[T.I. - talking]  Ay I'm working here, know what I'm saying  Try to put yourself in my shoes for a second  Its not personal I'm just sayin though    [Verse 1]  Ay look  From when the moon came out 'till the sun came up  I was supplyin the days when where they flame up  Our mamas passing, by trying to explain us  Pissing in the bushes like they never house trained us  But, try to understand thats how we came up  You get to know us, you'll love us but you can't change us (naw)  Really we rather be rich and famous  But in the mean time were forced to slang dust  'Dro or crack cocaine, Penicillin to Rogaine  Ecstacy, Viagra, whatever'll get the dough mayne  Im tired of people mis-representing my dough mayne  Oh you think we out here killing for nothing, hustling  for no gain (picture that)    [Hook (sample playing in the background)]  Hey man I'm just doing my job  Hey lady, don't mind me I'm just doing my job  I don't wanna make your life more harder, I'm just doin my job  You live here, I work here I'm doing my job    [Verse 2]  I don't know if you don't know, don't care or can't see  Every time something up in the hood, it ain't me  And I ain't always up to no good and know the crease  And we ain't always gotta pass through the hood without speaking (how you doing)  We ain't out here threatining your lives, raping your children  We just out here staying alive, making a million (you know)  Working hard, trying to survive chasing a mill-ion  You hear us talking loud, just think of this is chamelion  React to the situations, but accusations is still  We vulgarizing you how...hey man you just hurting my feelings (maaan).  We got lives, we wanna live nice too  We got moms, dads, wives, kids just like you  But our options are few it hell in high school  When your helping with the rent lights and the gas bill too  So before you go judging us loving us won't hurt  Yeah under 25, staying alive is hard work    [Hook]    [Verse 3]  And for you to see what I'm saying, open eyes will help  If you could think about somebody besides yourself  Why you pointing fingers at me, analyze yourself  Quit all that chastising and try to provide some help  Instead of calling the law, you busting my balls  With all due respect, we don't even need to be fucking with y'all (maan)  And we can't help it cause it is like this  We don't like it no more than you that we live like this  Always stuck in the grind summertime to wintertime  Cutting school to sell fifty dimes by dinner time  See everything we know we learned from the streets  Since thirteen I've been hustling and earning my keep    [Hook]