Trials and Tribulations

What they want what they want what they want huh I hear some saying what they want huh Broadway let them tell us what they want huh Lets Go Some saying they want all of the smoke I started to OD Every instrumental I float folks should know me And B my partner in crime not my Co-D Cause we never got hemmed when we posted and sold things We linked in elementary Now more than a quarter century of history makes this bond no mystery Went from freestyling and beat boxing To seen wyling with green piling from plenty options We keep rocking like we supposed to you boys only local Talent got us traveling the flows gone posta I'm vocal when giving credit send flowers by the bouquet I was loco and spending hours with Bobby Bouche Let me take you down memory lane You claim convenient amnesia don't remember a thing I was sinning in the beginning and ending with pain My older brother kicked out of school my dumb ass did the same Best friends catching bodies and cases bidding in the feds I left my house on that cliff no more living on the edge Cause I dread losing family So I'm giving them a pledge to look ahead instead of considering the ledge Cause I've seen cowards moving With dreams to somehow move me out my position like a scene out a movie They truly may fold on you Former friends became lame and told on you Man this game takes a toll on you Ups and downs trials and tribulations Staring at the mirror contemplating On your life thank God you made it Through rough times and wild situations Some call it luck but I can't help but feel that I'm blessed Feel that I'm blessed We know the game ain't fair but while we play we give it our best Give it our best I makes ya feel it like the pain from betrayal 23 & 1 for 5 days with no bail The canvas I paint is a vision from my tales Of my concrete jungle I bet you won't fight fair I was a middle class kid that was intrigued by the hustle Left Queens New York when everything was a puzzle Man I was just living My older brother got into trouble so moving out to New Jerz was the decision I came from good fam But I struggled on other levels with the game that I would come out the huddle with the devil I was a live rebel I was crooked on a chase I had Kings in my cards but God put me with an Ace Now look me in my face don't ever call no bluff I had a grip on big things when it all so clutch The situation at hand was really far from plush I got anxieties was feeling like it's all too much So gradually I gravitated Spoken so true on my past that you would think that Ving Rhames had narrated The cigarette smoke from the sherm with some Miles Davis In timberlands prior to living thru wild phases Confessional more like therapy to the decimal Man I'd be lying if my demons ain't try to wrestle you Cause Hyde will put his pride to the side and try to Jekyll you The game a run ya life and everything that is left of you Ups and downs trials and tribulations Staring at the mirror contemplating On your life thank God you made it Through rough times and wild situations Some call it luck but I can't help but feel that I'm blessed Feel that I'm blessed We know the game ain't fair but while we play we give it our best Give it our best