On My Own

[verse 1: Esham]
I gotta make my own stacks, watch my own back, write my own raps
Plus my own contract
The back catalog I own all that
But when starving and can't get a phone call back
Niggas bout to tie em up cause we cause we know his times up
So I had to cook cocaine and cut the crime up
(?) these niggas heads like line ups
I'm not a toy soldier cause I don't wind up real soldiers keep their grind up the hood is where you'll find us
If be getting money if you're not never mind I'm hustle and flow and I'll be flowing for sure
Trying to sit up there with never running Russеl getting dough

[Chorus]
I gotta hold chrome
I gotta ride alonе
Got a family at home but I'm on my own
Trying to get this bread right
I gotta hold chrome
I gotta ride alone
Got a family at home but I'm on my own
Trying to get this bread right

[verse 2: Esham]
I gotta make my chips drive my own whips make my own grip from my manuscript
Sign the devil's contract while my man you slip cause the only thing I planned to do was flip
And the system ain't designed for you and me to win some people have no shame what the shit they do to win
Way before pro tools and internet we was like fuck a deal slanging cassettes they was bring them checks from the hustle and flow
We were moving them units cause they was ordering more shit was selling like crack out the record store
On my way to getting money like Diddy for sure

[Chorus]
I gotta hold chrome
I gotta ride alone
Got a family at home but I'm on my own
Trying to get this bread right
I gotta hold chrome
I gotta ride alone
Got a family at home but I'm on my own
Trying to get this bread right

[verse 3: Esham]
I'm working with my shit real grown shit the voices in my head won't leave me alone shit
That 17 shot to the dome shit cause still I got my own fucking problems I'm dealing with
My own brother locked up my own mother's sick what you going through huh? I'm on some other shit
Got to pay my own bills make my own deals do my own kills if it gets that real
Count my own skills got my own chrome wheels got my own big booty bitch in high heels
My own murder resume filled with mass skills got my own twenty million house to build

[Chorus]
I gotta hold chrome
I gotta ride alone
Got a family at home but I'm on my own
Trying to get this bread right
I gotta hold chrome
I gotta ride alone
Got a family at home but I'm on my own
Trying to get this bread right

[verse 4: Esham]
I got to be my own boss take my own loss
Put my own records out pay my own costs
Control my own destiny just to be free
Make my own style of they they bite to be me
Make true your own dream play for your own team
But just make sure you support the home team
Make up your own mind I write my own rhymes
In this life you gotta learn to take your own time
I make my own rules create my own rules build it with my own hands with my own tools
Never let this industry think they own you cause even when they wrong true they'll disown you

[Chorus]
I gotta hold chrome
I gotta ride alone
Got a family at home but I'm on my own
Trying to get this bread right
I gotta hold chrome
I gotta ride alone
Got a family at home but I'm on my own
Trying to get this bread right