Came A Long Way

Reflecting on the place that we came from We came a long way Back when we didn't have it had to take some We made our own way Coming up the strong way We learned how to get it at a young age And we had to run plays But we knew that we would make it out one day Growing up was so troubling We was into the women but wasn't cuffing em We just wanted some money so we was hustling it Had some problems with people so we was scuffling Looking back on it it was nothing then Kept the circle small only had a couple friends And we was eating cause of the government Them food stamps really filled up the fridge Lost a lot of people that I used to know Some to the graveyard other ones was moving dope Even had some people that was doing coke That's the way they coped when they was losing hope We did things not caring about the aftermath It's a good thing that we grew out of that Found a way to not be victim to my habitat Made it out the struggle and I'm proud of that Reflecting on the place that we came from We came a long way Back when we didn't have it had to take some We made our own way Coming up the strong way We learned how to get it at a young age And we had to run plays But we knew that we would make it out one day Dreams of success Been through a lot of things I can't seem to express Got a lot of problems that I need to address But I have things that I can't seem to accept Like the need to just for me to see a freak in a dress And then want to see how deep is her neck Always talk to God because I need to confess About a lot of things that I've seen when I'm stressed So young and so innocent We had no idea what we was dealing with Some things that we seen we never will forget But you can't tell a soul you gotta live with it We used to want to sell drugs just to eat Cause we thought that that was everything there was just to be But then we found out there was no love in the streets Just some slugs and a whole lot of blood in the streets Reflecting on the place that we came from We came a long way Back when we didn't have it had to take some We made our own way Coming up the strong way We learned how to get it at a young age And we had to run plays But we knew that we would make it out one day Had a lot of things that we prayed about But we always knew that we would make it out As long as a hater didn't take us out Now we older and we really getting paper now Had a lot of things that we prayed about But we always knew that we would make it out As long as a hater didn't take us out Now we older and we really getting paper now Reflecting on the place that we came from We came a long way Back when we didn't have it had to take some We made our own way