He had the blood of a slave and the heart of a king/
but nobody ever told him to follow his dream/
they said his father wasn't shit so won't be anything/
so the ghetto dictated what his future would bring/
His moms tried to raise him the best that she could/
but it was just her against the rest of the hood/
You know they say it takes a village to raise a child/
but what happens to the child if the village is wild/
At sixteen a hustler took him up under his wings /
taught him how to be fly/ and get cream to the sky/
didn't tell him from this life you couldn't retire/
It was only two ways out was go to jail or die/
he started off small time selling nickels and dimes/
the money came fast but he just stuck to his grind/
cause getting out the hood was in the back of his mind/
but before he could two slugs hit the back of his spine/

What up young world I know times is hard/
But you gotta see through the merage
They say the only out is by that snow
the block is hot so we can deal with the cold/

What up young world I know times is hard/
But you gotta see through the merage
My people die from what they don't know/
They got us getting high to can deal with our lows/

She was a pearl cast into a world of swine/
body so fine it blocked out her beautiful mind/
cause her divine thought never got her attention/
she screamed out for help but nobody would listen/
so she used her head and got her extension/
pushed up her breast/ heals no less than 4 inches/
tight jeans tight skirt when she walk she switching/
all the latest fashion but something was missing
cause niggaz asked could they hit it, fore they asked her name/
Just called her barbie like she had a plastic frame/
and all the mascara do is mask the pain/
cause since her pops left she don't act the same/
she had goals but now her dreams deferred
she convince herself it better to be seen than heard/
to you that might seem absurd/
but in so many black home this scene occur/

What up young world I know times is hard/
But you gotta see through the merage
never a queen only a hoe/
The way only to get attention is to take off your clothes

What up young world I know times is hard/
But you gotta see through the merage
My people die from what they don't know/
So my sisters sell their bodies for the price of their souls/


He said nope it'll never happen to me
naw, dawg it'll never happen me
just so happen to be that new skirt he was chasing/
use to sneek around with this dude name jason/
Now Jason was in a situation with Jazmine/
who knew she could have men wraped around her finger/
She once work her charm on an R&B singer/
Who use to fuck around with this groupie named Tina/
Now Tina was freak who stayed in the street/
Had a different nigga every day of the week/
One being Pete who she screwed for months/
After the sex they always blaze blunt
Tina was confuse cause she heard Pete was gay/
But he was only half gay cause he went both ways/
Now Pete's partner Dave took test last week/
And it just came back positive for HIV/