Life is hard Hope I make it It's a risk But I'll take it Feeling like I'm living, stuck in the basement I'm just trying to get a higher placement Life is hard But I'll make it I can't wait a long time I'm anxious I've just gotta get off The pavement So they hear me across The nation Life is hard You feel like you're stuck in the middle Trynna get up but it ain't getting better You feel that you are surrounded by haters Step up your ball game and better go get em life isn't easy like a cup of tea you gotta struggle to be an MC you gotta struggle to take up the lead fuck everybody and be your own king Now I know lotta people kill themselves And I just can't understand why this mess damn niggas going through so much stress to commit suicide , such excuses ? I know that life isn't easy to go ahead either isn't so breezy comon now , why don't you believe me? if you do then come and sing wimme Life is hard Hope I make it It's a risk But I'll take it Feeling like I'm living, stuck in the basement I'm just trying to get a higher placement Life is hard But I'll make it I can't wait a long time I'm anxious I've just gotta get off The pavement So they hear me across The nation Life is hard You gotta break the norms you gotta you gotta be better than all eh you gotta prove your worth they gon' be they gon' be pulling you down eh yeah, you gotta break the norms you gotta you gotta be better than all eh you gotta prove your worth they gon' be they gon be pulling you down. they gon' be pulling you down so you better do something and hold your ground beat the waves even when friends ain't around and cut the bullshit that come out of their mouth Life is a movie and you're in the crowd make a difference and stand the fuck out. it doesn't matter if they're with you or not you gotta move up or else you will move out. I have been through that shit that you've been through and I have been through all this mess before you and I have been shot and shoved hard by my homie and I have had my girl fuck him right before me and I had my mama look at me so sick and I know I am my daddy's big mistake I have been treated like shit on my face but look at me standing in this same fucking place Yet , here I am with this lingo trynna get a moerfucking single you wanna oppose me just say so doesn't matter here have this middle finger what's the matter ? you think I'm way too small ? nah man , I'm just way too competitive dawg. cause. Look life is hard Hope I make it It's a risk But I'll take it Feeling like I'm living, stuck in the basement I'm just trying to get a higher placement Life is hard But I'll make it I can't wait a long time I'm anxious I've just gotta get off The pavement So they hear me across The nation Life is hard