TQ: Listen

Lend me your ear (listen)Won't you listen?Listen (listen)ListenListenGranddaddy was a hustlaOn the dirt roadHim and his brotherStayed sharper than a motherfuckerThat nigga stayed on the cornerStacy Adams never scuffed up (listen)So that explains bout my daddy and meI mean the apple don't fall too far from the treeI was thirteen, mad as hellThinking why can't we live up in Beverly Hills (listen)Wondered why all my homies in my hood were killedThinking why I got a 9 in my pocket for real? (listen)It's gotta be a better life than thisI mean kids shouldn't have to go through this shitI mean this is California, Land of the FreeBut every city in America it's plain to see (listen)Dawg, my people ain't getting they dueThat's the reason why we do what we gotta doListenThis is for the homies in my hoodAll the single mamas it's all good (listen)All y'all soldiers on the front lineDoing what you got to do to get by (listen)This is for the struggle it don't stopThis one's for Malcolm, Martin and Tupac (listen)No matter how hard they try can't stop usWe still gon get by mother fuckerListenI ain't in love with the situationBut I'ma get by and I'ma get mineAnd my mamas and my daddies and my whole lineUntil ShaunShaun sitting on a gold mine (listen)I'ma play my position get up in the middleSneak and attack this dog eat dog shit hereA whole lot of folks got to eat hereGrandmamma had 24 kids and that's real (listen)Cause I plan to build a boys club or somethingWhere fathers can take their sons on weekendsCause that's what they needI don't wanna see them in these streetsThese sharks out here and they eating (listen)I know I been gone for a minute but I'm backJust to put the West Coast back on trackI gangsta represent it till the day that I dieAnd I didn't tell a lieStill gon get byListenThis is for the homies in my hoodAll the single mamas it's all good (listen)All y'all soldiers on the front lineDoing what you got to do to get by (listen)This is for the struggle it don't stopThis one's for Malcolm, Martin and Tupac (listen)No matter how hard they try can't stop usWe still gon get by mother fuckerListenBaby girl I know you trying to do it by yourselfAnd ain't nobody there to help youSeem like nobody caresFor beautiful you (listen)For beautiful youBaby boy trying to get up out the game now (so much pressure)But damn it's so much pressure (so much pressure)It ain't a penthouse in the skyIt's keeping on the lightsWe just trying to get byListenThis is for the homies in my hoodAll the single mamas it's all good (listen)All y'all soldiers on the front lineDoing what you got to do to get by (listen)This is for the struggle it don't stopThis one's for Malcolm, Martin and Tupac (listen)No matter how hard they try can't stop usWe still gon get by mother fuckerListenListenThis is for the homies in my hoodAll the single mamas it's all good (listen)All y'all soldiers on the front lineDoing what you got to do to get by (listen)This is for the struggle it don't stopThis one's for Malcolm, Martin and Tupac (listen)No matter how hard they try can't stop usWe still gon get by mother fuckerListenListenThis is for the homies in my hoodAll the single mamas it's all good (listen)All y'all soldiers on the front lineDoing what you got to do to get by (listen)This is for the struggle it don't stopThis one's for Malcolm, Martin and Tupac (listen)No matter how hard they try can't stop usWe still gon get by mother fuckerListen