Plies - Trying 2 Beat Da Odds lyrics

[Intro] I'm finna give it to your a** gun barrel straight that's just how we rocking over here bruh Big Gates Record bruh gun barrel straight bih shout outs to everybody in the projects shout outs to everybody in the ghetto see understand this it's always a bright light at the end of that? [Chorus] They say one out of ten blacks we go die behind bars Say we was born in the ghetto then we ain't go make it far Ain't know avoid getting k**ed was go never be this hard To keep it real with you my n***a I'm just trying to beat the odds I'm just trying to beat the odds I'm just trying to beat the odds They say one out of ten blacks we go die behind bars Say we was born in the ghetto then we ain't go make it far To keep it real with you my n***a I'm just trying to beat the odds I'm just trying to beat the odds [Verse 1] n***as don't want to see me with sh** the white man don't neither That's why I ride everyday drank my liquor and smoke my reefer The mexicans the only mother f**ers they put beneath us I guess if you poor and white the world don't f** with you neither I get it I understand I'm black so ain't equal When you from the hood though that sh** run a lil deeper And one mother f**er in my hood that done never became a doctor And one body in my family who done never became a lawyer My daddy sold dope that sh** hard not to follow My momma did her best but she had her own problems My brother two times loose that's a whole bother saga Every n***a in my click at some point was a robber It's hard to think different cause sh** I'm from the projects Soon as you make a lil money got to spend it fight charges Ain't p**y I'ma hundred so I can't live with cautions I'm just trying to make show my wins out weigh my loses [Chorus] They say one out of ten blacks we go die behind bars Say we was born in the ghetto then we ain't go make it far Ain't know avoid getting k**ed was go never be this hard To keep it real with you my n***a I'm just trying to beat the odds I'm just trying to beat the odds I'm just trying to beat the odds They say one out of ten blacks we go die behind bars Say we was born in the ghetto then we ain't go make it far To keep it real with you my n***a I'm just trying to beat the odds I'm just trying to beat the odds [Verse 2] It's a thousand n***as that die for every one n***a that make it out My homie can't even read but do his thang with the pots His momma been dead his daddy smoking rocks He can't get a job some might say it's his own fault Sometime situations can change what you was taught My momma and daddy wasn't together I wonder where I'd be Cause most the sh** I know now I learned it from the streets Cause being a certain color it attracts the police And when you live in certain areas you can never get peace My momma biggest fear me dying in these streets But if ain't up in it how the f** I'm go eat And it's sad to say but nobody in my family got a degree A n***a playing ball and dropped out for the streets And got involved in hustling and got in too deep The sh** got over my head and the n***a couldn't even see The streets ain't the honest but I'ma be all I can be [Chorus] They say one out of ten blacks we go die behind bars Say we was born in the ghetto then we ain't go make it far Ain't know avoid getting k**ed was go never be this hard To keep it real with you my n***a I'm just trying to beat the odds I'm just trying to beat the odds I'm just trying to beat the odds They say one out of ten blacks we go die behind bars Say we was born in the ghetto then we ain't go make it far To keep it real with you my n***a I'm just trying to beat the odds I'm just trying to beat the odds [Verse 3] I just got one wish for drop me in a casket To wake up one morning and see my momma happy I wanna salute God for all the bad sh** that happened Cause everything that went wrong now I understand it He protect me from my enemies protect me when I was trapping He left when I was lil but I still forget my daddy The world done got rough everything done got drastic I'm just a black man that's the color of my family If I'm ever go make it the hustle I got to marry The road done been rough but I refuse to let it try me I done made some mistakes but sh** ain't embarra**ed I got to beat the odds cause one day I'ma parish [Chorus] They say one out of ten blacks we go die behind bars Say we was born in the ghetto then we ain't go make it far Ain't know avoid getting k**ed was go never be this hard To keep it real with you my n***a I'm just trying to beat the odds I'm just trying to beat the odds I'm just trying to beat the odds They say one out of ten blacks we go die behind bars Say we was born in the ghetto then we ain't go make it far To keep it real with you my n***a I'm just trying to beat the odds I'm just trying to beat the odds