I Try (feat. Mary J. Blige)

Yeah

New Talib Kweli

You know what it is

C'mon

I try, I try

I try, you know I try

I try, I try

I try (K. West, Kweli), you know I try

Get searched on the plane, Arabic first name

Disturbed by the fame just like Kurt Cobain

Breath of life, kiss of death, my lips pursed the same

You flirt 'til she came

Nothin' hurt like the pain and torture

Daughters of the dust lookin' for a vein

Something to take in vain like the Lord's name

Put your hands together, got 'em all sayin'

I try, I try

I try, you know I try

I try, I try

I try, you know I try (Yo)

It's all ghetto in gear higher than falsetto

More metal for beef that we don't let the law settle

I try to navigate the treacherous waters of

America's ghettos that set up to slaughter us

But there's more of us (Yeah)

Although we speak in different languages

We all pretty familiar with what anger is

Young and dangerous, trigger stranglers

Get up on some gangsta shit

Guns to bang ya wit'

And we put it on records to entertain ya wit'

Our growing pains get way deeper than Mike Seaver's

Our uniforms is white sneakers and white T-shirts

On top of wife beaters

We like to light reefers

The 'hood need us, but rappers just ain't the right leaders

I put a lot into it

This is my product and I gotta move it

Stop the industry, but you can't stop the music

An upside down kingdom where life is just not fair (Upside down kingdom)

So many sufferin' 'cause deep inside they're scared (So scared)

Fear pumped into their veins to keep them from their destiny

Where would they be if you and I don't care?

I try

I try, you know I try

I try, I try

I try, you know I try (Yo)

The things I'm seein' on the news is insane

A stock broker shoot his kid and throw himself in front the train

A mother leave her baby home for two weeks all by himself

Two years old, eatin' ketchup and mustard, cryin for help

Tryin' to bring your struggle to life

The label want a song about a bubbly life

I have trouble tryin' to write some shit to bang in the club through the night

When people suffer tonight

Lord knows I try

I try, I try

I try, you know I try

I try, I try

I try, you know I try

Life is a beautiful struggle

People search through the rubble for a suitable hustle

Some people usin' the noodle, some people usin' the muscle

Some people put it all together, make it fit like a puzzle

Come on, say it now

Life is a beautiful struggle

People search through the rubble for a suitable hustle

Some people usin' the noodle, some people usin' the muscle

Some people put it all together, yeah

I try

I try, you know I try

I try, Lord knows I try

Every day, I, I—

La-la-la, la-la, la-la, la-la-la, la-la

Upside down kingdom

Oh, they're so scared

Every day on the news we can't look around without

Something somewhere

I try, I try, you know I try

I try, I try, I try, you know I try

Lord knows, Lord knows we try, try

Yeah