Verse 1 See, I'm that n***a eating apple jacks, Jay(Jay-z) talked bout That n***a that was coming for his spot without a doubt Went from....rags...they dogged em out, to...tags..and flossing out To say I'm not the sickest, is Ludacris!...Not word of Mouth Looking back when I was sleeping on my Auntie couch Who ever thought a decade later, I'd turn my life around? Nobody it's like,...everybody doubted me Bet when i'm shining everybody is just so proud of me I hear lying between ya teeth, I'm real as a Lion's teeth Maybe it's just the pride in me, I'm tryna let GOD in me Because I'm lost and no telling who is guiding me Maybe it's GPS, hell or Satan...I know stress Trying to do my best, this music is in my flesh Because my kids the only people I feel like I impress So I don't play boy, never been the type who heft (Hue Heffner) The game a marriage till you part, well I'll be choosing d**h Hook I'm tryna find possible change But you always wanna take from me People take from me, how can I find a way? I'm tryna find possible change But they'll never give a break to me (I'm black) Won't give a break to me, how can I find a way? Verse 2 Dear lord how can I find a way? An MC with a hammer too legit to pray And I been conscious of my wrongs and rights since yesterday But once you contradict your greatest plights what is their left to say? Philly calling me the Answer, I'm the second coming A n***a moving n***as underground, no Harriet Tubman Sickest it's no discussion, viral can't no one touch him The type you really love to hate, harder just to love him It's black jesus, real stories who believe us? My little homie Nickel screaming ayo Norm we need this! Another lil homie brought my whole world into to pieces
When he told me Open Book, gave him a fighting reason [damn], what a blessing...to be a teacher, who learned a lesson On how to get a message across without just texting To see you destined, but stressing, with life...what a price It's good you bringing possible change, but better changing lives Hook I'm tryna find possible change But you always wanna take from me People take from me, how can I find a way? I'm tryna find possible change But they'll never give a break to me (I'm black) Won't give a break to me, how can I find a way? Verse 3 You see my, pen or pencil's to the point, my words are proof Because I, fight to give my people rights(writes) Sojourner Truth No one can copy my style, you can't predict my moves Cause I'm the type to line up to shoot, then throw an alley oop A team player, but an individual oddity Cause where I'm from...the guns and shooters usually seen commonly The comedy, a motherf**er saying that he'll body me That's like the 10th wonder of the world, an I just gotta see A n***a with an attitude, I'm on that Dre sh** n***as out here undercover, y'all be on that gay sh** Rappers they shape shift, young thug's but they take dick From n***as mean mugging now to n***as with facelifts Don't say sh**, just peep the rhetoric AMERICA! land of the free that's irrelevant A government that will k**, for the hell of it Ain't sh** free and a dream is how they selling it Hook I'm tryna find possible change But you always wanna take from me People take from me, how can I find a way? I'm tryna find possible change But they'll never give a break to me (I'm black) Won't give a break to me, how can I find a way?