Hustle & grind

Go hard or go home

Cash rules everything around me

C.R.E.A.M., get the money

Dollar, dollar bill, y'all

When you’re not fed with a silver spoon you learn to lick it off a knife.

If I wasn't in the rap game

I'd probably have a ki, knee-deep in the crack game

Because the streets is a short stop

Either you're slingin' crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot

I don't dance now, I make money moves (Ayy, ayy)

I'm out for dead presidents to represent me

Because I've never known a live one that represent me

Coke like a caterpillar, I make butter fly

I used to sell dope, nigga, now I can't vote (Vote)

Gettin' bread every day, I graduated from biscuits

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

Why is the industry designed to keep the artist in debt?

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

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

Oh well, guess you lose some and win some

Long as the outcome is income

The more you sweat in training, less you bleed in combat

Black entrepreneur, nobody did us no favors

Nobody gave us shit, we made us

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

Like I been had it figured out

Nah, I just didn't quit

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

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

Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week

Being a feminist is being equal to do what a man do. Niggas hustle, and I hustle niggas.

We said a oath when we was kids, forever break the law

I used to hit the kitchen lights, cockroaches everywhere

Hit the kitchen lights: now it's marble floors, everywhere! (haha)

I'm a businessman, you ain't never been the man

I got a few mil' but not all of them rich

What good is the bread if my niggas is broke?

What good is first class if my niggas can't sit?

That's my next mission, that's why I can't quit

Like keep grindin', boy, your life can change in one year

And even when it's dark out, the sun is shinin' somewhere

My grandma told me, "If you write your name in stone, you'll never get the White-Out"

I grinded out that black hole, then performed up at the White House

A fraternity of drug dealers ringin' off

I just happen to be alumni

Too legit, they still lookin' at me with one eye

Only in America could you find a way to earn a healthy buck

And still keep your attitude on self-destruct

You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub'

Look, mami, I got the X if you into takin' drugs

I'm into havin' sex, I ain't into makin' love

So come give me a hug if you into gettin' rubbed

It's a small world, so you better guard your secrets

And it's easy to get money, but it's hard to keep it

Life is a gamble, we scramble for money

I might crack a smile, but ain't a damn thing funny

College was a plan of mine until I seen them fees

Everything I ever needed, I done learned out on them streets

Let's cram numbers, easily

The only rapper sold more dope than me was Eazy-E

How could you ever right these wrongs

When you don't even write your songs?

Everybody here was born to hustle

It's a very thin line between the boss and the muscle

But I've been workin' on myself and that's the most important work, even if you don't get paid for it, shit

Now I remember, I used to be cool

'Til I stopped fillin' out my W-2

Went from makin' tuna sandwiches to makin' the news

I started speakin' my mind and tripled my views

I am a diamond cluster hustler

Queen bitch, supreme bitch

Laughed at my rise like my motion was funny

Yes, ashy to classy, my lotion is money

Imagination turned a Honda into Wraith

Why you don't stack instead of tryin' to be fly?

When the ideas are coming, I don't stop until the ideas stop because that train doesn't come along all the time.

Labels used to treatin' rappers like a slave, nigga

Starvin' artist, "Just be happy with your fame, nigga"

Shit changed, now it's such a different game

All the niggas like myself is controlling everything

Fuck it, I'd rather sell reefer than do pizza delivery

My hard work finally catchin' up with perfect timin'

Rappers aren’t the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone’s business to be super wealthy

I'm the connection that you need when they say it's a drought (Drought)

'Cause it's not really a drought, them other niggas just out (Out)

And I'm the plug you gotta have when they say the river's dry (Why?)

'Cause it's not really dry, they just ran out of supply ('Ply)

You too deep in it to quit, I know the pain of it

You love the game but knowin' that the game doesn't

Love you back, love the fact this the same struggle

City to city, we products of the same hustle

This year, I learnt how to take care of business

Next year, I'll learn how to play the guitar

Somehow the rap game reminds me of the crack game

Used to sport Bally's and Cazals with black frames

Now I'm into fat chains, sex and TECs

Fly new chicks and new kicks, Heines and Beck's

People think hustlin is cool (cool), all hustlin is live

They don't understand hustlers only hustlin to survive

Never mix my feelings with my dealings (Never)

I rock shows by myself

Ain't no backup, ain't no help

Ain't no nigga put me on

Ho, I earned all my respect

I started from the basement, made it to the skyscrapers (Straight up)

You've got to be more into money than chicks. Your brain has to operate differently.

Reportin' live from the fuckin' gutter, bitch

I got power, poison, pain, and joy inside my DNA

I got hustle, though, ambition flow inside my DNA

Back in high school, I used to bus it to the dance (Yeah)

Now I hit the FBO with duffels in my hands

Came a long way from extension cords in the window

Borrow neighbor's power just to plug up the Nintendo

Nobody gave me nothing, this is just where I landed

Yo, been in rich places, sick places

See, my story six thousand, six hundred sixty-six pages

Wages, I rolled six aces

And at the same dice game, I caught six cases

I won't even come out the house for free

I pay a nigga to drive for me (Huh?)

JAY-Z couldn't even co-sign for me

I do what I want 'cause I'm signed to me (Damn)