[Verse 1 - Boldy James]
It's been a long hard struggle
And an even longer grind
Since I learnt how to hustle
I've been eating off the rind
In the concrete jungle
Where they feed you to the lions
Early n***a getting money
Size [?]
On the South [?] service drive
North and thirty-ninth
Percy the Prince of Persia
Cheese, he the don
And [?] keep the nine
I'm pretty sure once before
You dun met my neighbours
Now it's time to meet the [?]
In these streets mainline, it's mafia what else
It make [?] that's a honor of [?]
Hundred thousand doller bill
n***a this sh** is real
Tryna bond out of jail on 10 per cent of a mil'
When you looking at an L getting blamed
For everything under the sun
Except the n***as that you k**ed
Sitting in my cell thinking bout the hit
Now everytime I dream about the sh** i get the chills
Waking up in hot sweats gripping steel
Living in the projects missing meals
Eating a gas station combo that's a cigarill'
Pack of squares, some [?] and a ginger ale
But now I'm tipping scales
[?] coming in the mail
And at the end of the day, I'm tryna pin a tail
I got that white girl and I don't kiss and tell
[Chorus - Sample]
I had a hard time in life, trying to come up
I had a hard time in life, trying to come up
I had a hard time in life, trying to come up
I had a hard time in life, trying to come up
[Verse 2 - Roc Marciano]
Blunt and the coke
The cribs cold the furnace is broke
Young n***as turning coat but I'm awoke
See C-Notes the dream was to flea to Rio
With something mean speak Creole
My ambition, Christian Dior, Valentino
Ski on a kilo, my tee is fitted like a guido
Still get that VO on the D-low
Steamboats, linen blowing
Skin be glowing n***as chest showing
I'm not a limp pop in the clip
Hollows with the copper tip
Street politics, them n***as old
The fifth will show, my sh** is like a fishing pole
Play the grave shift
Blaze spliffs with the suede kicks
My asian b**h in the whip
Wait patient while I'm throwing dice
Over Nikes, frozen ice
Cold bites, your partners is fed to the mice
Wet the carpet, your carca** is super market
Bull dog come out the shooters harness
Your arm spit? Nah never left your armpit
Surrounded by fiends this sh** is like a mosh pit
They raided the crib, the guage is near the bed
While I jump out the window and break a leg
I'm too cold to break a sweat, wait next
The weight is wet, the weeds laced with wet
The D's chase, squeeze eights, escape d**h
Take steps, playing with cakes is like russian roulette
The touch or bump ways to connect
Your men could take it to the neck, take a bet
Spray the tec with no bayonet
Evade the net, pay the debt
Never slept n***a
[Chorus - Sample]
I had a hard time in life, trying to come up
I had a hard time in life, trying to come up
I had a hard time in life, trying to come up
I had a hard time in life, trying to come up