What’s Your World

[Verse 1]

One time for the kids with no parents at home

Two times for single mothers raising 'em on they own

Daddy in jail, they already expected to fail

Get locked, another story to tell

Where I come from, you either hustle or you starve, slang or play ball

If not, then get a job

I hear a lot of brothers complain, but see, life is what you make it

So I hopped on a plane

And followed my dreams, left the world that I knew

From a bird's eye view, I peeped it: all the shit I been through

Would break the average man down but I'm still here

I went from rhyming on the corner, turned it to a career

I went from a group home to Michael Peretta's house

I'm thinkin' 'bout: What if I had taken the other route?

I'd probably be another name on a wall

Or a face on a shirt if I wasn't lacing this verse

But who knows...this is my world

[Refrain]

It's your world...where are you?

Would you share it...if it was cool?

[Verse 2]

Yeah, maintain, persevere by any means

If you sleep, how you gonna live out your every dream?

Game from an OG passed down to me

So I'm up when everybody in the town's asleep

Still tryna hold on and survivin' peers

Too many R.I.P.'s, empty bottles of beer

See, I come from a small town

And, oh, you ain't know, this is how we get down

Burner in the pea coat, preferably Desert Eagles

Let off and reload, get ready for the sequel

It happens every night, we from 'round here, so we know

Niggas hearts and half as big as they ego

No job so, how we 'posed to provide the honest way?

Look his son in his eyes, he need pay

Despite the lack of funds, he tells him it'll be okay

They cuttin' off welfare any day

Welcome to my world

[Refrain]

It's your world...where are you?

Would you share it...if it was cool?

[Outro dialogue]

This was, like, way before records were, I mean, even thought about being made

There was no such thing as a recording artist, rapper on a record, so to speak, you know

(What do you have on now?)

This was a real popular record, you know, in its time

And at this point here, it still is

I would just try to, like, take it apart and put together again