Never Be (A Gangsta) - Dice Raw

They ask me what I do, and who I do it for

I do it for all my brothers with no voice

Live a life of crime cause they feel like it ain’t no choice

Trying to make a splash into this world that ain’t moist

Other rappers tell lies live from a Rolls Royce

Me, I’d rather offer a slightly different point of view

Than that fake gangster fairy tale, I’d rather tell the truth

That the war on drugs is really just a war on me and you

But if you can’t hustle then what the fuck you gonna do

When your money low, and your education too

Gotta F-1 then all you hear is F-U

When lookin for a job so I say F them too

And F-U three to them crackers down in D. C

Making drug laws, my man Gotti said he got three

For one CD

Shocking, cops always watching

But you gotta hustle cause they ain’t left us no option

You get turned out or you just curried out

Thuggin ain’t an option to me, I’m an O. G

I’ma go get it, tell me if you wit it

Ye weather the storm through rain, snow blizzard

Certified gooney what you lookin at

The Jim Crow laws in full effect

Modern day slavery is what they say to me

Studied the encyclopedia, duck the media

To see pigs and rats on the far but came easier

Went to the jail was a baby

Pop wasn’t around raised me

Now they tryin to minimum wage me

Because I stood up for my rights they wanna cage me

Place a chip in my brain and monitor me crazy

Turn me to a monster, somebody save me

To keep my foot on your neck is how my hood raised me

They asks why wild why I’m gansta

And why I act foul with a banger

But they don’t ask why them crackers used to hang us

Just the color of my skin I’m a stranger

I was raised up in poverty

I seen it all from homicides up to robberies

Body count like the lottery

I do the damn thing

Got booked twenty times yea that’s a damn shame

They didn’t want to cut the checks

So I slang cain

And I am all about that chicken, no wing things

Talkin about that mugger, it’s either do or die

And if you walked in my shoes for a day, fuck around

Commit suicide

Even babies havin babies now

For the right price, your old man will act shady now

Can’t forget about them days cold

Them days old on State Road

No money on my payroll, stressing on that pay phone