Road to Riches

I give it straight like the trajectory of a stray to a bystander
 Refuse to walk on all fours I rather die standing
 Trying to live to a standard that wasn't meant for mine
 I live my life to the fullest by keeping death in mind
 My people lost how much does peace and freedom cost
 How do I chase money without losing my soul to an evil source?
 My people get mocked and laughed at
 Shot and slapped at
 Worldstar is a joke gotta get passed that
 Bottles in hand spending dollars on brands
 Riding on dollar vans and only seen ya daughter through a sonogram
 No father since our forefathers
 Living with no knowledge of self but we the most stylish
 So childish, celebrating being broke and selling dope
 Hell is cold the devil welcomes you to sell ya soul
 Make ya record blow have u sounding silly yo
 Thinking you a goon but you a coon looking clownish in ya video
 Six lane highway that leads straight to a jail cell
 Police trained well while the drugs hitting ya brain cells
 Hoes in the Poconos
 Coke in our nose and broken hopes it's a slope
 We at the bottom on this totem pole
 My soul is sad, bottom of the social ladder
 We pros at acting like shit all good life is a prophylactic
 You don't build yourself by hating someone else
 We all want the same thing it's everybody for themselves
 I'm tired of fighting against my own common sense is gone
 Showing dominance with chrome life turned my heart to stone
 Halogen dome, born only to create starving for years
 Desperation was the only food we ate
 No one taught us to be great our role models were pimps
 Drug dealers, blood spillers, slug peelers
 So fuck feelings, it tough living when you failing
 With no road maps or direction in the ocean while you sailing
 On the road to riches and diamond rings
 This the sacrifice we make just to live
 On the road to riches and diamond rings
 This the sacrifice we make just to live
 On the road to riches and diamond rings
 This the sacrifice we make just to live
 On the road to riches and diamond rings
 This the sacrifice we make just to live
 Companies are making money off us
 Our moral compass is off
 Record companies is making offers like slaves in auctions
 They warned us in the past to take precaution
 I'm lost already kid I just wanna save my offspring
 So I talk it from the heart and share my life with you
 Much rather that then fight with you
 The right situation will have u doing dumb shit
 Got me thinking of my crew in D.C., I used to run with
 I had to motivate out and change my path
 The youth in the street play with guns like a game of laser tag
 Got a taste of that
 Bitterness lingered inside my mouth
 Crib to crib, body tired, surfing on another couch
 Back spasms from playing ball on cement
 Always worked for mine
 While some would get it all on the strength now they all convinced
 Trying to figure out the magic pill but
 How you gonna get the
 Mass to feel you when you lack the real?
 And I just spoke cataloguing all my soul in the bars
 From the days of analogue tapes when I rolled in the car
 Soul of a star not celebrities the ones in the sky
 We only show appreciation when one of us dies
 Numbers lie, so don't believe all you hear
 It's politics a lot of tricks
 Knowledge without any wisdom's nonsense
 Selfish and divided, self-entitled
 They call us entertainers never recognized myself in the title
 My brain itself is idle, that's when the devil enters
 How do I put myself first without becoming self centered?
 Feel like someone else everytime I hear
 Myself get mentioned like there's something
 Over me staring from the next dimention
 It's... puzzling sometimes I think about it
 Music's too precious and I know that I can't live without it
 Let it resonate like bass in section eight
 I just pray and leave the negative for yesterday
 On the road to riches and diamond rings
 This the sacrifice we make just to live
 On the road to riches and diamond rings
 This the sacrifice we make just to live
 On the road to riches and diamond rings
 This the sacrifice we make just to live
 On the road to riches and diamond rings
 This the sacrifice we make just to live