Pursuit of Happiness (Intro)

You could say I was born on the upper west
That was back when white folk got off the train before 96th
They call it SOHA now
To be honest that don't exist
They gentrifying my sh*t
I came from humble means but never grew up in the bricks
Right next door
Still daddy had a vision
A fence that's picket
For his children and his Mrs
And he da*n sure wasn't gon miss it
Made it out to Jersey
Now we moving up
Mama kept me in them books
Daddy kept me out the slums
I distracted myself with college and that still aint do enough
Young Black Genius and I still don't give a f*ck
Cuz being forced across the Atlantic
Done turned me to a bandit
Orbit 'round God's sun (son) and things work how you plan it (planet)
No Venus but its zero love unless its family
That's tennis sh*t like my bracelet
N*gga They don't understand me
Hold up
I be spitting amo
You gon have to keep a crown around my head like SAMO
I go where you can't go
I'm known to go rambo
The blunt got me higher than sopranos
Before I was hot I had fans though
So we on different levels baby
How can I run into you
I aint ducking
I aint hiding
You just cannot get up in these rooms
The sh*t get taxin
I'm dripped in fashion
Now they think I owe them (odom)
Like Lamar
So everybody asking

If your peace is blind
And no truth you'll find
Breathe the word of light
I aint making it that easy
Making it that easy

They started sending me back and fourth
GWB from Englewood to East Harlem New York
Mama and Daddy broke up
I got mad jumped off the porch
I started running I aint even know what I was running for
B*tch say my name wrong or its war
Cuz man they
Took our last names and we resisted with our firsts
So they called our first names ratchet
And wouldn't give us no work
So to every Laquisha Roquita Shaniqua that I know
Well know ya mama named you with power in her soul
And she was bold
And look
Daughter of Oshun
That learned about life too soon
I keep a rocket in my pocket
Incase these crackers act a fool
And y'all got the nerve to ask me why I got this tool
As if it aint the white boys out here shooting up these schools
And look
Dominated by hatred
Baptized in the same water they let the alligators
Eat the babies
That gave way to the wading
That lead to paper chasing
400 years of that waiting
If you got it Ima take it
That trauma leads to impatience

If your peace is blind
And no truth you'll find
Breathe the word of light
I aint making it that easy
Making it that easy

I can touch the sky and I know it
I got angels on my side and they focused
Almost at the top gotta keep going
Stay in motion
Stay in motion
Stay in motion
Stay in motion
Yeah Yeah
I can touch the sky and I know it
I got angels on my side and they focused
Almost at the top gotta keep going
Stay in motion
Stay in motion
Stay in motion
Stay in motion
Yeah Yeah

If your peace is blind
And no truth you'll find
Breathe the word of light
I aint making it that easy
Making it that easy
Making it that easy
Making it that
Making it that
Making it that easy
Making it that easy
Making it that easy
Making it that easy