Yo yo
Yo yo
Yo yo
Yo yo
We gon' get this paper that's right
We gon' get this paper that's right
I'm from where some dudes accept life, then pray for repentance
While others did alot of talking tryna run on they sentence
From them trenches, still was lucky, both parents to guide me
They always tried to go and shield me from that world but there was too much to hide me
From, young, dumb with a gun and a dean scholarship
Walking into class, with a bag of clean hollow tips
2 stabs, and alone, for stupid shit we did
Ghetto Genius, A+ student with stick up kids
What separates from my peers, was always clear, was meant for more than that
It's more than rap; not tryna meet my maker where the snorters at
Not quarterbacks, still they throwing bullets in the field
The commissioner don't care, they tell the cops protect the shield
I never yield, my fate is sealed, so on the real, I never falter
Couldn't marry to a life I couldn't alter
Had to leave it at the altar
They say you see it all before you go
So make something worth the view, before you do, you never know
And we gon' get this paper, that's right
We gon', shine, sublime, we just might
Time don't wait, days go, then come night
With them street lights
Them street lights. Them street lights (Street lights)
We gon' get this paper, that's right
We gon', shine, sublime, we just might
Time don't wait, days go, then come night
With them street lights
Them street lights, the street lights
We gon' get this paper, that's right
I'll make sure this thing, go alright
I just gotta beat the street lights
I think alot about what Kiss said, how "we gon' make it"
How success it feel so hollow knowing some ain't make it
How I'll never get to finish with the people that I started with
Ones that's still around say, "hold ya head and keep in ya heart in it"
I feel like they don't listen; or comprehend what's missing
Not a genie, or a God, could grant the things, that I been wishing
Or envisioned. This money paw; guess life comes with a price
Every step as you move forward gotta come with sacrifice
I couldn't make up, under this mask, my mind racing
Building from a broken home, I'm still laying my foundation
Read my lips, can't gloss over, all the things that I'm feeling
To make it appealing, I keep to myself. There's alot I'm concealing
I shadowed, the darkest path, hoping it's the fastest
Sacrifice for all my people, can't kill me with 40 lashes
Now they praise me? Don't make me blush, roses got thorns with it
They asked "how'd he get these scars?" Shit maybe he born with it
But we gon' get this paper, that's right
We gon', shine, sublime, we just might
Time don't wait, days go, then come night
With them street lights
Them street lights, the street lights