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