Believe

Uh, I remember bein' broke Talkin' 'bout we gon' get this money, gon' get this money Wiffle ball playin', to the mall slanging CD's of niggas tryna scrape a hundred Now it's a hundred when I get a steak Need a reservation just to get a plate With a hoodie, Louis bucket, and slides Motherfuck a button-up and a tie Black power and I'm slanging it wild Foreign dripping with a bitch on the side Beastmode, Marshawn with it Had to step past my haters just to get by I just pushed down Whippin' on the corner with a bag in the trunk For all my niggas never having enough Like what the fuck is ever having enough? We gon' keep keep baggin' it up We gon' keep keep cashin' it up I need this here for the inner city I need Wakanda in Mississippi I need to plot it and plan it A way we could manage to stay out the penitentiary I need a chopper for all of my partners Just in case the government try to get me This is bigger than the color green This is Denzel in the last scene Of a Spike Lee joint, Malcolm X story Necessary by any means This is a mil' on the wheel I am a four, never pour, never sip I got a dream, something like ML the King Talkin' 'bout every day of the week I'm tryin' so hard to believe (to believe) I'm tryin' so hard to believe Kids dyin' but we actin' like it's a breeze Struggling, shakin' disease We can't stay down on our knees That's what we good at though (good at though) Believing That's what we good at though (good at though) Believing Believing Believing That what I been saying ain't over they heads (believe) People don't only give flowers to dead All the police ain't been tryin' to kill us (bBelieve) All the medicine is bound to heal us It was really help they tried to give us (believe) All this drankin' ain't gon' fail my liver I'ma live to be a father figure (believe) Better than my father ever figured All these rappers really rappin' 'bout it Really saving people, really giving back (believe) All the pastors in the churches talking to the Lord Tell Him where we at (believe) And the water ain't pure and ain't good for the drinking Don't fix me a plate if you know I can't eat it Seeing people dead on TV and social networks just fuck with my thinking Scared I'll die young with no children to hold (believe) No one to leave what I owe Scared I'll grow old, I might lose who I knew (believe) I might forget who I know I'm a product of believe, believe (believe) I'm living what I was told What happened to Nip, I just can't believe (believe) It takes a believer to know (it takes a believer to know, it takes a believer to know...)