I Try (feat. Killer Mike)

(What is blackice?)

Yeah, yeah, look

In the back of my mind, feel like cryin', but, bitch, I'm a soldier, that's just somethin' I cannot do

I been totin' that iron, been slangin' it too, bitch, I know that you lyin', say it's just me and you

And y'all left me outside to dry, but now I'm on fire and your neck on the bottom of my shoe

They wanna kill a **** just 'cause I'm speakin' the truth

Bitch, I'm just a real ****, I don't know what else to do

Why lie?

When I'm speakin' on my life

They still plottin' on my ice

Feel like I never get mine right

Even though I try, I try, I try

Even though I try, I try, I try

Look, I had a dream that one day I'ma become what I wanna be

I gotta keep it a hundred, it's been some time when I was fiendin' for company

Anybody, I just needed someone with me

Paranoid, know I need me a gun with me

You my brother if you go on a hunt with me

Scratch that, man, them **** be wannabes

They'll go with you to show they'll slide

Can tell if you real if I look in your eyes

Got no gun in the club, throw a hook when I die

Boy, you need to pick up a book, learn a lot

I was crashin' back then, I'm just glad I'm alive

I could've been dead, I'm just glad I survived

I'll spit in your face 'fore you fuck up my vibe

And I'm in the A, swear to God I'm so high

You can lose your life 'fore anybody know why

Yeah, you know

So ****, goddamn, hit the cut

They get to sprayin'

I got my stick, shit, my first instinct get to bustin'

Know what I'm sayin'? **** like, "You a rapper, you ain't 'posed to be doin' that"

What the fuck you want me to do? Die?

In the back of my mind, feel like cryin', but, bitch, I'm a soldier, that's just somethin' I cannot do

I been totin' that iron, been slangin' it too, bitch, I know that you lyin', say it's just me and you

And y'all left me outside to dry, but now I'm on fire and your neck on the bottom of my shoe

They wanna kill a **** just 'cause I'm speakin' the truth

Bitch, I'm just a real ****, I don't know what else to do

Why lie?

When I'm speakin' on my life

They still plottin' on my ice

Feel like I never get mine right

Even though I try, I try, I try

Even though I try, I try, I try

Ayy, we kill each other like ritual

This shit is pitiful, plus it's political

Gave us the minimal, keepin' us miserable

Additional, ignore us like we invisible

Only so long before crime irresistible

I swear to God the condition is clinical

Conditions we live in should not be permissible

Our behavior get more unpredictable

My, my

Eyes were black like Malibu, let you get wrong with me, you die, die

Your mama gon' scream and fall to her knees and look to the skies, say, "Why? Why?"

This is the sickedest, wickedest system that's ever been set up

How could you whip us and chain us and make sure we brainless, and then tell us we need to catch up?

I'm tryna get it, I mean it, let's get it, let's get it by any and every means

I'm talkin' robbin' and lootin' or gettin' my schoolin' or scammin' or even a scheme

The woke and the broke sound like a joke, tellin' my people that we should not scheme

Pussy, the line in my rhymes talkin' 'bout crime describe the American Dream

In the back of my mind, feel like cryin', but, bitch, I'm a soldier, that's just somethin' I cannot do

I been totin' that iron, been slangin' it too, bitch, I know that you lyin', say it's just me and you

And y'all left me outside to dry, but now I'm on fire and your neck on the bottom of my shoe

They wanna kill a **** just 'cause I'm speakin' the truth

Bitch, I'm just a real ****, I don't know what else to do

Why lie?

When I'm speakin' on my life

They still plottin' on my ice

Feel like I never get mine right

Even though I try, I try, I try

Even though I try, I try, I try

Oh, na-na, na-na, na-na

(What is blackice?)

Oh, na-na, na-na, na-na

Even though I try, I try, I try (Oh, na-na, na-na, na-na)

Even though I try, I try, I try (Oh, na-na, na-na, na-na)