Bend Don’t Break

[Verse 1]
Look
From the place the pain is
Find my heart where the stain is
Find my hope in the hip hop
Keep my dope in a ziplock
All I need is a life I can love
Fuck a bitch and a wristwatch
I ain't fuck wit the classroom
Imma touch plenty cash soon
I been running through the middle of the mud
Puttin' pennies in a plug
Imma probably need a bath soon
Tried to tell niggas last June
That I need my cake really ain't no talk to it
Make that heat you can take that seat
'Cause I spit that flame and I walk through it
I live the love I wanna feel
I know you hurt, I came to heal
I keep the faith, I know it's real
I never change, I know the deal
And you ain't even really gotta tell me shit
Heard the voice divine and I got to work
Mixin' all I got into one big pot
Thinkin' 'bout this shit like it's got to work
Somethin' got to give a nigga got to live
Even though these people don't want me to
Feeling like everything that I been through
Is something like everything y'all been through

[Chorus]
I know you ain't always hard
Know you ain't always tough
Know you ain't all that rich
Probably can't always stunt
Feel like it's always somethin'
Feel like you always stuck
But if it don't break you down
It's only gon' build you up
I know you ain't always hard
Know you ain't always tough
Know you ain't all that rich
Probably can't always stunt
Feel like it's always somethin'
Feel like you always stuck
But if it don't break you down
It's only gon' build you up

[Verse 2]
Bitch I'm back and I'm buildin'
Only black in the buildin'
At a job that I can't quit
Tryna face what I'm faced with
So I burn hella trees when I leave Imma face it
Like I'm stuck in the matrix
Old soul with a new feel
One man but I'm too real
I be sayin' how you feel
And I came from your bootheel
Now I'm headed up tip top
My time on the wristwatch
Ain't luck about it
Give 'em yo C.D. 'til it's on TV
Niggas don't really give a fuck about it
I really put my heart in that
I left the crib and brought it back
I gave 'em game, I taught 'em that
I finish where I started that (Dead)
And people these days ain't built like that
Can't coach that shit I was born with
When it get rough that's when I get tough
That's when a fuck boy gon' forfeit
But there's more to mine
And I'm more than fly
And I'm borderline on my greatness
And it's your design but even more divine than your mortal mind is your patience I-

[Chorus]
I know you ain't always hard
Know you ain't always tough
Know you ain't all that rich
Probably can't always stunt
Feel like it's always somethin'
Feel like you always stuck
But if it don't break you down
It's only gon' build you up
I know you ain't always hard
Know you ain't always tough
Know you ain't all that rich
Probably can't always stunt
Feel like it's always somethin'
Feel like you always stuck
But if it don't break you down
It's only gon' build you up