Track byElla Fitzgerald
Uh, this goes out to Everybody with they head up Keep it up baby [Qua Billz] How many y'all had ever sleep out on park benches When cops came we hit the fences We stole food outta Poppi store e'ryday He freaked out when his baby girl passed away I'm sheddin' tears for my homies who are now gone If that's your man get revenge and keep his name strong She just a victim of the ghetto, and she hate it now Cause she gettin' money on the corner and got a baby now They sprayed us down and used whips but couldn't hold us back Don't be ashamed of where you from and show the world you black I'm one of the few that could make it out these ghetto streets Cause I refuse to have to murder just so I can eat I'm livin' life like a king cause I'm supposed to Worship my women like a queen, not a ho you And I can show you how the definite can feed ya kids And in return all I ask is that you let me live [Chorus] Can I live One loss I give Can I live One loss I give (I gotta do it, I gotta do it) Can I Live [Qua Billz] I wake up early in the mornin', five times I will pray Lord forgive me of my sins, and can I make another day My hearts bleed for the life that this glamour holds All the money and the women I think it's takin' control See you a victim of your own life You didn't ask God for parents that'll hit the pipe For neighborhoods with apartments that were roach infested For no heat and now you're telephone's disconnected I remember when we had to use candles just for light Blowin' out the cold smoke from the bed at night My whole world's now, Ramera Tatianna Lawson I may like bein' a father, when I ain't flossin' But my life's the only thing that really kept me goin' Sometimes I still can't believe that I made it flowin' I could show you how to be legit as a kid And in return all I ask is that you can let me live [Chorus] Can I Live (Can I Live) One loss I give (Give oh yeah) Can I Live (Oh yes) One loss I give (I gotta do it, I gotta do it) Can I live [Qua Billz] Death is devine, my rhymes light Be penetratin' through your mind like, they highlights My mic's like a wrist to me Simp-e-ly I'ma a man makin' history Burnin' this paper after people gettin' cancer Meetin' these ladies, from the models to the dancers Takin' ladies to the clubs, take 'em to the hotel The motel, gimme two, so they both yell Look at me, I got, money, you swear I had a disease When you need to cut it please, we all in it for G's A straight warrior, going out for mine on these streets Remember when I had to do it for me and my brother to eat But I ain't never looking back cause all the problems is gone 'Scept all my people keep on dying when all the babies is born I changed the styles without a tool, favor and dad's call It's a long way to Heaven, but it's longer to fall [Chorus to fade] [Qua Billz over chorus] This goes out, to the recent Notorious B.I.G. And Tupac Shakur, put ya guns down yo Time for us to start gettin' We deserve it baby Keep ya head up