[00:01.75]Man if I get rocked this shit for my kids nigga
[00:05.75]It's that real shit
[00:08.75]Even though what we do is wrong
[00:10.16]We still hustle 'til the sun come up
[00:12.55]Crack a 40 when the sun go down
[00:14.64]It's a cold winter
[00:16.07]Y'all niggaz better bundle up
[00:17.80]And I bet it be a hotter summer  grab a onion
[00:20.91]Yes the ROC gets down  you hot now  listen up
[00:23.03]Don't you know cops' whole purpose is to lock us down
[00:25.94]And throw away the key
[00:27.80]But without this drug shit
[00:28.79]Your kids ain't got no way to eat huh
[00:32.58]We still try to keep Mom smilin'
[00:34.80]Cuz when the teeth stop showin'
[00:35.72]And the stomach start growlin'
[00:38.96]Then the heat start flowin'
[00:39.91]If you from the hood I know you feel me
[00:41.37]If a sneak start leanin' and the heat stop workin'
[00:44.07]Then my heat start workin' I'm-a rob me a person
[00:46.60]Catch a nigga sleepin' while he out in the open
[00:48.59]And I'ma get him flowin' )
[00:52.14]We gotta raise our kids while we livin'
[00:50.26]Make a million off-a record bail my niggaz outta prison
[00:55.85]F**k a Bentley or a Lexus just my boys in the squadder
[00:58.77]Nigga talk reckless then I hit 'em with the Smif 'n
[01:01.92]But I'm never snitchin' I'm a rider
[01:03.79]If my kids hungry snatch the dishes out ya kitchen
[01:06.42]I'll be wylin' til they pick me outta line-up
[01:11.77]We keep the nines tucked  chopped dimes up  rap about it
[01:14.54]Wyle out  f**k niggaz up  laugh about it
[01:17.19]I'm not tryin' to visit the morgue
[01:18.84]But Freeway move out 'til I sit with the Lord
[01:20.24]'Til I get my shit together  clean up my sins
[01:23.91]Freeway got it in like 10 in the mornin'
[01:26.51]And I can get it to ya like 10 while you yawnin' mang
[01:32.59]Still deliver the order mang
[01:34.73]And I ain't talkin' bout chicken and gravy mang
[01:37.29]I'm talkin' bout bricks 'o ye-yo  halves and quarters
[01:40.00]4 and a halves of hash you do the math
[01:42.38]Swing past us scoop up your daughter
[01:44.55]She wanna roll wit' a thug that rap  you do the math
[01:47.16]He won't blast 'til my stacks in order mang
[01:49.75] MANG  Lemme get 'em Free
[01:52.16]Hove never slackin' mang  zippin' in the black Range
[01:54.85]Faster than the red ghost  gettin' ghost wit' Pac-Mang
[01:57.31]One-time know a got a knack to get that change
[01:59.82]Leader of the black gang  R-O-C mang
[02:02.22]Bang like T-Mac  ski mask air it out
[02:05.02]Gotta kill witnesses 'cause Free's beard's stickin' out
[02:07.46]Y'all don't want no witness shit  we squeeze hammers mang
[02:10.04]Bullets breeze by you  like Lousiana mang
[02:13.37]But I gotta feed Tianna mang
[02:15.06]So I move keys you can call me the Piano Man
[02:17.87]Rain sleet  hail snow man
[02:20.31]Slang dough  E  hydro man
[02:23.05]No  B. Sige in the third lane
[02:25.45]Gramps still prayin' workin on my nerves man
[02:27.92]Like  "Son you gotta get your soul clean
[02:30.80]Before they blow them horns like Coltrane "
[02:33.33]But still I cry tears of a hustler
[02:35.26]Wipe tears from my mother  pull out beers for her brothers
[02:37.57]That's above us  make beds for the babies
[02:40.20]Tuck kids under covers  buy cribs for their mothers
[02:43.18]Shit I'll probably be wylin' with their fathers
[02:45.33]Tell Ms. Robert  tell Enijah that I'm ridin' for her father
[02:48.14]That's like my brother  like same mother different father
[02:51.23]Any problems dog know I got 'em
[02:53.90]And still we grind from the bottom
[02:55.58]Just to make it to the bottom sold crack in the alleyways
[02:58.46]Still gave back Marcy a Dollar Day
[03:01.13]Real gangstas make hood holidays
[03:03.60]They ain't thank us but we still paid homage mang
[03:06.02]Soul Food Sunday lookin' like Big Momma's mang
[03:08.10]Tell the gang I never break my promise mang mang uh