Hey nigga!    Wake up you gotta go to your grandfather funeral    Come on! Let's go!    Come on boy! Get your ass up!       Take the damn jewelry off! (i'm fine ma)    Just put it on the dresser don't give me no lip!          Hey yo!    I never claimed to be hard, tough no homo    Gangsta none of the above    Just a kid from 140th and Lennox Ave.    Harlem USA tryin to make his way in the world ya heard    know through the trials and tribulations that life brings    i lost some friends    incarcerated some are gone forever    you know you can't expect everything from everybody    so get up get out and get somethin    thats what i did       Before i had the hammer cocked a santana rock    little gerv grandpa jerry grandma dot (thats my fam)    uncle carl uncle ted uncle steve uncle bill    cousin steve cousin bill up on the hill now (wuddup ya'll)    my aunt normie i dont speak to my aunt dida    or my cousin bathsheba love my mother fredrika(wuddup ma)    neighbor frita daughter raven and neeka    down another doorbell was that nigga warnell    he gave birth to the best mc's you never heard    lever after lever and was clever with whatever word    derek armstead bloodshed from C.O.C    he did damage road manage by G.O.D    aka Gupta God he was stupid hard    sixteen a bitch dream had stupid cars    ?? '68 hooptie '75 still drive some bullshit    i dont know why, i love the nigga though    for him put cris in the air first one diss him in here    i swear i'll risk my career    thats a fact thing aint talkin no rap shit    i'm talkin that mack clip    niggas will backflip act sick    my dudes study the savage    no beef veggie nigga maybe some catfish    he could have my house    he could take my mauries    he could drive my car    this ain't east side story    thats why my dudes love me i let them do them    you either gonna be rich or famous fuckin wit me    probably both    if you happen to brush shoulders with me by accident    play lotto, 9 out of 10 times you gon win nigga       Chorus: (Nicole Wray)    Play the game    Sure to win    They all up on me know they want my ends    I sacrifice    I roll the dice    I love my hood    I love my life (2X)       See a boss i prepared to be    When i walk away from a confrontation    i ain't scared of you i'm scared of me    I got a gun you don't, so if flares you'll see    After that a 5000 vault chair for me    So i move carefully, niggas don't care for me    who care i don't    you share i won't    calm down (uhh uhh) breathe again    i dont do extortion unless i'm on the receiving end    talk to my money    first time i heard her speak thats word to me    told me i deserve to eat    move to a killa ave right from a murder street    rock adidas forms even though they hurt my feet    i dont look in the sky nevermind stars    know some fine stars right behind bars    Snags, Black, Do on house arrest    Seep, Sheep won't even through out the rest    they wanted my ass right alongside Zeek    turn myself in nope play hide and go seek    i'm gone put the clip in the chrome    yeah i'm just like a fly see the shit that i'm on    and hour after hour i would chill at the after hours    where they flash the powder no bath or shower    in that same spot realized math is power    so i point at the mansion that is ours       Chorus       Can you feel me heal me yeah