Swallow My Pride

N-d-t-p (yeah), nigga

Get your money nigga, get your money nigga

I'm just saying though, I'm still on the block man

I'm trying to get mine, but I'ma tell y'all like a nigga told me man

Get your money till you d-I-e man

See I can't back my ways, partna not even if I tried

Never swallow my pride, or keep my feelings inside

There ain't nothing to hide, you can see it in my eyes

A couple minor setbacks, still at least I tried

For every nigga that died, for every mama that cried

To every kid that heard a shot, scared to come outside

Pay attention y'all, I'ma tell you like a nigga told me

No matter what, get paper till you d-I-e nigga

With all the shit that I been through, dead ends where I been to

It's a couple of issues, I'd rather not get into

Never thought I'd fill my vault, with just a paper and pencil

You ain't gotta pay me back, for that money I sent ya

Took mine, while the getting was good

Feel like a prison, just to live in the hood

If ya could ya would, find a way out never wear your days out

And really I'm just trying to get paid, till I fade out

Nine when I ride, high until I die

Don't ask why, I just won't mind

Rain sunshine, I'm on my grind

Don't ask why, I'd never swallow my pride

Yeah listen you'll never do me

And it's a million niggaz in the street like me

My eyes wired shut, you don't see what I see

I've been hunting for weeks, ain't no time to sleep

Still a nigga gotta eat, try to feel me

Ask no questions, get told no lies

That's why I blow the arm, when I'm rolling by

Why do I get so high, cause I'm solo in the ride

I trust no one, to ride on the other side

You gotta walk in my shoes, to see it like I see it

If ain't no money being made, I ain't staying I'm leaving

Not down, with betraying the fam' believe it

I'm just relieving my mind, it's time for me to speak it

It ain't a click of niggaz, like the team I run with

Bitches get y'all set up, cause y'all doing dumb shit

Click-boom there go the tool, speaking to you fools

He was innocent, but his man made too many moves

Oh well, his chick like taking pictures nude

Running through the crew, I ain't faking what you do

I play photographer, and let her do what she do

Run through the homies let her screw, she screwed

Collect the thoughts, from the back of my mind and then

Reel 'em out, in the raps that I rhyme and then

Resco', go package 'em down

Hit the block grind 'em hard, like a package of dimes yeah

I'm on my mash fa sho, I can't stall black

You can call me what you want, cause I be all that

Tickle this fo' nickel, and make you fall back

You came all tough but nigga, had to crawl back

I see facts, had the figga fa sho'

Peep game peep lames, that these niggaz is hoes

Yeah it take work, just to get in the do'

But why you faking and you shaking, I'll be getting this do' ay

Some niggaz, ain't acting the same mayn

Grit bout to start, slapping you lames mayn

Our money nigga, that ain't a game mayn

You try to get us, we gon splatter your brains mayn

And I'm harder, than any you artists

I'ma be the nigga in the winter, that's getting

It regardless you retarded

And the meaning, we bringing it so important

Of you thinking of intervening, believe that you a target yeah

And I'm making it better, for niggaz that's starving

Trying to get they cheese up, we can't leave 'em back they need us

Please brah, you ain't walked on my streets

So how the fuck, you gon have the nuts to try me yeah

See I am what I am, and it is what it is

I've seen some shife shit, in the city I live

Lil' kids man they out there bad, they out on the ave

With a mouth full of butter, chasing mountains of cash

And on the other half, some cats is taking another path

Struggling wondering, how long will the trouble last

I'm trying to bubble past, what everyone expected fo' me

Accept it homie, this the road God selected fo' me

So don't question my motives, know that I'm focused

Niggaz is hating I'm hear em, and I know that they bogus

But, I ain't gon let my boat pass me by

So when I do what I do, don't ask my why