Hope (Album Version|Explicit)

To every girl who ain't never had a daddy and every boy who ain't never have a mother

To that pretty woman lost in the world who seem to think another man won't love her

All the homies locked up in the pen who can never seem to dodge that trouble

Hold your head up high cause there's better days hard times I was praying for them better ways

I don't know a niggas struggle but I know pain

Cold world but a ni**a trying to maintain

Still praying for a little change

Bills due and I can't pay

Or when your money low when your rent late

And doc say granny gone after thirty days

You don't even know the half of my heartache

Too many I done lost is a heartbreak

And they wonder why this young ni**a goin' hard I done came too far from my boulevard

Couple war wounds few battle scars but I'm still here living gotta thank God

It's a cold world it don't love you

Funny what a little faith and a hope do

Lord

And I know my momma praying for me

And my granny praying for me

I'm hustling for my family and that's every day and night

And the day I witnessed my daughter born it was the greatest day of my life my life

Yeah take a look in my eyes look how far a ni**a came

You can search my soul you understand my pain

Ni**a trust nobody and that probably never change

With a little bit of hope you can reach your dreams

For anybody who done ever had a dream you are just like me

Still beleving in myself even when them niggas hated and they told me that it could not be

You's a muhf**kin' lie motivate a ni**a when you see him on the block

Tell me how it feel when you struggle with the bills and your momma take pills and you never seen your pop

That put a dent right into my childhood

Still praying that I want to live good

Selling d**e get you hoes and them nice cars

I'm just thinking if I really should

Small city young ni**a with a mindset

Ain't never trying to be another convict

See I can't lose and I won't quit

As long as God in my heart then I'm conscious

Remember when they said I wouldn't be sh*t

People doubted that I ever had a gift

Who the f**k are you to judge me ni**a I will never let them sink my ship

Through the trials and tribulations ni**a still I stand thank God in advance

And I know my momma praying for me

And my granny praying for me

I'm hustling for my family and that's every day and night

And the day I witnessed my daughter born it was the greatest day of my life my life

Yeah take a look in my eyes look how far a ni**a came

You can search my soul you understand my pain

Ni**a trust nobody and that probably never change

With a little bit of hope you can reach your dreams

Growing up I wanted to be like Jordan

Even though I couldn't really afford it

Who's to say I can't be an Obama

A Tiger Woods worth about a billion dollars

Everybody wanna sell a little coke

Cause it's cool to them niggas you know

Nobody wanna be another judge

Young niggas only looking for the plug hope

Watch your momma doing d**e

Daddy locked in the pen

And you on your own

Gotta keep your head up

When you're tired and fed up

Better days gon' come

Better days gon' come

And I know my momma praying for me

And my granny praying for me

I'm hustling for my family and that's every day and night

And the day I witnessed my daughter born it was the greatest day of my life my life

Yeah take a look in my eyes look how far a ni**a came

You can search my soul you understand my pain

Ni**a trust nobody and that probably never change

With a little bit of hope you can reach your dreams