Some How, Some Way

(Hook)

Somehow, some way

We gotta make it up out the hood some day

Somehow, some way

We gotta make it up out this life

Somehow, some way

We gotta make it up out the hood some day

Somehow, some way

We gotta make it up out this life

(Hiatus)

I was born in July, midsummer’s heat

I was my parent’s perfectly conceived midsummer’s dream

Born into slavery, but bred to be a king

See, the pride of a lion, the hunger of one too

I was raised in the cage of the Commerce City zoo

With the snakes and the apes, tell me what’s a boy to do

Visions of a better life, visions of a family

But what woman got the strength that it takes to stand with me

Tryna see clearly from deep inside this mosh pit

That I can’t escape from just to get my dreams accomplished

Seems often in life I’ve only got two options

Either reach success or suffer from an early coffin

Too many wooden crosses lining both sides of this path

Souls that we loved that we ain’t ever getting back

So it seems there’s nothing I can I do other than rap

If there’s one things I know, I know that

(Hook)

(Adverse)

I was born in January the festives of winter

Came to my parents on a Tuesday, special delivered

Blessed with a vision, came out the womb prepared

And ever since my focus been on a music career

I wanna rock the stage like the greats, make the crowd move like waves

Put a smile on their face, give common ground for the pain

But since graduation I slipped off recording, I fell

Baby say she miss my voice, I’m looking for it myself

I got a dream that’s more important than wealth

Want legendary status like Big, now that’s a story to tell

Instead of self-loathing, held captive in my room

Brain scrambled like the static on the tube

I remember listening to Styles before I had my own

But I feel you David, I’m still a ghost in my home

What can I do, I know destiny’s all powerful

But if the future’s set in stone I’m breaking out like Excalibur

(Hook)

(Hood$Rich)

August fifth ninety-one was when I started my life

I had delusions that the path that I was set on was right

Daddy left her, so of course my mother paid up the price

Became addicted to the clothes, cars, platinum, and ice

Think twice, treat your mama better homie, look at how she struggling

A job, house, bills, and little brother, she juggling

Just to stay stable somehow, some way I gotta put food on the table

I started my own label

Know I hit the jackpot, courage, pride, wisdom, responsible for what I got

Never change homie, I’ll never be an imposter

No olvidas soy Mexicano, viva la Raza

Repping Lion Pride, you could’ve sworn that I was Rasta

Yeah the past I never miss, but every once in a while

Reminisce, I reminisce somehow, some way

(Hook)