[Intro]
When I do better, my family does better, my friends do better, we feed off each other
But that don't mean the hood doing better or the world doing better
My people need help, my people need hope
I done well for myself but I'm never too blind to see the struggle
I know how they feel, they starving, and desperate times calls for desperate measures
I was there yesterday and if something goes wrongs, I can be there tomorrow

[Verse 1]
From that one bedroom apartment all the way to Paris where your n***a went
Just to meet some hoes with French benefits
Your n***a in his prime, I'm an optimist
Now watch me kick these rhymes like a hockey disc or soccer, bitch, said I wouldn't shine, did the opposite
In Baltimore they loving me, Brooklyn said they loving me, and Hollywood I'm popping like some bubbly, y'all

[Bridge]
Well, dammit mama your same boy with grammar problems taking that same grammar to the Grammy's
Isn't it ironic? My phonics got the whole hood thinking I'm bionic
Let me be honest, you can't be Geppetto with no wood
Promise the hood and the ghetto that I return like the Jedi
Visine on hand in case I catch a red-eye
My quote just went up the flows have gotten better
Don't forget la familia we started this together

[Hook]
They say we won't make it but we goin be okay
Gotta let em know they can't break us and we goin be okay
They say we won't make it but we goin be okay
Gotta let em know they can't break us and we goin be okay

[Verse 2]
Yeah and if this was as easy as it seems everybody would be busting out the seams
The older folks who quit and gave up on their dreams can't afford the finer things so they tryna warn the teens
But they ain't listening, nah, they ain't disciplined
Rather be in the kitchen, Malcolm X by any means
The internet they loving me, the TV screen they loving me, but the world is yet to discover me, y'all
No second guessing it to anyone who has to question it
You're prisoners so get behind these bars that I was blessed with
This for my single moms living month-to-month
This is for team struggle living blunt-to-blunt

[Bridge]

[Hook]

[Outro]
Smile for me, baby
We going be all right
We going lead the fight