Times So Hard

Just a ghetto child trying to make it

Ugh, Lord knows I'm trying to get rich before you take me

We won't be neglected, we won't be denied

Tell me if we're wrong, if we hustle to survive

Now all jokes aside, I'm happy to be alive and still breathing

Since a baby teething, I knew I was gonna live, leaving reasons

Every celebrated season, we was broke

Hope was selling dope or robbing these other folks

I know every bad confrontation that we was facing

I'm a young black male

What would you do in this situation?

Labeled as an altercation, dealt with like a deck of cards

Singing, go all out if you gon' accept the Lord

We won't be neglected, we won't be denied

Tell me if we're wrong, if we hustle to survive

Time so hard, trying to make it

Time so hard, trying to make it

Last time my cousin had done

I sent two Gs to his wife and son

I'm saying, dear God, don't take me

Why these bitches and these niggas trying to break me?

I've seen dead presidents, my friends get bent

And mama in the ghetto trying to pay the rent

In high school, used to be kings and queens

Came home off of two, now they jackers and fiends

Survival play ghetto games

Lose your life these days for some Jordans or gold rings

We won't be neglected, we won't be denied

Tell me if we're wrong, if we hustle to survive

Time so hard, trying to make it

Time so hard, trying to make it

Can you visualize perfection from a section 8 crib?

And a yard full of ghetto kids

When I was dreaming and creaming

And wasn't making no money

Steady hustling how I had to make it

With niggas that die for me that's gon' forever be real

And nigga that's regardless feeling like I'm stealing my fate

I'm hollow headed and heartless, balancing life on a triple beam

And gambling with the odds of fate

And niggas got the nerve to try to play, hey

A young nigga in this game to survive

With a 4-5, looking at the sky

Getting so high, nigga

Above the law and under God

Right between the sky and the earth

Ain't touching dirt, but playing this dirty game for what it's worth

We won't be neglected, we won't be denied

Tell me if we're wrong, if we hustle to survive

Time so hard, trying to make it

Time so hard, trying to make it