[Hook]

I tried fry, now what in the fuck it do for me

A damn thang, now that fried shit is history

I tried snorts, had to leave the dust alone

Cause in that mind state, you can't get your hustle on



[E.S.G.]

Responsibilities, and priorities

It's up to me to be a G, wanna succeed

Responsibilities, and priorities

It's up to me to be a G, wanna succeed

This for them G's running that game, claiming they down with you

But once you're broke with nothing to smoke, no one around with you

Leave it alone better get gone, before you do a whole zone

Drugs'll end your career, or yeah heard the same song

Put the blame on, anybody doing me wrong

When all I need to do, is get on my knees and pray and be strong

Been blessed for so long, the Lord is on his throne

He telling me my chest gone, so now it's the microphone

Mama screaming pop dreaming, wonder where his son at

I keep it up be out of luck, I'll probably have a cardiac

Arrest best know that I'm blessed, for minorities

If a G wanna succeed, best to get priorities

Or lying 'fore you find, you can't shine doing time

Been there done that, don't wanna press rewind

So this mastermind, designed a way to get it on

Recognized responsibilities, and leave that bullshit alone



[Hook]



[E.S.G.]

Man it's so hard, to survive in this game

With all these trials and tribulations, I felt you might get mayn

Steady putting that shit on my brain, and helping me maintain

After the hype get down, I look around I see the pain

Man it's real in this game, the streets don't give a damn

A lot of niggaz went broke, behind the funky ass ram

Some don't understand, where the sherm'll take ya

Off the ledge flat on your head, to meet your damn maker

Keep my mind on my paper, I get high on this money

Don't wait to fall broke, to go to church on a Sunday

Peer pressure don't run me, fuck follow the leader

I be damned if I go wild, being a under achiever

So all you nonbelievers, that think that I returned

They thought that I'd come short, to the snorts and the sherm

You boys best to learn, can't hold me down man

I keep coming keep coming, so check the soundscan



[Hook x2]



[E.S.G.]

This is your brain on drugs, saw the commercial

Damn that shit'll hurt you, when all your friends dessert you

Your gal wanna search you, cause all the trust is gone

Been up two days in a row, don't you know the dust is gone

Can't get your hustle on, what's wrong with your mind state

That shit got you shook, and you done took the crime rate

Opened up the notch, don't you see where it got me

In and out of jail, plus some jackers almost shot me

Crackers wanna knock me, so do the shife

Like Jigga nigga, this a hard knock life

And y'all call it keeping it real, but y'all ain't keeping us alive

We best to open our eyes, and learn to survive

Without the fo'-five, or that desert eagle blade

Check my laptop Macintosh, squashing shit the legal way

Responsibility, can you define that term

Or them guys around the corner, so you boys better learn



[Hook x2]