All I Got (feat. Demarie King)

Seem like they don't want me to win

So many trials and tribulations

They promise that these people got me working on my patience

So many let downs, mishaps, uncontrollable circumstance

You were right the first time and you ain't gon' need no second chance

So nights I feel to my knees and prayed to the sky

Still looking in the clouds days later like, God, why you ain't reply?

And I ain't shy and I ain't bashful

It's hard to continue praying when you ain't getting what you asked for

And it's hard being positive when you stuck on your last, bro

You're positive and you're negative

My frame begin to clash slow

And you ain't got no cash though

Make you wanna smash, bro

Grab some burgers and put your mask on

Little homie 15 he like, what am I go to class for?

His mama dope fiend, his probation officer an asshole

What you think he cut class for?

Hit the dice game, get his last show

Got hit for his last dough, that's what he hella mad for

Got his mind on fast money 'cause he's tired of living past, bro

This is what it's like on my block

Most float in the gang but I'm not

I'm gon' give it all that I got

I made a promise to my mama

I won't quit on my guys

See, you ain't grew up in the projects

Where all your neighbors on cray

Your apartment building full of alcoholics and dope fiends

And stressed out teens

Frustrated by being poor, traumatized by ghetto war

Sipping beer by the age of 4

Misguided by older people in they second childhood

Still promoting the ignorance that go on in the hood

Rather give you a bundle than give you a book

See it coming but won't tell you to look

The same ones that sold them drugs to her

Instead of jumping over some cars so high

He could've jumped inside a scholarship

Came back and fed everyone on the block

It's sad nowadays these youngsters they be laughing at knocks

But I can't knock 'em 'cause I used to laugh at my pops

When he was nodding off high

And plus my mama smoke rocks so I know the feeling

I seen it all in my apartment building

Prayed for us ghetto children immune to this violence and killing

See, I don't do it for the headlines, I do it for the healing

This is what it's like on my block

Most float in the gang but I'm not

I'm gon' give it all that I got

I made a promise to my mama

I won't quit on my guys

I guess she's still blind

To a broken man's dream

Pay no mind to a life of crime

What be going on in a mind of teens

Still living by WuTang's slogan, favor were cream

But when you broke, how the hell cash gon' rule everything?

'Cause all around me is enemies lurking, they tryna down me

And in this town, see, **** get higher than Bobby Brown be

They used to clown me, them same critics nowadays wanna be around me

Cause the tsunamis in the Bay water but I ain't gon' let it drown me

I keep my head up, focus on ways to keep my bread up

The hate you gave us, little got Memphis out here fed up

Searching for a promise in the world where people don't keep they word

Probably think I'm crazy the way I'm at rolling hills talking to the dirt

And lies hurt, when your mama gone and your daddy gone and your granny go

Your brother gone and your sister gone, and you out here on your own

God bless the child that could master peace

'Cause when you master peace you create a masterpiece

This is what it's like on my block

Most float in the gang but I'm not

I'm gon' give it all that I got

I made a promise to my mama

I won't quit on my guys