The Game Don't Wait (feat. John Givez)

I feel the wind on my face
 Feel the sun on my eyes
 Makes me squint for a second as if I'm mad I'm alive
 Yeah I was selling them dubs
 And I was selling them dimes
 But I did that by instinct call it my animal side
 You know I got to survive
 You know them other dudes thrive
 And when I'm hugging the block
 You know we bound to collide
 This is cold out here
 Southern California cold out here
 Though we had gold out here
 So they rush for the best secret unkept
 The state known for having the most dreams unmet
 Yet there is no other place I'd be living life
 Hustling to survive, yeah I know I ain't living right
 Another dollar for another day
 Boy you better get right, get right
 Hear them holla from a mile away
 Cause the game don't wait for no one
 No one
 Game don't wait for no one
 Boy you better get right
 Getcha, getcha game tight
 Game flight
 How am I supposed to survive
 On minimum wage, nine to five
 These dead-end jobs can't keep me alive
 And the homies keep asking me what it's hittin for
 All I see around me are churches and liquor stores
 The cost of living is outlandish
 So most of my payday loans are outstanding
 On a corner nothing to do, tell the truth I hate it
 Never been jumped in, but I'm more than affiliated
 Growing up here goes down from where you're from to where you at
 At the wrong place at the wrong time and they bound to lay you flat
 Tattoo tear drops symbolizing who's gone
 And I don't need you to tell me what I'm doing is wrong
 You don't think that I know that?
 Look I've been saving for a minute to go straight and eventually I'll own that
 Halfway legit, the other side ain't feeling right
 Hustling to survive, yeah I know I ain't living right
 I just need a little sunrise to shine on my mind
 And maybe I might make it outta here
 The homie went to college on a scholarship
 They told me I should take my resume and polish it
 Or maybe go to beauty school and own a barber shop
 How cool would it be if I got to call the shots
 But I got this music thing and I feel like I got hold of that
 But I've came too far to all a sudden be going back
 No one was going to bring him success
 No one was going to hand him anything
 Many would be there to tell him he couldn't make it
 There would be obstacles in his path
 Some would even attempt to knock him down
 But he wasn't waiting for anyone to offer a hand to pick him up
 See he knew he would have to do it himself
 He knew he would have to do for himself
 He was focused on his path
 But when ambition meets desperation
 Lines get crossed
 Focused on his rise
 He was determined to get it by any means
 Let's talk about ambition
 Let's talk about that cake walk
 Oh yeah we make it happen
 We don't care about what they talk
 Cause we play on
 Hustling raps must've become my day job
 Every time I just enter a city they asking me why don't you stay long
 Anxious to get back to the Cali weather, in
 The state where weed is the number one medicine
 You got your green cards so you think you're better than
 Those of us who are documented in the field, let us in
 They want a piece of the American pie too
 And they know we got enough of it to supply you
 Us, the one percent they think just fly through
 Eat the majority of our meals from a drive through
 Incapable of seeing our own luxury
 Or a kings dream and what it is, he might have us to be
 Headed for a global awareness that's instead of trying to get ahead
 Easier to focus I saw myself instead
 When the beast comes
 Ever been so hungry
 You forgot to eat
 Ever ran your mouth so much you forgot how to speak
 Ever exaggerate to the point you forgot what the truth was
 Ever start out trying to help
 Only to become a nuisance
 They never knew us
 But they finna know us now
 As we eat up all their free food like it's an open house
 Appetizers become dinners only eat with open mouths
 Disrespectfully I'm chewing, eating all your colder styles
 Man, f- your couch
 And this plight for trying to win and get disciplined I have no choice but to focus now
 That is like my coaching style when I was in the desert
 They kept asking us for oceans but I'm overseas like Okinawa
 Rock bottom and
 Desperation
 Been flat broke but that's not my destination
 Any means necessary no more time wasting
 God I see coming and I'm ready for these changes
 We fail so many times we might as well give up
 My brothers often cry I think they had enough
 Sometimes we victims to them cups
 Cause our upbringing was tough
 We're getting closer to the edge and our frustration ain't abrupt pardon my temper
 Hurry like it's [?] connected to my race and faster than Usain Bolt on this track breaking records
 That time I'm packing my effort
 Like I'm really gon' run
 No one sat down to be better, stand up and work against time
 Time ticking I'm a ticking bomb, tick
 Well I help my people [?]
 Or will I [?] it more
 Soon I'll be going to have these lavish aspirations on my dreams to be big before my expiration
 Want my boys out of bids
 We take so much for granted
 Our lives ain't perfect
 But at least we managed to
 See the riches in spirit not on the flesh is damged
 I made it this far I ain't stopping, all my praise to God
 My hunger to be the best is what keeps me alive
 Success was starting to find him
 But even still he was beginning to feel lost
 All he knew was that he wanted something different
 He wanted relief
 He was never one to send hollow prayers to fall on deaf ears or fill himself with shallow hope
 But through friendships and the divine encounter
 He began to realise that the physical hardships of chasing your dreams
 Can often bring spiritual awakenings
 And in this case
 He couldn't keep living for the world that kept on forsaking him
 But often times
 The gap between who we are
 And who we want to be
 Can be
 Too much to balance