LECRAE - Rise lyrics
rate meThangs just ain’t the same for gangstas
The whole world’s changed, everybody’s a stranger
There young dudes running round saying they bangers
Quit the low bangers, they quick to bang you
And I done seen too many teams chasing they dreams
Ending up blood streams contaminated and fiending
And now they leaning on words that he said or she said, we said
Look at them, …
See we ain’t never know Martin Luther the King
Most of us prolly couldn’t tell you much about a dream
We like Malcolm X cause Spike made a movie
And his arms strapped up with AK’s and Uzzies
So excuse me, tryna connect you, a whole generations of sprays by gangstas
Who probably never knew pops
We had 2Pac and no boom box, chilling in our tomb socks
And plus dre taught us how to roll a 64, and snoop taught us how to roll a sticky joe
So if they wanna reach us with jesus,
They gotta do better than some scream and preachers, yeah
Cause homie we don’t believe ya, you see grandmas…
So we skeptical, you see the ghetto believes there’s a heaven for a thug then we mess with you
It’s hard to rise, killer, listen to the melody, because…
Hey shout out to 9th wonder
No you ain’t gotta ask, we both on the same page like a paragraph
And our music ain’t the target of discussion
But it seems the radio is got a problem playing substance
Listen partner, they lying to us, they selling pies to us
They teach us how to be gangbangers and night shooters
I been where you been, seen what you seen
Group up with Old Dogg, looking mean on the screen
… was street dreaming, Biggy was still breathing
The cash ruled everything around me, creaming
Folks tryna make the good life good life
While they in the burbs wishing us a good life
And some rappers teach us how to …
But I still ain’t heard a song about being movie director
We in your hood man we’ve been where you’ve been
Been stabbed, been shot, been pinned in the pen
Difference is now …we pick up the pen… made us better men
I’m a college graduate, yes … role models
With daughter who don’t aspire to be pole models
…god made you any roles for you, so your rise.
