Ace Hood - Hope(2013)

[00:02.45] I feel you
[00:15.78] To every girl who ain't never had a daddy, and every boy who ain't never have a mother
[00:19.74] To that pretty woman lost in the world, who seem to think another man won't love her
[00:24.02] All the homies locked up in the pen, who can never seem to dodge that trouble
[00:28.92] Hold your head up high cuz there's better days, hard times I was praying for them better ways
[00:32.18] I don't know a niggas struggle but I know pain
[00:34.17] Cold world but a nigga trying to maintain
[00:37.94] Still praying for a little change
[00:39.06] Bills due and I can't pay
[00:41.75] Or when your money low when your rent late
[00:42.74] And doc say granny gone after thirty days
[00:44.50] You don't even know the half of my heartache
[00:46.46] Too many I done lost is a heartbreak
[00:47.91] And they wonder why this young nigga goin' hard I done came too far from my boulevard
[00:51.87] Couple war wounds, few battle scars, but I'm still here living gotta thank God.
[00:56.13] It's a cold world, it don't love you
[00:59.78] Funny what a little faith and a hope do
[01:00.41] Lord
[01:01.84] And I know my momma praying for me,
[01:05.52] And my granny praying for me,
[01:07.01] I'm hustling for my family and that's every day and night,
[01:08.76] And the day I witnessed my daughter born it was the greatest day of my life, my life.
[01:15.96] Yeah take a look in my eyes, look how far a nigga came
[01:22.75] You can search my soul, you understand my pain
[01:26.11] Nigga trust nobody, and that probably never change
[01:30.17] With a little bit of hope, you can reach your dreams
[01:34.22] For anybody who done ever had a dream, you are just like me
[01:39.29] Still beleving in myself even when them niggas hated and they told me that it could not be
[01:43.73] You's a muhfuckin' lie, motivate a nigga when you see him on the block
[01:47.72] Tell me how it feel when you struggle with the bills, and your momma take pills, and you never seen your pop.
[01:51.77] That put a dent right into my childhood,
[01:53.49] Still praying that I want to live good.
[01:55.30] Selling dope get you hoes and them nice cars,
[01:57.81] I'm just thinking if I really should.
[01:59.42] Small city young nigga with a mindset
[02:01.42] Ain't never trying to be another convict
[02:03.80] See I can't lose, and I won't quit
[02:05.49] As long as God in my heart then I'm conscious
[02:07.96] Remember when they said I wouldn't be shit?
[02:09.46] People doubted that I ever had a gift
[02:11.25] Who the fuck are you to judge me nigga? I will never let them sink my ship
[02:15.31] Through the trials and tribulations, nigga still I stand, thank God in advance
[02:21.17] Growing up I wanted to be like Jordan,
[02:28.12] Even though I couldn't really afford it.
[02:29.93] Who's to say I can't be an Obama,
[02:30.65] A Tiger Woods worth about a billion dollars?
[02:33.24] Everybody wanna sell a little coke,
[03:06.91] Cuz it's cool to them niggas you know.
[03:07.65] Nobody wanna be another judge.
[03:08.98] Young niggas only looking for the plug (hope)
[03:13.13] Watch your momma doing dope
[03:13.86] Daddy locked in the pen
[03:15.65] And you on your own
[03:17.59] Gotta keep your head up
[03:20.02] When you're tired and fed up
[03:21.16] Better days gon' come
[03:24.07] Better days gon' come
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