[Big Gipp]

Look out the sun is out while its raining

The devils wife must be complaining

Remember that? its brothers work

Elbows in and up and down the court

Cause they play ball long after dark at Sykes park

Smelled the rain before it came

But that don't stop the game

Intense inside the twelve feet fence

Flip the mode back on the road set in

And watch my woodgrain spin

I let my window down and let the world in

Since I was knee high the only thing we had was the peachtree plaza in the sky

Things ain't the same no more

Everyday my city seems to grow and grow

Gotta blow a bed for my back

Cause I can't take the hardwood floors

Crooked system had me working in the warehouse

from 8 to 4 so

Gipp know what it is to work for them foes for a check that don't mean shit

More bills keep coming in

But ain't no saving

Used to scrape up a buck for a box of newports

But after I found out

That they was fucking with the tobac I stopped

Its like killing myself with a glock (pow)

Its rough

Prices going up people giving in

To the rockets and hernon homes is known

By the city to be toxic but ain't nothin said

Always on the down low never in the mainstream

It ain't king

To be the fulltime

Blow a man these days you get years

And even though..

My cousin writes me from the pen

I always think about how we kicked it at the Dungeon fo' he went in

What's next?

My slick partner Toby is gone

Went to handle a little business never made it back home

I wonder what his girl told his son.......

Hold on



[T-Mo]

I can't escape the bullshit

Where ever I go shit

Always into something cause I wanna be rich

Pulling cards in my blood it seems I'm mean cause of my look

I might blast off on ya ass and write another book

It took too many times in the cage

Now I'm on the front page looking at myself

I'm on the run

Never to be seen by the eyes

A fugitive

Plus I got a life to live

State by state

Is this just a dream?

Sometimes it seems like it just a figure standing in the mirror from the back

That's why I'm swinging my axe

Everytime so I won't miss I can be hit

Cause I'm touchable

That's my state of mind

Cause I know one day you gotta go in a life of crime

Either the pen or a one way ticket

So I'm asking "what will it be"?

"Where do I solve"?

Nobody knows but me see

When I was a youth used to think I was bulletproof

Never thought I could be hit

Ready to stand my turf

Niggaz can't understand how it work

What's the plan?

We killing our own people for this bullshit

Scared straight wanna escape theres one way outta this crooked county

with a bounty

Coming to get me

Then i'd be on the run

Hoping to find a better day without loaded guns in my face

I'm not the criminal

Fuck your probation

What's my occupation? Selling my dubbs on the street

Cause I gotta eat

Hold on



[Khujo]

Am I awake or is this just another dream?

I pinch myself invisible bars cover my cage

Done lost all conception of time

Trapped in my own mind

Unaware of the world in front or behind

Be trying

To catch up with myself

Evil doers steady working

Guest be leaching off of my wealth

Can't wait for my death

But got me fucked up

Aint man enough

Nigga you got false nuts

Bouncing like rubber balls off the walls

The life we supposed to be living y'all

Them crackers got boxed up

We ain't even the middle men

But..yet... free my mind of confusion

Jehovah witnesses waking me up out my slumber

Using white rice and ??

Stomach aching be still hunger for the taking at the bottom of my barrel

Fuck ass! and being nice ain't got me nathan

But a frown

Too high to get down

Hold on nigga



[Cee-Lo]

You don't know me

And I ain't tryna claim I be knowing you

But I do understand what you going through

Seems like you running outta time

In and out of crime

And everybody ain't gon be able to rhyme..damn!

It must be hard to hold on when your faith is gone

Mmmm...tryna make it all alone

Sometimes you gotta swallow your pride and let the lord decide

You can't hide from the truth I know we've all tried

And I agree its hard to believe in what you can't see

"Well, shit nigga what you keep telling me to hold on for? I'm stuck in

the ghetto wit no where to go, I gotta slang that blow"

"You call yourself tryna teach, seems like I'm outta reach

cause I don't wanna hear another speech

this is all I know how to get up get out and get...

...so fuck that shit!!



[Chorus]

Hold on, be strong, it ain't gon be that long

them folks won't do you wrong

the name of the song is hold on, be strong

it ain't gon be that long

them folks won't do you wrong

the name of the song is hold on, is hold on



Ey, now I'm chiln in the lounge and dis girl gon walk in the bathroom

she

said "damm you look cute, but y you ain't got no tattoos?"

I said "I aint

come 2 look cute...cool came 2 cut!"

"and damm you look cute!, y you aint

got no butt?"(ooooh)_coolbreeze