Some How Some Way

Please believe that somehow, someway

We gotta make it up out the hood someday

Somehow, someway

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

Somehow, someway

We gotta make it up out the hood someday

Someway we gotta make it up out this life

Whether we dribble out this motherfucker

Rap metaphors and riddle out this motherfucker

Work second floors, hospital out this motherfucker

Somehow we gotta get up out this motherfucker

Someday the cops will kill a muh'fucker

I don't always wanna be this drug dealin' muh'fucker, 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're all poor, gettin' high

I seen the worst, been to worst

I deserve every blessin' I received, I'm from the dirt

I planted my seed on unfertile land

Myrtle Park, Marcy, Flushing and Nostrand and

Still I grew, somehow I knew that the sun'll shine through

And touch my soul, take hold of my hand

Look, man, a tree grows in Brooklyn

Somehow, someway

I gotta make it up out the hood someday

Somehow, someway

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

Someway I gotta make it up out the hood someday

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

20 niggas on the block tryna chase that buck

Nosey neighbors and haters keep they face on stuck (uh-huh)

Cops roll up on the pavement, break the dice games up

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

Girls fightin' over rope, the young boys hype things up

Niggas fightin' over coke, the young boys light things up

All the petty-ass wars fuck the night scene up

'Member Lil' Eddie draw, man, how he light Mean up?

Then they wonder why we light green up

Back to back steam up, try to relax but I can't, I lean up

Ain't the L or the reefer that steam up (that steam up)

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

Thinkin' 'bout the block and all the mothers and the kids

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

For the rest of they life

Fuckin' wings, fried vegetable rice

Gotta be kidding, no breakfast, Cap'n Crunch at night

How the kids eatin' lunch at night?

And they 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 gettin' (uh) scared for them (yeah, I know)

That's how I feel for 'em

We gotta grip the shorties on the block

All they do is smoke weed and drink 40s

Cop they lil' their quarties

Enough to get the latest ROC, newest Glock, old Jordies

Somehow, someway

We gon' make it up out this hood one day

Somehow, someway

We gon' make it up out this life, yeah

And somehow, someway

We gon' make it up out the hood one day

Someway we gon' make it up out this life

Right here's another little story 'bout this click I claimed (click I claimed)

Another chapter based on how I get that game (uh)

Hangin' 'round my neighborhood, bang my street

Sit and watch the passerbys play my sweep

Southside, Sunnyside, the blocks I run (uh)

South Acres, South Park, niggas all got guns

Over here we got this code Charlie, get that there

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

Fuck sittin' in the livin' room, guardin' the steps

Workin' inside a smoke house, starvin' to death

Serving these niggas flippers, quarter-ounces and jippers

Agents snappin' your picture, neighbors plottin' to get you

Situations a critic, I was out here be gettin' it

Livin' it like a savage 'cause nigga, I gotta have it

They holding back on a motherfucker, I'm in it for the haul dawg

Erase enough and walk it down and fuck it all, y'all

The Lord be a-willin' and the creek don't rise

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

(Somehow, someway, somehow, someway)

I'ma be a nigga and this street gon' rise

(Somehow, someway)

Somehow, someway

We gotta make it up out the hood someday

Somehow, someway

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

Somehow, someway

We gotta make it up out the hood someday

Someway we gotta make it up out this life

We rise

C'mon now