While We Here - 8Ball & MJG

While we here lets celebrate

dont do tomorrow what you could do today

tell somebody you love’em nigga

tell somebody you love’em nigga (yea, yea)

It was a long hard struggle

my life been a battlefield, but i keep fightin

givin all that i got ta give, real is the only way that i try to live

get mines like the next man gets his

a closed mouth never got fed

thats why im spittin now daddy, do it for the bread

i do it for the love, i do it for the ??

matter fact i really do it for all the above

im mild mannered but im hype on my records

i try to separate real life from the records

most of the stuff that i rap about be facts

but dont mean that i still live like that

a lot of paths, i no longer have to walk up out em

im blessed to be a rapper, i get paid to talk about em

i aint got to keep a strap in my lap now

thank god i can make it with this rap now

Summertime 1985, granmomma, grandaddy they were still alive

me and my cousins playin the the yard

before a young nigga knew that life got hard

years went by, now we in the streets

they was in the trap and i was rappin over beats

jermaine, but everybody called him maine

on my birthday he got murdered and slain

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now he the subject of my sad song

i miss him, we cant never bring him back

i wish he woulda asked me for them couple stacks damn

his momma look so hurt

when she had to put her son body in tha dirt

and i cried, i hope you listen to the words i speak

if one person get the picture thats good for me

im not tryin to steal ya money

im not tryin to take ya woman

im just tryin to feed my family and take care of my momma

im a slave ever since they broke these chains i been runnin

everything came to me was a long time comin

im an OG man, i just look this way

ill do somethin to ya, i just look this way

i aint got enough face for my tear drop trails

too many homies locked up to help em make bail

so i try to send em pictures, holla on tha phone

try to keep em motivated til they make it home

sometimes i feel like im locked up and im free

sometimes i feel like its overwhelming being me

but i snap back and realize im built for this life

everything you take from me imma get back twice

no problems and no failures, imma pro

cuz the solutions for succeeding is all that i know