Hard Knocks Lyrics

Yeah, hard knockin'

Street, concrete babies with one toxic parent

And the other one who did they best to get to college

Things don't pan out

Pops left, man out

Emotional damage turnin' into personal panic

Internal struggle within, turn to your brother again

Remind him how he made you feel when he stayed through the thick and thin

We all wanna be kids again

Jokin' and kiddin' with friends

Potent, our words turn into motion

So speak em and live

Mama had to do the soldier dance, left foot, right foot

She made sure that she had told me plans

Gone for the day but, I'll be back by the night again

Told me to stay put

Sometimes I wonder when nightmares will end

I always woke up when I needed to

You know that's the truth of every single challenge that you're goin' through

Goons inside my mind have wrapped around me a special noose

And they don't wanna let me loose

Balanced on the beam of talents

Work ethic has kept me true

Tryin' to start a new wave, but for now I'm MP2

MP3, you don't wanna be with me

Seein' as I do all these things, they wanna envy me

I just started lookin' in the mirror without sympathy

And realizin' that I could change the course and be a better me

Sharper than the letter V

Great as what I better be

Kept em in the dark for too long and so I let em see

Me and my best friend we go together like a businessman and hella greed

Music all I ever need

Long as I can write my pain down and share it with the streets

Hope that it's inspiring

Hope that I can get to certain heights before retiring

Look inside my mind and it's a, it's a, oh my, oh my god

That's just life, I'm cold cause I done made it through the pain and all the strife

Livin' in a country where you ain't had no rights if you was black skinned

Now the people finally see the beauty in the black skin

Only way that we could really eat was on the back end

From scraps to gettin' on the map we put it back in

This pen of mine tellin' their stories I get to rappin'

And the best stories, have endings you won't guess

I'm clueless where this life will take me next

I just know that every move I make important like a game of chess

So I gotta play it best, and when I see an obstacle take the time to reassess

Be my guest

Be my guest

This journey we gon' take is gon' be long and full of stress