I'ma Make It

I'ma make it I'ma I'ma make it/ Back on the pavement sweating for the payment I'ma make it I'ma I'ma make it/ I won't be held down never held down I'ma make it I'ma I'ma make it/ Mr. Clean fresh one level out the basement I'ma make it I'ma I'ma make it/ I won't be held down never held down Back in the day/ when people were hitting lines I was writing mine/ reading books, to expand my mind From scholastic/ R.L. Stine Christopher Pike KRS said knowledge is power/ but that was never in my sight Mind freelance/ like Creedance Clear Water Revival Grades always stagnant/ and never ever spiraled down Cause they was always/ in the fifty percentile Half assed through class/ in gym never ran that mile Though the years on trial/ kicked out of high school Always told you'd be nothing/ but I never thought it cruel Thought it cool change be due/ so I changed my attitude Learned to rhyme later in life/ to throw it back at you I'ma make it I'ma I'ma make it/ Back on the pavement sweating for the payment I'ma make it I'ma I'ma make it/ I won't be held down never held down I'ma make it I'ma I'ma make it/ Mr. Clean fresh one level out the basement I'ma make it I'ma I'ma make it/ I won't be held down never held down Drowned from sound/ with no crowd for me loud Kicked out of the house/ for times not proud Tricked for doing things/ now on a cops profile But got where I am/ cause I finally ran that mile Trust and honesty/ loyal to my dawgs Many night I spent/ just creeping through the fog Many night I'd wish/ I had kept real to my mom's And brother through it all/ but the fall kept me real In the days of tomorrow/ in the craze of it all Now I blaze for you all/ made mistakes but I roll on Never fold on/ thoughts of the past Cause the future won't be putrid/ let the hate phase out man I'ma make it I'ma I'ma make it/ Back on the pavement sweating for the payment I'ma make it I'ma I'ma make it/ I won't be held down never held down I'ma make it I'ma I'ma make it/ Mr. Clean fresh one level out the basement I'ma make it I'ma I'ma make it/ I won't be held down never held down Timber who Dr. What/ everybody saying Timber who Dr. What/ they know who be playing Timber who Dr. What/ ya'll know me D Money/ representing four o three Like skittles/ you can always taste my riddles of hip-hop Decipher what I'm saying/ in the world of lip lock/ I'm bringing made flavour/ to the people of the grid lock Rhyme style of times/ like "Money Money Making" I'ma make it I'ma I'ma make it/ Back on the pavement sweating for the payment I'ma make it I'ma I'ma make it/ I won't be held down never held down I'ma make it I'ma I'ma make it/ Mr. Clean fresh one level out the basement I'ma make it I'ma I'ma make it/ I won't be held down never held down