One time

Reportin' live

Compton, California

Have you ever felt like, like you never get life

Like you never did right, sort of like a black sheep?

Back down, backin' out your dreams like some bad sleep

Chasin' for the wind but you never win the track meet

Oh, what a cold world for a broke ****, it's bitter

And life's a bitch, don't hit women, so I bit her

I struck enough pain, let her know I wasn't playin'

I was so sincere like Nas' first name in Belly

They tell me it's very difficult to see twenty-five

And if I survive, it's probably with a celly

My opportunities are low because my brown complexion floats

In the ghetto rather in some heels like Giuseppe's

They want me unemployed until I hit the streets

Fulfillin' voids of broke D-Boys sellin' weed

Fuckin' up my prestige till I live with the blues, BB King or the neighbors of Snoop

That's why I'm in the club like fuck it, though

They say it's only one life, life, life

And if you say I can't live comfortable

I'ma tell you that's a lie, lie, lie

So while I hold this bottle of Cîroc with a hand full of ass

Celebrate the very day that I get past

Through the barbed wire

We are, we are fighters

We are, we are true

Through the, through barbed wires

We will, will break through

So while I hold this bottle of Cîroc with a hand full of ass

Celebrate the very day that I get past

Through the barbed wire

Have you ever felt like, like you never get life

Like you never did right, sort of like a black sheep?

Tryna get away from the world's stereotype

Barbed wire got a barricade on your destiny

She desperately in need of some inspiration, see what the people sayin'

She gon' have a baby, then flee from her education

At the age of sixteen, credit card scam schemes

See a scar on her eye, boyfriend brutality

She'll never get by, no how, no way

Welfare recipient, property of the state

Housing, Section 8, corner store prostitute

The owner 'bout to prosecute, the **** tell her that she's cute

Hood rat trashy, six baby daddies

And this baby daddy is new to the family

Chillin' in pajammies, waitin' on the first, fast forward, spillin' drinks on her fur

That's why she in the club like fuck it, though

They say it's only one life, life, life

And if you say she can't live comfortable

She gon' tell you that's a lie, lie, lie

So while she up in VIP pourin' Merlot in the glass

Celebrate the very day that she get past

Through the barbed wire

We are, we are fighters

We are, we are true

Through the, through barbed wires

We will, will break through

So while she up in VIP pourin' Merlot in the glass

Celebrate the very day that she get past

Through the barbed wire

Have you ever felt like you finally got life?

You finally got right? No longer a black sheep

Livin' off ya dreams like Christina uh-Milian

In the front seat of a convertible, elopin' to get married

What a feeling of overcoming the odds

It's like we just hit the lottery, my God

There must be a God, 'cause golly

You done made it through the fight while squabblin' Ali

Now ya lifestyle's lookin' up, and you escaped the crooked cuffs

And you ain't had to kill a **** just to make a couple bucks

And she ain't have to go and fuck on everybody for a dollar

Makin' good decisions, got a independent business mind

And both of y'all are steady grindin', doin' it the legal way

Just tryna make a decent pay on every second of the day

But they won't give you the credit, disses out they mouth

You must have joined the Illuminati just to ball out

In the club like fuck it, though

They say it's only one life, life, life

And if you say they can't live comfortable

They gon' tell you that's a lie, lie, lie

So even if you overcame doubt and ya livin' ain't bad

Know it's a barbed wire that's always in your path

Through the barbed wire

Just laugh, then everybody say

'Cause I won't get caught again

And I'm here to stop the trends

You can catch me if you try

Disappear into the night

And I'm gone

So you made it past all the barbed wires?

There's one more left