Make It All Right

Ain't had a dime so I had to go get it Everyday crime now they call me a menace It's a line thru my city & it's only gettin bigger No daddy in the house, no mama in the kitchen But I see pages turning, blocks been burning Ash give way to the light So you can keep yo sermons, who you serving The plan is to make it all right Aye Bullets thrown faster than footballs Now we play 2-hand touch behind prison walls, but why? We do what we see, everybody pitching packs, I'm jus living the dream The OGs tryna teach that it ain't way it seem So I'm searching for an answer on an iPhone screen, uhh Scroll & stop, it's funny to watch Til I'm the next viral clip getting chased by the cops, ahhh Ain't had a dime so I had to go get it Everyday crime now they call me a menace It's a line thru my city & it's only gettin bigger No daddy in the house, no mama in the kitchen But I see pages turning, blocks been burning Ash give way to the light So you can keep yo sermons, who you serving The plan is to make it all right Parents was there & I still didn't care Tryna find where I fit but the streets ain't fair & neither was the system, one misstep now Ima villain, a heathen flooding the city No misdemeanor & u know why Black on both sides Neva had blue eyes So trouble I can't try A Chi-town train ride Made to pick sides The violence be senseless But answers don't lie Ain't had a dime so I had to go get it Everyday crime now they call me a menace It's a line thru my city & it's only gettin bigger No daddy in the house, no mama in the kitchen But I see pages turning, blocks been burning Ash give way to the light So you can keep yo sermons, who you serving The plan is to make it all right From Cabrini to Robert We was stored by the thousands Black folks, Guinea pigs For this new public housing (Chi-City!) Migrated to starvation, a decline up north War on drugs snatched the men & crack babies were birthed (Didn't give a damn) Englewood to Austin, we took them losses Cuts to education, our youth hurt often (Every one) The past exhausting, now we tired of marching Bring our seeds to the garden Birth a new harvest (Let's Grow) We been thru some hellish days Slept in fire called it safe Now we know from who we came Can't back out or point the blame It's in our hands, we can mold it well Do more wit Love than gun shells Gotta lot to build, time is ours Can't break us down when we got the power Ain't had a dime so I had to go get it Everyday crime now they call me a menace It's a line thru my city & it's only gettin bigger No daddy in the house, no mama in the kitchen But I see pages turning, blocks been burning Ash give way to the light So you can keep yo sermons, who you serving The plan is to make it all right Ain't had a dime so I had to go get it Everyday crime now they call me a menace (They don't know) It's a line thru my city & it's only gettin bigger (Locked away) No daddy in the house, no mama in the kitchen (Ain't nobody here, now) But I see pages turning, blocks been burning (Aye [life]) Ash give way to the light (Need it all) So you can keep yo sermons, who you serving (Aye) The plan is to make it all right (Aye, aye, aye)