Some people hustle in the street for a diamond necklace
I do it so that I can eat dinner lunch and breakfast
Your priorities might be off, you better switch your check list
Instead of taking care of your family, you would rather have a Lexus
Im tired of looking at my people starving
We make deals with the devil, and call that bargaining
To all my people thats lock down, please hold your head up
I know you think that the pain wont stop, I know that your fed up
If anybodys got love for you, its me
I remember sleeping on my bunk just dreaming of the streets
Thats the place where my life turned upside down
I kept asking God for freedom, he said not right now
I learned that the name of the game is paitence, and when you learn it, its golden
Because being too anxious will get you blown to the wind like weed thats smoking
So if you have a couple of minutes, you can read something
The world says that we as a people we can't be nothing, because we don't read nothing
The fact of the matter is we're not leading we're following
We're choking ourselves out because we don't want to take our pride and swallow it
So if the truth hurts, well let me inflict the pain
Ive been living by the same rules since I started playing this game
They say 'keep it gangsta", I say just "keep it real"
Because keeping it fake might just get you killed
-Road Runna
Daryl Johnson
(Live life the first time, because there is only the first time)