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Yeah, yeah, yeah
I gotta send this one out to a people
Who are in the midst of genocide (We need to be strong)
Six hundred thousand brothers in jail
Brothers, we got to hang on
My mind is poisoned from the pictures that I see (On TV)
The hookers or the killers always seem to look like me (Black)
A silly plan or a super stupid plot (Always gotta hustle)
It's always me that the rock has seemed to got (Money)
You let them tell it and I'm already through (He won't do nothing)
I just can't take it, what am I supposed
To do? (What am I supposed to do?)
And all of my heroes are rarely ever seen (Only in drama)
You kill off one just for having a
Dream (Long live Martin Luther King)
Every time we get it together, Uncle Toms break us on up
We're just like crabs in a basket, won't nobody
Let nobody up (Why do we pull each other down?)
I can't find a job (Can't find a job) with decent pay (Nowhere)
I hate the neighborhood (Rats) where I stay (Rock stars)
I'd call on God (God) but I don't pray (No, I don't)
I don't think I'll make it (It don't look good)
Anyway, my mind is gone
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(You've got to hang on, yeah)
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(Don't let go, don't let go)
I see my homies (Homies) just living so large (They rolling)
They pass me by with no regards (No regards)
Rolling hard, the benefits of the game (Of the game)
They got super fat, plus they got
That Oaktown fame (Playground niggas)
I try to fight it but I gotta survive (Survival)
You can't tell me nothing when I'm
Barely alive (I got to eat my brother)
I lost my woman and my self-respect (What's really going on?)
I think it's time that I go and grab a gat (I don't know what to do)
And walk the streets (Streets) and
Sling me some dope (Sling your dope)
I got no money, plus I lost all hope, I'm gone
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(You've got to hang on, yeah)
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(Don't let go, don't let go)
And now I'm sweating (Sweating) '
Cause my mind is so confused (Confused)
And I don't know which way that I
Should choose (I could go either way)
Mama would cry if she only knew (It would break my mama's heart)
What I think that I'm about to do (I gotta do it)
My gun is loaded (Loaded) and Joe is waiting (I'm waiting)
And in this game, I could die for just faking (Perpetrating)
So here I go (Go), gotta take my chance (Life is a chance)
Drop this off and I'll make a quick grand (A quick G)
I'm scared as hell, I really don't want this life (No, I don't)
But I gotta do something if it's wrong
Or if it's right (I gotta survive)
It's not my fault (Fault), that's what I keep saying (Saying)
And inside my mind, "Help me, Lord," yo, now I'm praying, I'm gone
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(You've got to hang on, yeah)
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(Don't let go, don't let go)
Things have changed and I'm in deep (Real deep)
Two nines in my hand even when I'm asleep (If I sleep)
And if I sleep, I don't sleep long (Never too long)
Ten blocks of mine, yeah, it's going on (Strong)
A lot of fly girls stay on my jock (Jocking)
It get like that when your name is just so hot (In the streets)
On top in the streets and my bank is big (Real big)
And now I'm glad that I did what I did (I'm rolling big)
Fly suits, big cars, and plenty of gold (Like forty knots)
Jacuzzi bathtubs (Bubble up) and fly silk robes (They sick of that)
Enemies, I got 'em (So?), but I don't care (They just suckers)
It's better over here than it was over there, I think
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(You've got to hang on, yeah)
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(Hang on, hang on, hang on)
Someone is knocking, who could that be? (Who is it?)
A basshead at my door but I got no sympathy
You smoke the pipe (Glass dildo), then
That's your thing (That's your thing)
You try to jerk me, all you get is a bang (Ah)
Someone is knocking, who could that be? (Yo, who is it?)
Shots ring out, yo, they shooting at me (Ah, what's up?)
I grab my Uzi (Uzi) but it's too late (Late)
I'm not Tony the Tiger, so I don't feel so great (No, no)
My blood is running, I can feel it on my face (On my face)
And I wish somehow I could be back at my old place (Chillin')
I'm dying fast and I feel cold (Real cold)
Losing my life and twenty years of (How do you live?)
Don't wanna die as the tears fall from my eyes (I'm weeping)
It's getting dark and I'm scared as I cry (Oh no)
Gonna miss my mama and my family too (I love you, mama)
I should have hung on, now my life is through (I'm through)
I pray to God that you heed my song (My song)
Forget about the game and brothers (My brothers), hang on
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(You've got to hang on, yeah)
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(You've got to hang on, yeah)
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(That's all you gotta do, that's all you gotta do)
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(Hang, hang, hang)
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(You gotta try, it's the only way to survive)
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(Don't give up, keep it tough)
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(Hang on, come on)
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(We all gotta keep it tough, we all gotta hang)
Hang on, brothers, hang on
(The hammers gotta hang, busters gotta hang)
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