[00:12.21](feat. Kira)[00:12.42][Cormega][00:17.49]I went to catchin' cases to buyin' cases of Don flyin' places[00:21.24]From metal bracelets, to diamond bracelets[00:23.55]From ghetto pavements, to hotter ways with[00:25.68]My own private acre, I'm movin' up like the Jeffersons[00:29.22]Drivin' spaceships, like the Jetsons, my mic[00:31.86]Conseption is deep[00:33.15]Like my conseption, my life was tested, numerous times[00:36.36]Like Judas, the father's rudest child[00:38.49]Only a winner could lose with a smile, refusin' to bow[00:41.49]Even the critics of Cormega, enthusiast now[00:44.46]As well the SL-5, watch how the roof come down[00:47.34]When Sammy come through, you know how the crew get down[00:51.33]We no longer have to move bricks now[00:53.76]Rainy days are brighter when the jewels are out[00:56.49]And we only dealin' with people, showin' true love now[00:59.55]Dedicate to every one who grew up hard[01:03.09]Sky's the limit, reach for the stars[01:05.58][Chorus: Kira][01:05.94]I had to let it go, I had to let it start a change[01:11.70]It ain't, the same no more, no more, no it ain't[01:17.61]Harder times has gone away, say goodbye to heartaches[01:25.11]Livin' in the ghetto... livin' in the ghetto[01:29.07][Cormega][01:29.49]I got a daughter to raise, I thought that the game was honorable[01:32.79]Til Porter was slain, when Magic and Jordan were playin'[01:35.43]Ballers were famous, they aura made us, hug corners daily[01:39.27]Similar to the fiends we serve daily[01:41.64]No more sleepin', my eyes, son, I see the world clearly[01:44.43]Whether the projects depths, or the seed of a six series[01:47.55]As I breeze through the city, rockin' Annie Vezel and Pennies[01:50.49]I realize people who feel me, are the reason, I mean it sincerely[01:54.42]I can never lose the love of the streets, that endeared me[01:57.21]Throughout my adoloscent years, slingin' packs daily[02:00.15]Reminiscin' people who cash yearly[02:02.37]While starin' at pictures, wishin' they was here with me[02:05.31]Like my mans who kept it real with me[02:07.62]We been through hard times, now we sittin' in hard rides[02:10.35]We ain't hard to find, we either[02:12.33]At the crab, going hard in Live[02:14.67]Or on the block, chillin' right outside[02:30.60][Chorus][02:32.43][Cormega][02:41.40]Sometimes I sit inside my residence, and I just think[02:44.46]Of my life, and the situations I might face[02:47.64]Ain't too many real niggaz, is my kind extinct[02:50.70]I'm alive, yet a part of me, died with Spank[02:53.46]I'm still in the game, relentless when my pen hits[02:56.07]The paper with a vengeance, the essence of the ghetto[02:59.13]I live it, the realness, straight out the street[03:01.44]Alotta schemes were laid down, children were leavin' playgrounds[03:04.35]Cuz dealer squeeze a tre' pound, uh[03:06.33]No m.c. could get in my area[03:08.94]Lyrically, few will ever meet the criteria[03:11.82]I'm clearly a superior breed, like a terriar[03:15.27]Right here in the streets, where rappers scared to come[03:17.79][Chorus]