Streets Saved Me

Lyrics

[Intro: T-Pain] Yeah Pizzle Nappy Boy Woo! Yeah Shout out to the streets, man [Verse 1: T-Pain] One day, I woke up and everything around me was broke up Family couldn't handle me, so I go and smoke up And go right back at sleeping dream About bringing my folk up without the choker Was I even ready for the hand I was dealt? Was I even ready to the man that I be felt? Gotta get on my grind let me tighten up my belt Spit this shit from my heart, make the microphone melt I grew up in the area where ain't nobody scared of ya But when you hit the club Niggas watch and niggas scared as fuck Don't nobody wanna be here but they got no choice And everybody wanna be heard without a voice If you don't speak up, I can't hear over these speakers I did what I had to do and now I'm rocking Double Rolls Royce But I wouldn't have it if it wasn't for the streets (streets) And these motherfucking beats (yeah) [Hook: T-Pain] Man, I done held it in for too long, I miss my city And all the motherfuckers that used to be cool with me I was born and raised, made in pain Lost in the game, insane In the streets, dollar after dollar I'm spending I never can forget out the beginning Cause, nigga, I was born and raised Made in pain, lost in the game, insane In the streets [Verse 2: Young Cash] I never worked a nine to five, what do it feel like? I run these streets getting money clutching that steel tight shit So listen close, cause all I tell is the ghetto stories Cause niggas die for nothing, so that stick is mandatory Cause in the projects is no love, no heat, no rub Ain't tryin' to be doctors and lawyers, just more thugs And they ain't tryin' to buy the kids books, just more drugs Tell them their future ain't right, they be like "So what?" But who am I to try to point the finger Cause I done sold everything under The sun that y'all niggas can think of And don't regret at all, because the streets saved me But, Lord knows this ain't the road that my mama paved me You get tired of looking over your shoulder You get tired of your mama crying over and over You gotta take the bad with the good though Yeah I made it out, but I'm still in the hood though [Hook: T-Pain] Man, I done held it in for too long, I miss my city And all the motherfuckers that used to be cool with me I was born and raised, made in pain Lost in the game, insane In the streets, dollar after dollar I'm spending I never can forget out the beginning Cause, nigga, I was born and raised Made in pain, lost in the game, insane In the streets [Interlude] You looking really holy right now Got a holy conversation for memory Lord, let me forget all of the messed up stuff That happened to me in my life Memory won't let me forget all of the Messed up places I've found myself in And y'all looking at me straight You act like you've never been in some messed-up stuff Some messed up places, some messed up situations Some messed up predicaments, you act like You've never had some messed up relationship Memory will not let me forget it [Hook: T-Pain] Man, I done held it in for too long, I miss my city And all the motherfuckers that used to be cool with me I was born and raised, made in pain Lost in the game, insane In the streets, dollar after dollar I'm spending I never can forget out the beginning Cause, nigga, I was born and raised Made in pain, lost in the game, insane In the streets