We gotta hustle for ourselves
They been tryna keep us down
Been strugglin′ way too longSo they gotta hear me now
Ain't got a lot of time and I don′t wanna waste it, waste it
I just wanna win
I just wanna represent for my city
Reporting live from that New Jerusalem underground
Where the verbal elite preparing another round
Sparring with each other until we rising above the ground
We ain't the type to dumb it down for you to love the sound
Been touching every single corner of that tristate
Representing my team, my city, and my state
And lyrically my constituents have been hard to touch
But I be thinkin' yall niggaz ain′t thinkin hard enough
To young niggaz I′m that primitive kind
Because I'm bar heavy, every line that′s written divine
And it don't work for a simpleton′s mind
Very cryptic and dry, maybe I should try a gimmick this time
That grit and that grind, search me and it's livin inside
Been timid and shy, but slaying every nigga alive
Ain′t switching my rhyme, nigga I'm a stick with this style
So get in this ride, hang on while I'm shifting in drive
It′s real
We gotta hustle for ourselves
They been tryna keep us down
Been strugglin′ way too long
So they gotta hear me now
Ain't got a lot of time and I don′t wanna waste it... waste it
I just wanna win
I just wanna represent for my city
Illtown Kid Allik, you know who I came with
My hood to your hood, different city same shit
The world belongs to the man that aims it and claims it
And everyone we know be on the same shit we dangerous
Move like the MVP but I ain't the one to game with
′Cause you don't always end up with the ones who you have came with
Looking for no charity, I look to God for clarity
And everything I do through I just thank Him for preparing me
Put that on the team, we goin′ make it to the big time
Others six feet under or like 60 doing big time
Labels own the prison so homie I can't get signed
I put in this time so either way I'm bout to get mine
I switch lines till this shit sounds
Spit shine I′m young and healthy with a big mind
I been here from the start you know I can′t switch mine
Put we spend too many years on this grind so it's time
We gotta hustle for ourselves
They been tryna keep us down
Been strugglin′ way too long
So they gotta hear me now
Ain't got a lot of time and I don′t wanna waste it... waste it
I just wanna win
I just wanna represent for my city
R.E.A.L Music gonna make it, watch YRS make it
J1da, Dizzy D, my nigga Ish, he goin make it
Quis Chandla, I.T., ayo we already stars
Nonsense and P. Dot, that's Mr. Bars from the Car
Kid Pro, S.O.T.M, Mizi Mac, and STTP
Interstate Runnaz, I can′t forget the Verbal Arteest
See we rising up, saying that Jersey wack is preposterous
I'm proud of us, make some room, 'cause it′s a lot of us
But what′s the odds of us all livin' like champions
If one make it, bring ya man with him
They say the industry filled with wolves, don′t get stuck in the hype
Well tell them devils that we got the frozen blood on the knife
You see we jumping over bigger hurdles
Whether we leap, run, walk, or crawl we still gettin further
It's tunnel vision, never get diverted
This the purpose
Witness as we thriving in that winners circle
We gotta hustle for ourselves
They been tryna keep us down
Been strugglin way too long
So they gotta hear me now
Ain′t got a lot of time and I don't wanna waste it... waste it
I just wanna win
I just wanna represent for my city
