Critical

I be on this road
Out the grind to riches we gotta shine before we run outta time it's critical bottom line
Before I ever
Sign a line it's deeper than dollar signs
Remember them trying times
Thankful I still got my mind
I gotta be on power
99 Just hear me I gotta rhyme
For everything bout the times
Can't stop gotta climb
I be on this road
Out the grind we headed to dollar signs before we run outta time
It's critical bottom line

Have you ever been slept on ya whole life
And have you ever felt you can't do nothing right
Have you ever been down to ya last
Have you ever had to get ya son and you couldn't grab
Have you ever come from a family that's ripped apart
Have you ever been traumatized broken in the heart
And have you had a dad you just wish you never met
And have you ever been basically chronically depressed
Have you ever fell in love with a hoe
A little nigga had to learn I didn't know
Have you been booked twice had a baby (be)fore you graduated high school
Tell me have you wished you masturbated
Have you ever had to work dead end jobs to live
Feel like you wasting ya talent but ya talent bring no bread
Have you ever lived in trenches and in the county
Have they ever thought you had it easy now see

I be on this road
Out the grind to riches we gotta shine before we run outta time it's critical bottom line
Before I ever
Sign a line it's deeper than dollar signs
Remember them trying times
Thankful I still got my mind
I gotta be on power
99 Just hear me I gotta rhyme
For everything bout the times
Can't stop gotta climb
I be on this road
Out the grind we headed to dollar signs before we run outta time
It's critical bottom line

Telling yall my real life
I still write real kites make em feel right
I know what it feels like
The weed won't help if you never healed right
But I gotta blow everyday to feel nice
If you can't find a job only alternative is trap
What kinda alternative is that
Everybody ain't got this alternative to rap
And we gotta live it ain't no alternative to Black
I got a grandmom up in heaven watching over me
And she forever my lady on my Jodeci
And I guess she chillin where she really posed to be
Mom Dee what I gotta do to make them notice me
I'm having a hard time I be miserable
And it ain't in my head this shit is physical
I barely graduated been fired from every job
Bullshit with rap if you want but for me it's critical yeah

I be on this road
Out the grind to riches we gotta shine before we run outta time it's critical bottom line
Before I ever
Sign a line it's deeper than dollar signs
Remember them trying times
Thankful I still got my mind
I gotta be on power
99 Just hear me I gotta rhyme
For everything bout the times
Can't stop gotta climb
I be on this road
Out the grind we headed to dollar signs before we run outta time
It's critical bottom line