Livin' my dreams   If they could see me now   See me now, oh yeah      Livin' my dreams 'cause it's all I know   Keep my head up everywhere I go   Makin' my cash, baby, that's for sure   Come on, they got me, platinum in da ghetto      P L A T I N U M   People in the 'hood for real you ought to see them   I know I must do what I can   It's the same place that took me from a boy to a man   Give it all back, only just to see us come up   Ya'll the same niggas that use to watch the laws run up   Now we concentrate on tryna be grown men   Watchin' the earth turn feelin the world spin      It's a mad psalm, tryin' to do it on your own   One day you're here and the next day gone   The sky waits for no one, I know you heard that   Everything is bad when you're broke plus black   I'm dedicated, unto my Lord I pray   Can't see the future livin' day for day   I'm workin' heard, tryin' to platinum charts   In the ghetto my hood, I've touched a million hearts, come on      Livin' my dreams 'cause it's all I know   Keep my head up everywhere I go   Makin' my cash, baby, that's for sure   Come on, they got me, platinum in da ghetto      Livin' my dreams 'cause it's all I know   Keep my head up everywhere I go   Makin' my cash, baby, that's for sure   Come on, they got me, platinum in da ghetto      My neighborhood hero, 80 or number 0   Get yours and get own for real, that's all I know   Live your dream because it's somethin' to see   And the best thing happenin' is alive and free   I took the cash money and started slicin' and cuttin'   'Cause I swear that this game ain't gon' promise you nothin'   It's a circumstance that we all go through   Some things is fake nigga, something's true      I recognize that I've been down forever   Time to pull the family up and try to do it together   I got no where to run and no where to hide   My false is my worst so I'm stuck with pride   'Cause the women and the cars, it don't equal the wealth   So I'm all about my cash, tryin' to impress myself   'Cause the man make the money, money don't make the man   If you feel what I'm sayin' then raise your right hand      Livin' my dreams 'cause it's all I know   Keep my head up everywhere I go   Makin' my cash, baby, that's for sure   Come on, they got me, platinum in da ghetto      Livin' my dreams 'cause it's all I know   Keep my head up everywhere I go   Makin' my cash, baby, that's for sure   Come on, they got me, platinum in da ghetto      It's a hard life so I'm takin' it slow   That's the G H to the E to the T T O   On a long road but I'ma ride to die   And if you thuggin' then you know just what I'm talkin' about   It's a epidemic so I take it to the limit   The hood off the chain, them folks, they still in it      You see me now and I ain't goin' too far   I got love for my people, man, whoever you are   So I'ma take it back then I'ma bring it up   I ain't the only nigga out here dodgin' bad luck   Try to feel me before I let you go and it's forever and a day   We platinum in da ghetto, in da ghetto      Livin' my dreams 'cause it's all I know   Keep my head up everywhere I go   Makin' my cash, baby, that's for sure   Come on, they got me, platinum in da ghetto      Livin' my dreams 'cause it's all I know   Keep my head up everywhere I go   Makin' my cash, baby, that's for sure   Come on, they got me, platinum in da ghetto      I'm tryin' to give back to the hood   And you see Billy Cook and Lil'ke tryin' to do somethin' good   We tryin' to give somethin' back to you, and you, and you   Livin' my dream if they could see me now, oh me now      Livin' my dreams 'cause it's all I know   Keep my head up everywhere I go   Makin' my cash, baby, that's for sure   Come on, they got me, platinum in da ghetto      Livin' my dreams 'cause it's all I know   Keep my head up everywhere I go   Makin' my cash, baby, that's for sure   Come on, they got me, platinum in da ghetto      Well I respect it, yeah   Oh, livin' my dreams, if they could see me now