for they son
Despite they struggle and their honest livin'✦ look and see just what I become✦
A scavenger, in brute pursuit to be happy,✦ another young'n that's wildin'✦
Across the line until somebody tryna✦ cap me - ohhhh shit {*gunfire*}
[Outro: Stevie Wonder - singer slower with more ad libs]
I been through the storm
Through the cold and rain
Everything's✦ still the same
Can't control✦ how I feel
Sometimes✦ it's hard to keep it real
Woo-whoah
Yeah-ohhhhhhhhhhhhahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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