[00:00:15] you know though nothin\' come easy, [00:00:19] you gotta try real, real hard [00:00:23] i tried hard, [00:00:24] but i guess i gotta try harder. [00:00:27] i tried so hard, can\'t seem to get away from misery, [00:00:32] man i tried so hard, but always be a victim of these streets, [00:00:38] it ain\'t my fault cause i, try to get away but trouble follows me, [00:00:44] and still i try so hard, hopin one day they\'ll come and rescue me, [00:00:50] but until then, i\'ll be posted up right here rain, sleet, hail, snow (hail snow) [00:00:56] but until then, i\'ll be posted up right here with my heat gettin dough (gettin\' dough) [00:01:02] first, let me explain that i\'m just a black man, [00:01:04] and i come from the darkside, so i\'m havin a hard time stayin on track man, [00:01:07] my mind be racin\', and i don\'t even know what i\'m chasin yet [00:01:10] been in and out of relationships, i\'m startin to see that it\'s me where the complications at [00:01:12] but i\'m layin back, prayin\' that, you get that piece of mind of me [00:01:14] i thought i was right, but really i\'m wrong, but again i was too blind to see, [00:01:20] i was in the fast lane chasin my dream, [00:01:23] and then it seemed when the fame and cash came, they just got me, [00:01:25] goin crazyyyy, (lately, lately) lately i been so faded trying to erase it, [00:01:31] but i just can\'t cause the drama just grows greater, [00:01:32] and i been in so many collisions by puttin shit off till later. [00:01:37] i tried so hard, can\'t seem to get away from misery, [00:01:42] man i tried so hard, but always be a victim of these streets, [00:01:49] it ain\'t my fault cause i, try to get away but trouble follows me, [00:01:55] and still i try so hard, hopin one day they\'ll come and rescue me, [00:02:00] but until then, i\'ll be posted up right here rain, sleet, hail, snow (hail snow) [00:02:07] but until then, i\'ll be posted up right here with my heat gettin dough (gettin\' dough) [00:02:12] it\'s like i\'m takin five steps forward, and ten steps back [00:02:15] tryna get ahead of the game but i can\'t seem to get it on track [00:02:18] and i keep runnin away the ones that say they love me the most [00:02:21] how could i create the distance when it\'s supposed to be close? and uh, [00:02:24] i just don\'t know but i be out here fightin demons and [00:02:28] it\'s like the curse that i can\'t shake this part of cleveland and [00:02:30] lord, would you help me? and stop this pain [00:02:32] i keep inflinctin on my family (family) [00:02:37] hustlin and gamblin, drinkin\' and scramblin\' [00:02:40] and losin sight of what i supposed to be handlin\' [00:02:43] it\'s hard to manage cause every days a challenge and man [00:02:46] and i\'m slippin can\'t lose my balance and tryin not to panic [00:02:48] i tried so hard, can\'t seem to get away from misery, [00:02:53] man i tried so hard, but always be a victim of these streets, [00:02:59] it ain\'t my fault cause i, try to get away but trouble follows me, [00:03:05] and still i try so hard, hopin one day they\'ll come and rescue me, [00:03:10] but until then, i\'ll be posted up right here rain, sleet, hail, snow (hail snow) [00:03:16] but until then, i\'ll be posted up right here with my heat gettin dough (gettin\' dough) [00:03:23] i see thangs won\'t change (won't change) i\'m stuck in the game [00:03:26] as soon as i get out it keeps pullin me back man (pullin me back man) [00:03:29] got me doin\' dirty dirt, so used to this hustlin money, [00:03:32] that i don\'t understand no nine to five work [00:03:34] studied on the streets, hustlas know what i mean [00:03:38] thugstas ballin\' before us i\'m tryna make that major league [00:03:41] so we never leave never till the sun came up (came up) [00:03:44] gotta get it nope, no leavin, no grudge (no grudge) today games they play gotta go hard to get what you put in, [00:03:51] if you fall off then its all on you (on you) gotta watch what you sign too, try so hard but i won\'t act a fool. [00:03:57] i tried so hard, can\'t seem to get away from misery, [00:04:03] man i tried so hard, but always be a victim of these streets,