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[verse 1: Esham] I gotta make my own stacks, watch my own back, write my own raps Plus my own contract The back catalog I own all that But when starving and can't get a phone call back Niggas bout to tie em up cause we cause we know his times up So I had to cook cocaine and cut the crime up (?) these niggas heads like line ups I'm not a toy soldier cause I don't wind up real soldiers keep their grind up the hood is where you'll find us If be getting money if you're not never mind I'm hustle and flow and I'll be flowing for sure Trying to sit up there with never running Russеl getting dough [Chorus] I gotta hold chrome I gotta ride alonе Got a family at home but I'm on my own Trying to get this bread right I gotta hold chrome I gotta ride alone Got a family at home but I'm on my own Trying to get this bread right [verse 2: Esham] I gotta make my chips drive my own whips make my own grip from my manuscript Sign the devil's contract while my man you slip cause the only thing I planned to do was flip And the system ain't designed for you and me to win some people have no shame what the shit they do to win Way before pro tools and internet we was like fuck a deal slanging cassettes they was bring them checks from the hustle and flow We were moving them units cause they was ordering more shit was selling like crack out the record store On my way to getting money like Diddy for sure [Chorus] I gotta hold chrome I gotta ride alone Got a family at home but I'm on my own Trying to get this bread right I gotta hold chrome I gotta ride alone Got a family at home but I'm on my own Trying to get this bread right [verse 3: Esham] I'm working with my shit real grown shit the voices in my head won't leave me alone shit That 17 shot to the dome shit cause still I got my own fucking problems I'm dealing with My own brother locked up my own mother's sick what you going through huh? I'm on some other shit Got to pay my own bills make my own deals do my own kills if it gets that real Count my own skills got my own chrome wheels got my own big booty bitch in high heels My own murder resume filled with mass skills got my own twenty million house to build [Chorus] I gotta hold chrome I gotta ride alone Got a family at home but I'm on my own Trying to get this bread right I gotta hold chrome I gotta ride alone Got a family at home but I'm on my own Trying to get this bread right [verse 4: Esham] I got to be my own boss take my own loss Put my own records out pay my own costs Control my own destiny just to be free Make my own style of they they bite to be me Make true your own dream play for your own team But just make sure you support the home team Make up your own mind I write my own rhymes In this life you gotta learn to take your own time I make my own rules create my own rules build it with my own hands with my own tools Never let this industry think they own you cause even when they wrong true they'll disown you [Chorus] I gotta hold chrome I gotta ride alone Got a family at home but I'm on my own Trying to get this bread right I gotta hold chrome I gotta ride alone Got a family at home but I'm on my own Trying to get this bread right