Understand-Lil' Keke/Grit Boyz

(Hook - 2x) Try to understand, all the s**t that I've been through Try to understand, I got a life to live too Try to understand, I got problems but I feel you Try to understand, I'm a man I got bills too (Pretty Todd) I never give the devil the pleasure, to ever take a fella off of his level Still, everything's right on schedule I had my personal vendettas, but I solved em Cause all that drama, could stop us from getting dollas I take advice from one, and that's my mama I made her a promise, my word is my honor Cause sure enough, I'm a grown up Just turned 21 there's money to get, and I'm trying to get me some So get your ass out my path, 'fore you get mashed Put a whole new career, in your new acts relapse What we have, is organized grinding In a mind of real niggaz, our vision's a clear picture I'm still with you, you ain't lost me I hope I ain't lost you I just, had to get that out fool And let niggaz know, a lil' something about school And struggle in this concrete, jungle I walk through (Scooby) I am dog, a grown man dog You don't understand, the plan at hand dog You see the potential, I mash to get cake Hustle Presidential, like a Bad Azz Mix Tape Say I live what I speak, so you best believe I grind to what's left for me, is left in these streets Listen up man, I mean with figgas I don't know if it's just me, but all I see is green pictures And I don't bother, with these in between niggaz Loyalty is my back bone, we the team nigga G-R-I-T-B-O Y-dolla sign, chump cause we need do' Respect is power, and power is money Money is time, money is the reason that I rhyme and grind Might I remind you, that I'm designed to Move anything out the way, of getting what's mine fool (H.A.W.K.) See the type of n***a I am, I give a good damn Bout anything, other than fam Just ten years ago, when I didn't have flow Before You Already Know, when I didn't have do' My mom's oldest seed, I had to take the lead Dreams of making believe, became make believe We was boys but we now men, ask once then you'll ask again How many times, will I have to lend You on the outside, looking in You don't know where I done been, do anything to get in I don't know how, some of you think But soon as you blink, they here on the first and fifteenth Now see I got bills too, feel me like you I feel you God damn, I got a life too Got a kid, and a wife too And how the hell they gon eat, if I still gotta feed you (Lil' Keke) Follow the vision, and we can walk the road clear I hustled and struggled, it was another long year I never had a brother, so I turned to the thugs No unconditional love, cause we ain't the same blood Tough guys, most y'all niggaz still bluffing I'm thinking while I'm puffing, I don't owe you niggaz nothing I'm changing my ways, I'm living my life new Nigga get your own thang, and see what your hustle do I done heard it all nigga, guess I'm chasing a dream Got a big family to feed, and I'm the coach of that team If you the s**t best believe, all the flies they love it When the plan going bad, everybody say f**k it And you recognize game, when the pain is felt And it's one thang fa sho, I ain't gon lie to myself So you busta ass niggaz, can't see night from day Understand black man, I got bills to pay (Hook - 2x)