Trials & Tribulations

I speak on behalf of the people

Hope, faith

We all got a story, this is me

Ok, please forgive me, Father, all the sinning I done did

All the dirt I had to do, all the trouble I've been in

Went through trials and tribulations every day to make some ends

I'm a walking testimony, still I stand yet again

You don't know shit that I been through, all this pain, ain't that the truth

So much tears that I done cried, feeling like I ain't got shit to lose

Why my granny passed away, why my daughter didn't stay

Wish they both was here today, oh Lord, in Jesus name

I done been through hell and back, momma dodging heart attacks

Ain't no AC in the house, just a broken thermostat

Bill collectors on my line, please don't fucking call me back

Got me stressing about this shit, ain't no way I could relax

I was only eighteen, ain't no money coming fast

Had no choice but turn to God, take some trouble of her back

Everything just going wrong, feel like nothing going right

I just seen my homie Dale and he die within the night

Boy, these streets ain't nothing nice, had to make way out the hood

Don't nobody give a damn, had to make sure we was good

Just like that, before you knew it, I had got my record deal

When you make it from the bottom just imagine how it feel

Lord knows them niggas hate, everybody had a doubt

Who this nigga think he is, that little black boy from the south

They was laughing at me then, ain't no laughing at me now

And for those who don't believe, ask 'em now who run the town

Ain't no way I'm giving up, ain't no way I'm giving in

I done lost it all before, can't go through this shit again, no

Lord forgive me for what I'm about to do

Forgive me for my sins, for the known, for the unknown, amen

Let me get it back to legit to quit, Porsche got two percented tint

Bitch, I made so many hits, look how quickly they forget

Go ahead and count me out, you can talk behind my back

Don't give a fuck about what you say, so you think my music whack

That ain't what my banker said, couple million wired in

Hope I see a hundred more that's before retirement

Motivation on you hoes, ain't no waiting on the dough

Heard they praying that I fail, tell them Ace will never fold

I'm a walking testimony and I mean just what I say

Looked my daughter in her eyes right before she passed away

Watched them doctors pull the plug, don't wanna live another day

This was all in God's fate, could not be no other way

How I did it, I kept my faith

They tried to break me but there ain't no way

I kept my focus, whipped up the potion

And when you make it out the struggle, you the chosen

I seen the light, oh glory, glory, trials and tribulations, my life is a story

And everything I did to make it made me who I am today

We the best, it's in my blood, ain't no father around to thank

I'm a lion in this field and my heart is made of steel

Catch me speeding to the top, hollering God take the wheel

Have mercy

And even though we all are not perfect, forgive me