all you got is one mic one life to live express yaself tell em how you live

all you got is one mic one life to live express yaself tell em how you live i dont like to glorify about the nagative there was hurt there was pain plus i did a long bid everything i say i expresss from the heart i paint a perfect picture of my life fallingits apart its a craft its a art so vivid living in the dark so get on ur mark get ready let the game start verse 1 the lighter and the match sparked thats the only light i seen living on the dark i was smart but my home was far from a real home in the centrals low income housing i used to roam the streets as a young child getting wild i never did understand as a juvie the judge threw the hammer said treat him like a man convicted as an adult ss a young G my mom was ashamed of me and she still is but she still came to visit me gave me a hug said i love u the greatestest feeling G i temember too. everything i went thru in a town called plainview it was rough it was gangsta neva knew a wanksta it was real pimps players hoes gangbangers real dboys real murderas playing with them glocks girbaud gear with the matching socks pocket full of rocks duck and dodging opps ran thru the alley from the cops it was real warfare in the hood where im from where the coke be scama and paroless on the run everybody had a gun if u aint got one better get u one it wasnt all bad i still had fun started rapping real early and i said to myself ima be # 1 some day ima keep flowing writing painting pictures with my words keep flipping the bird keep flipping them birds so absurd but its who i am if u ride with me u ride if not then collide with me then sonebody die