What’s Your World

Lyrics

[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