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[Intro:Dr.Maya Angelou]
Everyone in the world is going to bed one night or another with fear or pain or loss
Or disappointment, and yet each of us has awaken arisen
Some how made our absolution, seen other human beings, and said
âMorning how are you? Fine thanks and you?â And itâs amazing
Wherever that abides in the human being, there is the nobleness of the human spirit
Despite it all, black and white, Asian, Spanish, Native American, pretty, plain, thin, fat
Vow to celibateâ¦we rise
[Verse 1: D-Mac]
Through the cracks of the concrete grew a rose
Blossoming every moment I stay true to my soul
My pops asked son what you gonna do with your flows?
Kick knowledge or talk about money,cars, and clothes?
And hoes? I told em both I gotta Iâm from the slums
I deserve to tell em what I got now I started with none
But to motivateâs my m-o, and i do it because
If i never make it I might inspire someone who does
And make em think that they can cuz they could
They try to make us think it aint no way up out the hood
And we believe and grieve cuz weâre naive and we don't know no better
So I don't write raps I focus spreading open letters
Like Dear Destiny, Iâm just trying to get you next to me
Give me that and Iâll give u the best of me
I bet youâll see nothing less from me, I think weâre meant to be
Especially cuz Iâm from where your budgetâs small and dreams way bigger
Where the cabs donât come and where the pizza don't deliver
Grew up seeing bullet holes through my windows of opportunity
Aint no unity its all for self its either you or me
So Iâm doing me but I still do it for my corner
Where I sipped on those coronas and lit up that marijuana
I swear on everything until the day that Iâm a goner
Imma wake up everyday and go harder than morning boners
One of a kind canât clone him
Fuck slaving at 9 to 5âs Iâm striving to be the owner
Got the persona of a loner, only trust few
Itâs a must you, cut a check or yes its fuck you, yeah fuck you
I donât need new friends, I donât need loose ends
I just need new ends,rims for a new benz
Brims for my new timbs, gin paper and a pen
Grins from all of my kin, proud that I get it in to make it out
Goals to grands, dreams to dollars, ideas to income, nigga, plans to prophet
Couldnât afford dates, shared plates at Boston Market
Now my bottom bitch in red bottoms on red carpets
Verses like books out the bible that ghetto gospel
Street sermons, Hood hymns, Proverbs for the projects
Poetic & image so photogenic
Leave yo hoe alone a second then be ready for home wreckage
Check me out at times square, chilling with my circle
Ace of spades out the bottle, swisher's filled with the purple
The plates surf and turf, cocktail sauce for prawn
You get used to them shula steaks when you become a don
Was rocking Sean John now its Louis V and Bally
My partners long gone I do it to make emâ happy
In heaven smiling down on me I talk to em in my dreams
Used to run with Roy and Keem, young and thugging as teens
40 tucked in my jeans, its nothing to squeeze
I come on the scene, fucking clean, the fuck do you mean
Do i love hoes? hell no I fuck em and leave
You niggas cuffing emâ? please, Iâm one and done with your queen
Nigga I'm a king, Martin reincarnated
And boy I got a dream, me and my team all make it
Iâm just trying to do my thing, and some of yall hating
Waiting for my downfall I use yall as motivation
Motivate me in this world where it seems everybody wanna eat
But nobody wanna season the meat
Acting like we aint got the same hours in a day
When I was out here grinding you was out here trying to play
I was making visions, you was chasing bitches
So you aint gotta question the success you aint getting
And if you aint risking don't expect to make a lot
Dog how you gone score if you don't ever take a shot?
Imma make it to the top, even if it takes a lot
Boy I'm ready for whatever the devil cant make me stop
Iâm a Brownsub nigga boy I came up on the block
Brownsub nigga boy we came up on a block
[Hook: D-Mac]
Where we grind, we ball
we rise, we fall
and then we rise again nigga, and then we rise again nigga
Cuz real niggas take losses, and don't whine
we get the fuck up and get on our grind
and we rise again nigga, and then we rise again nigga
I said still I rise
[Outro: Dr. Maya Angelou]
Out of the huts of history's shame, I rise â¨Up from a past that's rooted in pain, I rise â¨A black ocean, leaping and wide, â¨Welling and swelling I bear in the tide â¨Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise â¨Into a daybreak miraculously clear, I rise â¨Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, â¨I am the hope and the dream of the slave
And so naturally, there I go rising.