Strive - Radio Edit
I just wanna be the man
I don't think y'all understand
Working (Work)
Working
Working
I just wanna be the man
I just wanna world up in my hand
Working
Working
Working (Yeah yeah yeah)
I just wanna be the man
I don't think y'all understand
That I'm working
I'm working
I'm working yeah
I just want to be the man
I just want to have the world up in my hand (Yeah)
I'm working
I'm working
I'm working working yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah)
Strive for a goal
Never blind but I fold
Bread right up in my pocket
And my mind full of gold
Got to put your feet to the floor
To make a step
Pedal to the metal
Tunnel your vision and do the best
That you can do
Looking at them we resemble each other
Call me your brother then pull the pistol Suspenseful
Low self esteem and resentful
The streets raised most of the hood
No parental
Motivated counting the odds
That's against you
We all have a talent a skill
Some potential
Push through like inner strength
It's within you
Whoever don't eat at the table
Is on the menu
Simple we roll up one
For the mental
Celebrate the ones that's here
Who been officially
We the Fam
Thoughts visual got to see the plan
The road rough
Got to work hard wanna be the man
I just wanna be the man
I don't think y'all understand
That I'm working
I'm working
I'm working yeah
I just wanna be the man
I just wanna have the world up in my hand (Yeah)
I'm working
I'm working
I'm working yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah)
The stories they done told them all
Never been a show it off
You'll learn that
You know nothing
Thinking you know it all
I think that I was born to brawl
All my life had to fight
Words from the wise old timer
Thought it was bad advice
We was out acting like
Hustlers trapper life
Faking it just to make it
My wasn't the capping type
Going hard all in the paint
But wasn't Shaq in height
Sports drugs or entertainment
It was c***k or mics
Re again
We ain't have nothing to believing in
Ain't see it then
Mislead youth tryna be the man
From teens to men
The streets make it hard to find peace within
We was then
Taught hold your emotions
Told to keep it in
I know I can if could
Put my mind on it
Be whatever I wanna be
Just like Nas chorus
Mind forces telling right now
The time calling
Grind towards it
Very hard and often got to strive for it
Black people walk like that cause we have style
We got flavor
We got rhythm
I mean bar none
Everybody wanna be a
But nobody wanna be a
How about that question
The Colonel's a now
The Colonel's a now
He done earned so much chicken he's a now
I just wanna be the man
I don't think y'all understand
That I'm working
I'm working
I'm working yeah
I just want to be the man
I just want to have the world up in my hand (Yeah)
I'm working
I'm working
Working yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah)
I just wanna be the man
Yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah)
I don't think y'all understand
Working (Work)
Working
Working
I just wanna be the man
I just wanna world up in my hand
Working
Working
Working (Yeah yeah yeah)
I just wanna be the man
I don't think y'all understand
That I'm working
I'm working
I'm working yeah
I just want to be the man
I just want to have the world up in my hand (Yeah)
I'm working
I'm working
I'm working working yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah)
Strive for a goal
Never blind but I fold
Bread right up in my pocket
And my mind full of gold
Got to put your feet to the floor
To make a step
Pedal to the metal
Tunnel your vision and do the best
That you can do
Looking at them we resemble each other
Call me your brother then pull the pistol Suspenseful
Low self esteem and resentful
The streets raised most of the hood
No parental
Motivated counting the odds
That's against you
We all have a talent a skill
Some potential
Push through like inner strength
It's within you
Whoever don't eat at the table
Is on the menu
Simple we roll up one
For the mental
Celebrate the ones that's here
Who been officially
We the Fam
Thoughts visual got to see the plan
The road rough
Got to work hard wanna be the man
I just wanna be the man
I don't think y'all understand
That I'm working
I'm working
I'm working yeah
I just wanna be the man
I just wanna have the world up in my hand (Yeah)
I'm working
I'm working
I'm working yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah)
The stories they done told them all
Never been a show it off
You'll learn that
You know nothing
Thinking you know it all
I think that I was born to brawl
All my life had to fight
Words from the wise old timer
Thought it was bad advice
We was out acting like
Hustlers trapper life
Faking it just to make it
My wasn't the capping type
Going hard all in the paint
But wasn't Shaq in height
Sports drugs or entertainment
It was c***k or mics
Re again
We ain't have nothing to believing in
Ain't see it then
Mislead youth tryna be the man
From teens to men
The streets make it hard to find peace within
We was then
Taught hold your emotions
Told to keep it in
I know I can if could
Put my mind on it
Be whatever I wanna be
Just like Nas chorus
Mind forces telling right now
The time calling
Grind towards it
Very hard and often got to strive for it
Black people walk like that cause we have style
We got flavor
We got rhythm
I mean bar none
Everybody wanna be a
But nobody wanna be a
How about that question
The Colonel's a now
The Colonel's a now
He done earned so much chicken he's a now
I just wanna be the man
I don't think y'all understand
That I'm working
I'm working
I'm working yeah
I just want to be the man
I just want to have the world up in my hand (Yeah)
I'm working
I'm working
Working yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah)
I just wanna be the man
Yeah yeah yeah yeah (Yeah)
Credits
Writer(s): Anthony Lake
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