Life So Real

'Cause every day life's like a battle

Some survive, others get killed

So every night we pray to God

Because we know that life's so real

When I wake up in the morning

Face my problems all alone

Gotta hold on (Gotta hold on, baby)

Gotta hold on

I'm poverty stricken, visualizin' the life I'm livin'

Thinkin' I can get paid in many ways with no restrictions

Livin' in this drug infested jurisdiction

I'm driven to a life of crime

Wishin' that this wasn't the life of mine

I find myself affiliated with niggas who been humiliated

For years tryin' to get rehabilitated

The government got us sufferin', strugglin'

Ain't gettin' no blessings

Sometimes I have to ask this question

Are you a nigga? Check your reflection in the mirror

It gettin' clearer, so your complexion is the fearer

Many men, that's why many sin 'cause they assume

Sit back and peep the evil that all these people consume

'Cause every day life's like a battle

Some survive, others get killed

So every night we pray to God

Because we know that life's so real

When I wake up in the morning

Face my problems all alone

Gotta hold on (Gotta hold on, baby)

Gotta hold on

I'm countin' my blessings

'Cause half of my childhood partners fell victim to Smith & Wessons

Got arrested or HIV infected

While brothers wanna blast folks

While politicians crack jokes at the black folks

We lack hope, it ain't no unity

'Cause blacks be killin' blacks in my community

It's mutiny, so I pack a gat and practice scrutiny

Just to eat, kids sell crack before the age of puberty

Then you send 'em off to the clink

And why you think they ship the dope over on the border?

So it can be a slaughter, kill our sons and daughters

Mama always wanted me to be a fancy lawyer

But the fast change trained my brain to be a baller

Nigga, I had to get it, get it

'Cause life's a hustle, hustle

Until the day we stay paid, we gots to struggle, struggle

So to my people on the corner, on the blocks, on the streets

Nothin' in this world comes for free

'Cause every day life's like a battle

Some survive, others get killed

So every night we pray to God

Because we know that life's so real

When I wake up in the morning

Face my problems all alone

Gotta hold on (Gotta hold on, baby)

Gotta hold on

Lord have mercy, it hurts me just to ask, but will I last?

Every day my expression, depression, headed the wrong direction

I'm stressin' through a test

These cigarettes just keep me when I'm down

Smokin' cancer 'cause my answers can't be found

'Round here every year we die younger and I wonder

What kind of siege is my city under?

They finally made it legal for white people to pack and put me away

Ready for combat every day 'cause Houston boostin' pistol play

I don't know if I'ma make it another day

My life's so real, I'm packin' steel

And feel that it's no other way

My mother say, "Boy, be strong

I know it hurts, it's gon' get worse

But to survive you gotta hold on"

'Cause every day life's like a battle

Some survive, others get killed

So every night we pray to God

Because we know that life's so real

When I wake up in the morning

Face my problems all alone

Gotta hold on (Gotta hold on, baby)

Gotta hold on

Lil' O, Born Unclick, you know what I'm sayin'?

We wanna live, our life too real

You know, to be worried about, you know

Flexin' about that Southside, Northside

Or where you from, you know what I'm sayin'?

We done hustled too hard, we about our paper

If you ain't about your paper

Me and you don't even need to be around each other

You know what I'm sayin'?

We got somethin' to live for, baby

We tryin' to bubble, we gon' live lavish

We gon' do this, you know what I'm sayin'?

We don't got time for all that, baby

Life too real for me to play games

What? Uh, what?

Born Un, Born Un

Lil' O, uh

Southside H-Town, Northside H-Town

It's goin' down