Silently, gon' tiptoe around you
Silently, I walk past your momma's door
Silently, only trick my absent father
Talk to me, as he walked on out the door
Violently, I spent my youth routinely
Violently, innocence was torn away
Violently, I suppressed all I was feeling
Finally, a man took me away
I been steppin' lively through it all
Never hearing anybody's call
I been steppin' lively through it all
Never hearing anybody's call
Nothing to lose, mentality is beastly
Raised amongst the most ferocious, life wasn't easy
Slinging them stones, banging them toasters, nobody cares
Neither did I, 'cause my father left me to fry
In this hell of a world where stray bullets'll snipe ya
Generals look for soldiers with hearts so they can stripe ya
Dirty dope fiends that's evil, they got the needle twitch
Veins are polluted, they zooted, dozing off of that fix
Matilda nephew Lavel, he turned states on his kingpin, kid
A couple of months back, she ain't seen him since
I guess he caught a bad deal, he grew up to follow the code
But once that code is broken, that's the end
Good riddance, them killers, they came and pinched him
They stopped his cash flow, no if, ands or buts, he gotta go
He got what he deserved, if it was me
I would've clipped his whole family, understand me?
I been steppin' lively through it all
Never hearing anybody's call
I been steppin' lively through it all
Never hearing anybody's call
Life is a hustle, the struggle is all real
When there's nothing in the kitchen to eat, you gotta kill
Am I wrong for that? My family gotta eat by any means
Which means if I gotta spray this machine
And bodybag something, toe tag something
Creep through the hood silently and spaz on 'em
Without a warning, it's like that, my rank is official
Pearl-handled pistols, I'm serious business
Strictly, who got a issue?
I need that duffle bag action so I can transform the
Poverty ways into the main attraction, but yo
Life'll throw you all kinds of situations
It's a full time job trying to dodge incarceration
Blow something heavy, keep my thoughts circulating
'Cause what I'm contemplating is really premeditated
Red rum, don't blame me for my actions
Blame my environment that I'm a product of
Only my A-alikes'll coincide with me, hear me?
My innocence was snatched early, so fear don't live here
Word to Allah, I shine pearly, all I got is my word and pride
And won't swallow that for nothing, so take it in blood
