Love My Life

Ayo, I never claimed to be hard, tough, no homo, gangsta none of the above
 Just a kid from 145th and Lennox Ave
 Harlem, USA trying to make his way in the world ya heard?
 Ya know through the trial of tribulations that life brings
 I lost some friends, incarcerated, some are gone forever
 Ya know you cant expect everything from everybody
 So get up get out and get somethin, thats what I did
 Before I had the hammer cocked
 A Santana rock
 Little Gerv, Grandpa Jerry, Grandma Doc (thats my fam)
 Uncle Carl, Uncle Ted, Uncle Steve, Uncle Bill,
 Cousin Steve, Cousin Bill up on the hill now
 My Aunt Normy, I dont speak to my Aunt Deita
 Or my Cousin Bashiba, love my Mother Fredricka
 Neighbour Freida, daughter Raven and Nika
 Down another doorbell was that nigga Warden Nell
 He gave birth to the best emcee you never heard
 Lever after lever and was clever with whatever word
 Derek Armstead, Bloodshed from C.O.C
 He did damage, road managed my G.O.D
 Aka Duke Da God, he was stupid hard
 16, the bitch dream had stupid cars
 Cut the ' 68, hooptie ' 75
 Still drives some bullshit, I dont know why
 I loved the nigga though, for him put cris in the air
 First one that diss him in here, I swear I'll risk my career
 Thats a fact they aint talking no rap shit
 I'm talking that mack clip, niggas will backflip, act sick
 My dude study the sabbath
 No beef, veggie nigga, maybe some catfish
 He could have my house, he could keep my mauries
 He could drive my cars, this a eastside story
 (Thats why my dudes love me I let them do them.
 You either gonna be rich or famous fuckin wit me, probably both.
 If you happen to brush shoulders wit me by accident,
 play lotto, nine out of ten times you gonna win nigga.)
 To play the game, sure to win??
 I sacrificed, I rolled the dice
 I love the hood, I love my life
 See a boss I prepared to be
 When I walk away from a confrontation I aint scared of you I'm scared of me
 I got a gun, you dont so it flares you'll see
 After that a 5, 000 volt chair for me
 So I move carefully, niggas dont care for me
 Who care I dont, you share I wont
 Calm down (uhuh) breathe again
 I dont do extortion unless I wanna recieve an end
 Talk to my money, first time I heard her speak (what she say)
 Thats word to me, told me I deserve to eat (what happened)
 Moved to a killa ave, right from a murder street (what you did)
 Rocked adida forms even though they hurt my feet (thats fucked up)
 I dont look in the sky, never mind stars
 You also find stars, right behind bars
 Snazz, Black, Do' on house arrest
 Zeke, shiek, wont even throw out the rest
 They wanted my ass right alongside zeke
 Turn myself in, nope play hide and go seek
 I'm gone, put the clip in the chrome
 Yeah i'm just like a fly, see the shit that i'm on
 And, hour after hour I would chill at the afterhours
 Where they flash the power, no bath or shower
 In that same spot, realize math is power
 So I pointed the mansion, that is ours