[mack 10]

This song is dedicated

To all the up and coming rapperssingershustlersactors

Whatever you may be remember:

Without no struggleyou get no progress

So keep grindinkeep on mashinget yours



Chorus: gerald levert



You're nothin far from comin up (keep on)

Money's just a touch away (keep on)

So keep on grindin don't give it up (keep on)

There'll always be another day (keep on)



[mack 10]

And now I'm sittin at the padteary eyed and depressed

Starvin and sufferin from mental stress

Now a true center to the game of beginner

But hard to feel like a winner when you eat spreads for dinner

Hit the streets late night in the form of star mushin

On the 211 mission just to pay tuition

For my kids I got to grind and develop street saavy

Servin stress cause I just ain't got enough to cop cavi

But I can't stopI won't stoptil I got it made

Either build my clienteleget a job or learn a trade

Like hip-hopand make enough to live good forever

So I learned to write the rhymes and get my metaphors together

Then I joined a rap crewwith the homies on my street

Sellin underground tapes out the local swap meet

Gettin tighter on the micas I worked day to day

So now I lay down at nightand I hear voices say"mack"



Chorus



[mack 10]

Now I'm new to the sceneh as in hardn as in nympho

So like epmdcould you _please listen to my demo? _

I left the local crewfelt like I was the man

In popular demand and now ready for soundscan

So I searched for a deal with no luck I kept rappin

Felt like it would take a miracle to make it all happen

Marble said it was a test"mack don't do nuttin wrong!

Just have faith in God and keep your hustle goin strong

Stay hongrykeep writindon't quit you're too close

Remember good things come to those who want it most"

So I never left the housewithout my rap book

Thought I found a new crew but eventually got shook

First they said I was coolbut then started to doubt me

Put me on the backburner and just forgot all about me

Partna said I wasn't freshand sent me on my waybut you know what? 

As I was leavinI could hear voices say"mack"



Chorus



[mack 10]

Now the tables turnedbut I remember they used to clown me

The hard work paid offand luck finally found me

So call every publicationbillboard and the editor

And tell em mack's being signed by dude workin on _the predator_

I got the midas touchnow everything be the bomb

Hooked up with the donnow made a few mill-ion

I don't bang I write the good rhymesyou know about mines

Man I'm the tightest mcice cube ever signed

Now if ain't the radioit's a video shoot

Livin life in the limelightwith a bank full of loot

Now my crew is solidshook the haters and the leeches

Runnin full court at my house with our girls on the beaches

Plus the violence is ceasedno more bi-coastal beef

Cause now I get down with the north south and the east

I reminisce on hard timesseem like yesterdaybut now

Hoo bangin' is official and I remember they used to say"mack"



Chorus



[levert] money's just a touchjust a simple touch

Money's just a touch away..

Money's just a touchjust a simple touch

Money's just a touch away..



[mack 10] man I knew I was gonna make itbut they didn't believe me

Yaknowhati'msayin?  clowned me -- gon' be a rapperwhat? 

Hahahaha