I'm sitting at the edge of my bed and I'm fed   Up with negative thoughts running straight through my head   Life's ready and I can't make moves, it's hard   And I thought it would have been nice to buy papa dukes some shoes      Niggas try to get over, pressure on my shoulders   Dropped the fat LP in '91 of October   Now that I'm older and my man pops is gone   My focus is stronger, mom pick up your head, gotta move on      Do you remember, Mr. J used to say the beats was fat?   But when it comes to business, nigga, don't play   I look beyond all this stress to seek fate   Mad homicides, unemployment rates sky high      Shorty busting caps, cops caught him out there   Daytime drama and his mama didn't care   That's why I should be rapping and packing pistols on the bully   But niggas be stressing me and I ain't paid in fully      So I'm dropping something fatter, not for props   We're respecting the matter, hops   I'm fat, check my stats, Prince drops data for me and my man Pops   Rolls Royce and myself are always getting mad, harassed by the cops      So now I'm in the chop shop creating masterpieces   So it don't matter, money, what my funny label releases   Thanks to the streets and my peeps that made me   And the la-la-lee, la-la-lee      We gotta maintain, we gotta maintain   We gotta maintain, we gotta maintain   We gotta maintain, we gotta maintain   We gotta maintain, we gotta maintain      Now it's been said, a grown man ain't supposed to cry   So why are there tears inside my eyes?   I wake up in the morning, get some new problem   I just can't solve 'em, yo, extreme kid, I'm telling you man   I'm on the brink of [unverified]      Who's that man in the mirror? Ha   The picture's getting clearer and clearer, ha   The end is coming nearer and nearer, ha   Take a good look at what you fear, ha      Time marches on and it's a new song   It's a new morning, it's a new dawn   Feet don't fail me now, I got to make it to the studio someway   Somehow, but I need a little bit of nourishment first      I stop at the store to quench my thirst   Why are they watching me buy my juice?   Why must they clock my buy my juice?   Just give me my change and please put my change in my hand      Man, would you listen to me if I didn't have a tan?   All you have to do is show some decency   But you want to bring out the beast in me   Papa always told me, be all you can be and maintain, gotta maintain      [Unverified]