[Waah Dean]
Yeah. Better✦ play by the rules
Cause I'm tellin'✦ you lotta✦ niggas turn fools
Get lost in the system and get jammed✦ with the 9
Telling' you man respect my man Cass
It's for real on the field. This is wiser✦ talking'
Fuck what ya heard
[Cassidy]✦ (Swizz)
(Let's go)
I always tried to do it big but had small paper✦
Now I'm going big my friends want small favors
I'll see ya'll later✦ cause I'm trying stack
& ya'll just trying keep my back against✦ the wall paper✦
You think it's easy✦ to rap -- this shit hard labor
I put years in; blood, sweat, & tears in
Plug ya ears in cause this real talk & this some true shit
We all go through shit
See baby✦ girl she got a seed on the way
An' she 'on't know how she gonna✦ feed her little seed everyday✦
Another✦ young brother✦ gonna✦ bleed everyday✦
We in the gutta✦ that's why we smoke weed everyday✦
Daddy✦ locked✦ but he innocent
He can't afford a lawyer✦ and his public defender a degenerate
An' mommy✦ she just heard her daughter call
She ain't got no lights & they 'bout to cut her water✦ off
[Dee Dean]
Uh, you know we all gonna✦ pay
A matter✦ ah time, we gonna✦ live though
Don't even✦ worry✦ bout it. Just a matter✦ of time
We be straight. Do what you gotta✦ do
Stay focused. Gotta✦ put ya time in
You don't put no time in you ain't gonna✦ get nothing✦ out of this
So you put ya time in, now it's your time, let's make it happen✦
[Cassidy]
I'm trying get out the gutta✦ look I don't grind for nothing✦
This so my little brother✦ won't be deprived for nothing✦
Dodging' ducking'✦ busting' feasting'
In police✦ handcuffs going up the precinct
You could get stuck up by the sluts you sleep with
While you eating✦ it, sucking✦ it, fucking✦ it, creeping it
Even✦ our young bucks is stuck on some street shit
Cutting school, puffin',✦ plus they freaking,✦ cussing, speaking✦ outrageously
I'm trying get from route A to Z; get a house, play the V
Get a spouse, make a seed, relax and live
The kid Cassidy✦ tell it how it actually is
I been stacking bread but 'fore you look I'm gone
An' I'mma✦ crook every✦ song they put me on
An' it ain't no questioning that
Man I know I'mma✦ blow I just pray for the rest of you cats
[Swizz Beatz]
That's what I'm saying man uh huh
You know the industry is what it is
The streets is what it is
It's a struggle
By the end of the day ya back is against✦ the wall
For real how you gonna✦ come up out of that
It's on you man (it's on you dog)