Some How Some Way

Please believe that, some how some way

We gotta make it up out the hood some day

Some how some way

We gotta make it up out this life, c'mon

Some how some way

We gotta make it up out the hood some day

Some way, we gotta make it up out this life

Whether we dribble out this mother****

Rap metaphors and riddle out this mother****

Work second floors, hospital out this mother****

Some how we gotta get up out this mother****

Some day the cops'll kill a mother****

I don't always wanna be this **** mother****, damn

Wish I could take us all on this magic carpet ride

Through the sky, I

Used to play the hall and fifth floor, me and my boys

We all poor getting ****, I

Seen the worst of the worst, I deserve every blessing

I received I'm from the dirt

I, planted my seed on infertile land

Myrtle Park, Marcy, Flushing and Nostrand, and

Still I grew, some how I knew that the sun'll shine through, and

Touch my soul, take hold of my hand

Look, man, a tree grows in Brooklyn

Some how some way

I gotta make it up out the hood some day

Some how some way

I gotta make it up out this life, c'mon

Some way, I gotta make it up out the hood someday

(To Lil' Nell, Sigel Street, I ain't forget you)

Twenty **** on the block trying to chase that buck

Nosey neighbors and haters keep they face on stuck

Cops roll up on the pavement break the dice games up

Moms smoke, kids can't chase the ice cream truck

Girls fighting over rope, the young boys hype things up

**** fighting over ****, the young boys light things up

All the petty ass wars **** the night scene up

Remember Lil' Eddie draw, man, how he light mean up

Then they wonder why we light ****

Back to back steamers trying to relax but I can't, I lean up

Ain't the L or the **** that steam up (That steam up)

It's my head and I'm stressed to the point I get a fever

Thinking 'bout the block and all the mothers and kids

That can't leave and how the **** gotta feed 'em

For the rest of their life

**** wings, fried vegetable rice (Gotta be kidding)

No breakfast Cap'n Crunch at night

Our kids eating lunch at night

In their beds all bunched in tight

No less than three or four (You know how it go)

Two by the foot two by the headboard

Man, I'm getting scared for 'em (Yeah, I know)

That's how I feel for 'em

And we gotta grip of shorties on the block

All they do is smoke **** and drink 40's, cop their lower ****

Enough to get the latest ROC, newest ****, and old Jordie's

Some how some way

We gon' make it up out this hood one day

Some how some way

We gon' make it up out this life, yeah

And some how some way

We gon' make it up out the hood one day

Some way, we gon' make it up out this life

Right here another little story 'bout this clique I claimed

Got another chapter based on how I get that game

Just hanging round my neighborhood, bang my street

Sit and watch the passerby's play my sweep

South Side, Sunny Side

Blocks I run, South Vegas, South Paul

**** all got ****

Over here we got this cold salad, get that there

We know tomorrow ain't promise so we get that now

**** sittin' in the livin' room guardin' the steps

Workin' inside a smoke house starving to death

Serving these **** **** **** in zippers

Agents snappin' you're picture

Neighbors plottin' to get ya

Situation is critic

I was out here to get it

Livin' it like a savage 'cause **** I gotta have it

Holdin' back on the mother**** for a minute, pumpin' hard, dawg

Erase enough to walk it down and **** it all, y'all

Lord bein' willin' and you're creek gonna rise

I'ma be a **** and these streets gon' rise

(Some how some way)

(Some how some way)

I'ma be a **** and these streets gon' rise

(Some how some way)

Some how some way

We gotta make it up out the hood some day

Some how some way

We gotta make it up out this life, c'mon

Some how some way

We gotta make it up out the hood some day

Some way, we gotta make it up out this life

We ride

Come on now

Yeah, yeah, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah