[00:04.640]Need y'all *****s to feel me yo
[00:07.750]Feel my pain...
[00:10.590]Said soft *****s can't last hard time yo
[00:14.460]Believe that ****...
[00:18.120]Real *****s don't cry...
[00:22.650]Was just a youngin' with that fresh fade,bird chest,legs skinny
[00:26.510]That hoop dreaming had me tryna be the next penny
[00:29.380]Fresh pennines on my feet,momma paid for everything I'm wearing
[00:32.720]At the fair staring at girls,not a care in the world
[00:35.780]Aw.*****,but **** done changed since"Mayne"was my nickname
[00:39.040]A little ***** chasing things,tryna kick game
[00:41.630]Now I'm a man worried about my fam,let me explain
[00:44.760]Its like my pockets stay broke,and if not them ****s sprained
[00:48.150]And so I rap for my *****s trapped in the struggle
[00:51.300]Feeling like the world's on your back so you stumble
[00:53.830]And it feels like a quarterback get sacked,and then you fumble
[00:56.940]Jobs don't call a ***** back so it's back to the hustle
[00:59.840]*****s praying for they moms,at tne same time they moms pray for them
[01:03.189]Ask the Lord to stay with them,guide them on the way
[01:05.668]But damn a ***** been a lost fate
[01:07.769]It hurts on the usual
[01:09.299]The only time you catch me up at church is a funeral
[01:12.468]Sometimes sunshine turn to rain my *****
[01:15.400]The same ones you love will bring you pain,my *****
[01:18.099]I don't know if I'll see tomorrow
[01:20.950]I won't cry,no,I can't cry
[01:23.909]And in this life,times getting hard my *****
[01:27.138]But **** that,I'm aiming for the stars,my *****
[01:30.049]I won't stop,try 'til the day I die
[01:33.069]And I won't cry,no,I can't cry ,no
[01:35.379]I sit back and watch the news every now and then
[01:37.819]Either get depressed or mad from watching the world just crash
[01:41.290]Even the weathers bad
[01:42.938]It be the same ****,got my bain twisted
[01:44.870]Like damn it's '06 and *****s still up on that gang ****?
[01:48.849]Yesterday this kid got his whole frame split
[01:51.540]Only seventeen,he was finna graduate in like three weeks
[01:55.260]Some stupid *****s got him for his chain
[01:57.209]But they fought back,they blasted him and left him on the pavement
[02:01.028]And now they telling me this little girl just got raped
[02:03.918]Some dude snatched her and she was standing at the bus stop,wait
[02:06.938]Man she just eleven!!
[02:08.439]What the **** is up with this world,got these grown *****s ****ing with girls?
[02:12.310]Plus the cops harassing us,every week be blasting us,on accident,or so they claim
[02:17.530]Reporters sympathizing lie they truly know the pain
[02:20.569]They killed her only son,now her wanna blow her brains out
[02:23.849]Change the channel man I can't watch this ****...
[02:24.709]Sometimes sunshine turn to rain my *****
[02:27.519]The same ones you love will bring u pain,my *****
[02:30.379]I don't know if I'll see tomorrow
[02:33.849]But I won't cry,no,I can't cry
[02:36.329]And in this life,times getting hard my *****
[02:39.589]But **** that,I'm aiming for the stars,y *****
[02:42.269]I won't stop,try 'til the day I die
[02:45.660]And I won't cry,no,I can't cry,no
[02:48.610]Take a ride through the city man and tell me what you witness
[02:51.810]Poverty,richness,crooked cops and misfits,violence,hatred,real devastation
[02:57.629]Neighborhoods looking like there's still segregation
[03:00.810]Welfare,single mothers,no jobs,tryna get a piece for yourself,but they hogging up the whole pie
[03:07.019]Fiegns in the street so high off of that crack ****,this ***** thirteen with a gat under his mattress
[03:12.699]Whith folks got the road to success mapped and that's all good
[03:16.739]Why don't black's got that same atlas?
[03:18.889]I asked the same questions a million ways
[03:21.599]And it seems like I had prayed for a million days
[03:24.699]Still the ills remain just bills and pain
[03:27.869]Shoot outs and project buildings,children slain
[03:30.849]Skies filled with rain and I just sit and wonder why
[03:33.919]Its enough to make a ***** wanna cry
[03:36.239]But I can't though...
[03:36.799]Sometimes sunshine turn to rain my *****
[03:39.949]The same ones you love will bring you pain,my *****
[03:42.729]I don't know if I'll see tomorrow
[03:46.000]But I won't cry,no,I can't cry
[03:48.519]And in this life,times getting hard my *****
[03:52.019]But **** that,I'm aiming for the stars,my *****
[03:54.769]I won't stop,try 'til the day I die
[03:58.039]And I won't cry,no,I can't cry,no