Could Be Worse

They try to tell me that it could be worse Or that’s just how the system works You just try to appease my mind But baby I got time today They try to tell me that it could be worse Or that’s just how the system works You just try to appease my mind But baby I got time today Yeah… look Pick out my nappy hair You call it nappy my definitions don’t matter here I know its early but safe to say I been sad this year Been fighting problems, my fury just getting wilder yea Bring up the topic and all the sudden a pen drop And I can hear it, you say you hear me, I think not I give statistics and you deliver a deep shot Been guarding flowers, my safest picture to hit crop I go to sleep but I’m wondering when did hip hop Get so polluted, and flint been saying its non-stop You look at me and you asking me when do crime stop We ask it too while you putting us in a pine box They try to tell me that it could be worse Or that’s just how the system works You just try to appease my mind But baby I got time today They try to tell me that it could be worse Or that’s just how the system works You just try to appease my mind But baby I got time today Look, A dope dealer could probably run him a business But knowing you, you would run him right out of business A hood nigga on the corner selling shirts Got the mind to go and triple his worth That one family that’s going through all they all mess They got problems but money they biggest stress They took a loan but getting killed by interest Got two jobs, they really got nothing left My daddy broke, my momma broke and so am I So, they not home and f*ck it neither am I Because we got bills that don’t show up to the pity party Don’t have credentials, don’t got degrees and don’t drive Ferrari Just trying to get it, it's scaring you. I ain’t saying sorry My momma aint had a pedicure since Bush inaugie But still you treat me like you just don’t understand But I know that that’s because they aint never forced your hand You aint never been denied a good job for three years Bills still coming through, cause they aint waiting for you here If you was placed in my position tell me where would you steer And if you was ever me that last thing you'd want to hear is that it Could be worse Or that’s just how the system works You just try to appease my mind But baby I got time today They try to tell me that it could be worse Or that’s just how the system works You just try to appease my mind But baby I got time today