[talking:]

One time, welcome to the ghetto



[Hook:]

All I know is hustling, and striving and feeling pain

Each and everyday, I'm surviving stuck in the game

Gotta get this money, this cash that's all I know

Done came a long way, but got far to go



[Lil' Keke:]

Alright just check it out, I know I'm living a life of sin

A thug coming up, trying to find a way to win

I'm on my knees, asking the Lord to give me help

I'm trying to make a difference, doing bad for myself

I'm on a bumpy road, so that's all I really know

Trying to slide through the do', but the money coming slow

I hustle up, and try to get some recognition

Steady searching for my soul, trying to stay up out the kitchen

This rap game, got my head leaning back

Got my family at the house, so I'm trying to make a stack

In a dirty world, but I'm trying to make a switch

But the game crawling up, it's so hard to get rich

I'm concentrating, trying to stash what I got

Record company CEO's, all these boys trying to plot

Trying to hold me a spot, trying to get me some fame

Got love for the pain, that I get from the game uh



[Hook x2]



[Lil' Keke:]

I know I'm right there, so I'm working a lil' harder

Doing show after show, trying to stay above water

CD's got me grinding, the mic got me shining

Paying attention close, to the charts I'm climbing

I'm a hustler, really trying to get it how I live

Staying in battle mode, cause it's real in the field

I'm a soldier, fighting against the game I love

From the tears to the sweat, on down to the blood

Gotta get mine, with no time to rewind

These niggaz be left behind, out here losing they mind

But I'm trying to find, another life other than grind

Niggaz be giving up, but I'm steady putting it down

So I changed up, now I'm Lil' Keke the Don

Doing hits across the world, with that Poetic 1

We some trend setters, with these haters to blame

I ain't gon never give it up man, I love this game uh



[Hook x2]



[Lil' Keke:]

I say never say never, a part of the G code

Drinking on that drank, I'm smoking and staying blowed

Whatever it takes, to put my mind at ease

I need the moola the cash, gotta have that cheese

A lot of bad habits, got me working overtime

Constantly trying to shine, got a nigga left behind

The repercussions, will make a gangsta change

Keep my head to the sky, cause I love this game uh



[Hook x2]