Untitled #1 (Hold On)

They say knowledge is power and love is wealth And to get right for what you love you go through hell I should’ve been in school way before now My hunger made it hard for me to focus on anything else If there’s somebody I could’ve atoned to for that I’d apologize like, yo I’m sorry My old earth hates the fact I be up in the crib ‘cause I couldn’t find a job while she works all week Mad arguments up in the rest Like, everything you ever owned in your life you got off me What’s the point of livin like that? I’m ‘noyed livin like that ‘cause if I get it like that I’d give right back But since money talks, money makes me out to be a liar If only we could battle I would tell you put your lines up When you come around people’s face light up You can’t buy happiness but you can take my love You can’t learn out a book how you gotta push And even though life is hard you get out what you put A life lesson makes school seem obsolete Cutting class runnin from N.T.A.s in a hall-sweep I wasn’t prepared for life after that And my pops never cared My mom was the man In between that I figured out the rest for myself My nana said that I remind her of my uncle ‘Dreil ‘cause he was skinny like you when he was your age Only difference is he had a fro and you got braids She was hatin on the raps I played Until she heard it was me and said it’s beautiful I should’ve helped you with your high cholesterol before it gave you a stroke But didn’t, the nursing home left you bedridden They got a nerve comin after us for the bill When you lost mad weight in your frame and your grill In a few weeks I bet you would’ve starved to death Paperthin like them get well cards from your guests I guess god was like “Millie needs to take a rest” The fam’ couldn’t see stayin home’s how I coped I was brain sick, so I threw myself in the zone And worked on some music, I made The Undisputed It seemed each day you’d waste away a little Then you came back like Lamon vs. Vladimir Clitzko My eyes x-ray the city Then I avoid all the trappings I been around for each new change in slang and fashion I’ve seen the one who follows a trend or trendsets I’ve seen shorty thinking she grown ‘cause she got breasts Spend her money on some herb when she get her little check Them dudes risk it all for a pump and some head Sportin summertime babies from wintertime sex I believed in a system that failed me, and fell deep Fool me once, shame on me How could I believe anything them bloodsuckers teach us? We all graduated but we never gon’ be shit Meaning my diploma is meaningless I need a way to breath again so I had to regroup I copped the MP deuce and plugged it up Cook up tapes like Wolfgang Puck