I give it straight like the trajectory of a stray to a bystander
Refuse to walk on all fours I rather die standing
Trying to live to a standard that wasn't meant for mine
I live my life to the fullest by keeping death in mind
My people lost how much does peace and freedom cost
How do I chase money without losing my soul to an evil source?
My people get mocked and laughed at
Shot and slapped at
Worldstar is a joke gotta get passed that
Bottles in hand spending dollars on brands
Riding on dollar vans and only seen ya daughter through a sonogram
No father since our forefathers
Living with no knowledge of self but we the most stylish
So childish, celebrating being broke and selling dope
Hell is cold the devil welcomes you to sell ya soul
Make ya record blow have u sounding silly yo
Thinking you a goon but you a coon looking clownish in ya video
Six lane highway that leads straight to a jail cell
Police trained well while the drugs hitting ya brain cells
Hoes in the Poconos
Coke in our nose and broken hopes it's a slope
We at the bottom on this totem pole
My soul is sad, bottom of the social ladder
We pros at acting like shit all good life is a prophylactic
You don't build yourself by hating someone else
We all want the same thing it's everybody for themselves
I'm tired of fighting against my own common sense is gone
Showing dominance with chrome life turned my heart to stone
Halogen dome, born only to create starving for years
Desperation was the only food we ate
No one taught us to be great our role models were pimps
Drug dealers, blood spillers, slug peelers
So fuck feelings, it tough living when you failing
With no road maps or direction in the ocean while you sailing
On the road to riches and diamond rings
This the sacrifice we make just to live
On the road to riches and diamond rings
This the sacrifice we make just to live
On the road to riches and diamond rings
This the sacrifice we make just to live
On the road to riches and diamond rings
This the sacrifice we make just to live
Companies are making money off us
Our moral compass is off
Record companies is making offers like slaves in auctions
They warned us in the past to take precaution
I'm lost already kid I just wanna save my offspring
So I talk it from the heart and share my life with you
Much rather that then fight with you
The right situation will have u doing dumb shit
Got me thinking of my crew in D.C., I used to run with
I had to motivate out and change my path
The youth in the street play with guns like a game of laser tag
Got a taste of that
Bitterness lingered inside my mouth
Crib to crib, body tired, surfing on another couch
Back spasms from playing ball on cement
Always worked for mine
While some would get it all on the strength now they all convinced
Trying to figure out the magic pill but
How you gonna get the
Mass to feel you when you lack the real?
And I just spoke cataloguing all my soul in the bars
From the days of analogue tapes when I rolled in the car
Soul of a star not celebrities the ones in the sky
We only show appreciation when one of us dies
Numbers lie, so don't believe all you hear
It's politics a lot of tricks
Knowledge without any wisdom's nonsense
Selfish and divided, self-entitled
They call us entertainers never recognized myself in the title
My brain itself is idle, that's when the devil enters
How do I put myself first without becoming self centered?
Feel like someone else everytime I hear
Myself get mentioned like there's something
Over me staring from the next dimention
It's... puzzling sometimes I think about it
Music's too precious and I know that I can't live without it
Let it resonate like bass in section eight
I just pray and leave the negative for yesterday
On the road to riches and diamond rings
This the sacrifice we make just to live
On the road to riches and diamond rings
This the sacrifice we make just to live
On the road to riches and diamond rings
This the sacrifice we make just to live
On the road to riches and diamond rings
This the sacrifice we make just to live