Justine, 19, just got clean
Fresh outta rehab with self-esteem
She aint felt this good in a while
A new leash on life, a vibrant thang, a beautiful smile
Used to run with a circle of friends, who was skeleton thin
Sniff white lines off powerful men
But see, all thats a thang of the past, she got class
And be damned if shed let herself burn and crash
She aint from money so she startin from scratch
Its hard working for scraps
It take everything she got not to relaspe
Locked down in 9 to 5, but at the 9 to 5
She get sexually harrased and chastised
Boss is a married man, she wont touch him
Frustrated angry man, she wont fuck him
Shes out of her job, at Basket Cakes
Least it came wit an 8, 2 lines to the face
God Damn!
Its a cold, cold, world, and you know it
Niggaz will lay you down and take your bread, yeah and you know it
Only two choices, you can give it up or you can just die with it!
Only two choices, you can give it up or you can just die with it, yeah
He was on his own, at a very young age
When he learned from the streets, made everything change
See he came up with hustlers, lost his religion
Its funny how money can make a nigga think he livin
I aint talkin paper like Jigga or Dre
Its more like 7500, 9 ounces of lle
Thats what he say he can get for the flip, they thought the deal was legit
But he stuck him and split, in deep shit
Now his mother work for minimum pay
Live a positive way, she the first one at church every Sunday
Blind to the needs of her son, hes a gatling gun
In the streets, jackin niggaz for fun
Its a non-stop search through the hood, but cant catch him
They found out where mom stayed and went steppin
The evil that men do, but still we continue
With death and dishonor, for the all mighty dollar, its so cold
He was 13, brought up in Baghdad
Ate with his right and made money with his left hand
Prayed to the East, 5 times daily
His mother and father just had a new born baby
Now his father was an Imam who carried the weight
And built his family on 5 pillars of faith
Never trippin off Western ways, it meant nada
Pilgramige to Mecca to circle around Kabba
300 miles away, British troops hit Basra
His cousin waged jihad and died with honor
He heard about the buildings on 9-11
And a man named Bush on a search for weapons
Now here come the U.S., to crush Saddam
Wit 88 thousand tons of missle and bombs
But his familys too broke to move or find shelter
If they all had to die, they would die together and thats cold... damn
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