The best rap bars

My big brother was B.I.G.'s brother

So here's a few words from ya kid brother

If you admire somebody, you should go on 'head tell 'em

People never get the flowers while they can still smell 'em

Drug dealer buy Jordan, crackhead buy crack

And the white man get paid off of all of that

It seem we livin' the American Dream

But the people highest up got the lowest self-esteem

Life's not a bitch, life is a beautiful woman

You only call her a bitch 'cause she won't let you get that pussy

Maybe she didn't feel y'all shared any similar interests (Nope)

Or maybe you're just an asshole who couldn't sweet talk the princess (Haha)

They don't make statues of critics, they don't make statues of fans

I'm not no poli-ma-tician, I can't be shakin' them hands

Facts on tracks I recite well

Everybody wanna be like Mike, but Mike wanna be like L

The code words to killin' a black man by police is, "He's got a gun"

Damned if he do, damned if he don't, damned if he runs

Yeah, life's short, don't ever question the length

It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength

And realized counting money never feel as good as counting blessings

And a loaded mind is more dangerous than a loaded weapon

These cats drink champagne to toast death and pain

Like slaves on a ship talking about who got the flyest chain

'Cause if you go platinum, it's got nothing to do with luck

It just means that a million people are stupid as fuck

I would be Ivy League if America played fair

Poor excuse, and so I was

Gettin' bread every day, I graduated from biscuits

I don't do karate, so why lil' shawty wanna kick it?

Call it a curse

Or just call me blessed

If you can't handle my worst

You ain't gettin' my best

It's funny how money change a situation

Miscommunication lead to complication

My emancipation don't fit your equation

It's what I live for, you take away that and I'm gone

There's a difference between doin' wrong and bein' wrong

When I’m gettin’ introspective: that’s radio silence

When I’m fuckin’ up program directives: that’s radio violence

I live by the beat like you live check-to-check

If it don't move your feet, then I don't eat

People sellin' drugs 'cause they can't find no job

Wonder if Christ made a million off of sellin' the cross

Cherish these nights, cherish these people

Life is a movie, but there'll never be a sequel

I scored 1.1 on my S.A.T.

And still push a whip with a right and left A.C

I am no longer trying to survive

I believe that life is a prize

But to live doesn't mean you're alive

Oh well, guess you lose some and win some

Long as the outcome is income

Just 'cause he from the ghetto, that don't mean he sellin' crack

He drivin' home from work, you pull him over 'cause he black

Think he gangbangin' 'cause he got dreads and a few tats

Gotta keep it on me, I don't wanna die young

I rather be judged by twelve, than carried by six

Even the sun goes down, heroes eventually die

Horoscopes often lie

And sometimes, "Y"

Nothing is for sure, nothing is for certain

We cannot be trusted with the stuff that we come up with

The machinery could eat us, we just really love our buttons, um

Imagine peace on this Earth when there's no grief

Imagine grief on this Earth when there's no peace

We independent women, some mistake us for whores

I'm sayin', "Why spend mine when I can spend yours?"

My little boy seven, he the sequel to the thug

So I told him the money will never equal to the love

He say, she say rumors all day

The rap game is high school and life's a hallway

Know the wolves that hunt you

In time, they will be the dogs that bring your slippers

Love them right and you will feel them kiss you when they come to bite

The grace as I ease across the stage

Bars around the audience, sort of like a cage

They laugh, 'cause they assume I'm in prison

But in reality, they're locked in

Black entrepreneur, nobody did us no favors

Nobody gave us shit, we made us

Spoke some things into the universe and they appeared

I say it's worth it, I won't say it's fair

Find your purpose or you wastin' air

Would you feed a grown man or expect him to hunt?

They take the money out the hood, but never invested in us

To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothin'

To all the people that lived above the buildings that I was hustlin' in front of

No matter what you say or what you do

When I'm alone, I'd rather be with you

There are too many young black brothers doing life bids

'Cause justice means, 'just us white kids'

You say you wanna be my leader, I think you wanna be my God

You say you on the side of the righteous (Right) I say I'm gonna hang with the wrong

Niggas frown when you up and smile when you down

And when you change for the better, shife fools stop comin' around

Hip-hop is a freedom of expression

Not a freedom of depression

I'm not gon' lie and portray, um, this ultimate poise

Like I been had it figured out

Nah, I just didn't quit

If every nigga in your clique is rich, your clique is rugged

Nobody will fall 'cause everyone will be each others crutches

God on my line after all, but I ain't pick up when he called

Matter of fact, I ain't pick up at all, cause my bills paid now

Said my grace now, my lights is still on, so why would I pray now?

I told him, "Give up the dough, before you get smoked"

Oh you're broke? *gunshots* Now you're dead broke

One eye on my opps, two eyes on my friends

'Cause at least with my opps, man knows their intentions

Broken promises, steal your watch and tell you what time it is

Take your J's and tell you to kick it where a Foot Locker is

Always gon' be a whip that's better than the one you got

Always gon' be some clothes that's fresher than the ones you rock

Always gon' be a bitch that's badder out there on the tours

But you ain't never gon' be happy 'til you love yours

We on our back, starin' at the stars above (Aww, man)

Talkin' bout what we gonna be when we grow up (Mm)

I said, "What you wanna be?" She said, "Alive"