[Z-Ro]   I'ma maintain, all about fortune, not the fame   Feddy, cold cash and a diamond ring, it's all about feddy when I   rap sing   I'm sick of this struggling all damn day   never see the sun cause skies stay gray   This for the little kids that can't go play   Cause everybody outside playing with an AK   Come around my niggas you bust you f**k around get lost   Better not set trip, f**k around get tossed    I be a fool with that break them off    Lay it down little daddy straight take them off   Yeah I'm living a sin when against the grain   You don't know Z-Ro you don't know my pain   Tears be coming on down like rain   It's a full time job, trying to maintain   Want to stay right but right be broke, a nigga can't eat with   dreams and hopes   Steady be thinking of sell some dope, or trying to get paid from   songs I wrote   In it to win it, don't plan to lose, got to be a real nigga fill   my shoes   Got to pay the rent, got to pay the light bill    Got to pay the depend, deposit and pay dues   Me and that H-A-W-K, got to deal with stress when it come my way      But one of these days gone be out there   It's a bitch took a ball, ball and parlay   Until we make it we mash together   Ooint seven by the nine we blast together   South sive for live, S.U.C. for life, nigga we get cash forever      (Chorus - 2x)   Maintaining, hustling struggling but I got to survive   Keep maintaining, it's a burden up on my conscience just staying   alive      [Hawk]   I'm a real hustler stacking funds, riding around with a loaded   gun      Some of my niggas that's on the run, with all that weed up in   your lungs   Get your paper, get your dough, buy it off the show room floor   Go about this process slow, and feel the pain of my nigga Z-Ro   Over money I lose sleep, sell work, f**k sheep   Spit heat on beats, to make my, ends meet   Press hard on tablet sheets, everything else is obsolete   Victim of these ghetto streets, you don't work, you don't eat   I strive to, gain fame, struggle to maintain   Stay away from no names and flip bricks of cocaine   This rap thang's been good to me, feeds my, family   Forever keep my sanity, and do this shit for P-A-T   Must keep a leather head, for all my partners let's make em   spread   Me and my niggas we break bread, until the whole family's fed   You heard what, I said, in this, over bull   All that, I say, I speak, the truth      (Chorus - 2x)      [Z-Ro]   Looking at this little light of mine, never did glimmer, never   did shine   Cause I resort to a life of crime, and I know I'm wrong, but I   got to get mine   Got to feed my mouth and five more, I grind every day but I stay   broke   Responsibility baby, taking a load off my little day   Steady be working her fingers to the bone, aching and tired when   she come home   Bout to pull a stunt, last of the month   Ain't no more work, just riding on chrome    No rocks in my pocket the on my neck   One slip and I'm tripping one growing up thick   Give me a couple of zeros on a check   I might sweat, but never gone let up      (Chorus - 6x)