This is the story of them against us/ win or lose
Forcing your feet into someone else`s shoes
Everybody`s got something to say/ that we ought to
Live their way/ what we`re doing`s not okay
In this world everybody`s got a chip on
Both sides of the neck/ got no respect
Wait up a sec
You ever feel like the pressure is
Too much to take/ too much weight
Ladies and gentlemen
If anybody can hear me right now please shout back
We`re not the only ones feeling so trapped
In this dream of somebody else/ in fact
They got their heads full of some overblown scheme
Opportunity they missed back when they were 16
And all they wanna do is push you to be that
And all you wanna do is scream back
Gonna be somebody
[for anybody telling me I can`t]
Gonna be someone
[for anyone who told me I had no chanse]
Gonna be somebody
[I`m telling you the time has come]
Gonna be someone
[and maybe you`ll get it when I`m finally done]
We don`t sleep to dream/ we sleep to build stamina
Energy to do our thing/ get your camera
`Cause this ride is about to begin
Sit down and buckle in/ lemme say it again
In this world everybody`s got a chip on
Both sides of the neck/ got no respect
Wait up a sec
When I was young they said the
Odds of making it were slime to none
Ladies and-
Fuck it/ I`m tired of the saying the dream you have
Doesn`t exist/ telling you you`ve worthless saying you should quit
Basically telling you that you`ll never be shit
Really they`re pissed cause they`ll never achieve some
Opportunity they missed back when they were 16
And all they wanna do is push you to be that
And all you wanna do is scream back
They`re gonna think you`re crazy
Mumbling to yourself/ in the basement all day
Uh-uh-uh-ing to yourself
My pops didn`t get it/ was shoveling to myself
My boys used to get it/ they dug it beacause they felt
My undertaking took me/ I was making in my stealth
A welth of rhymes of crazy/ I would chuckle to myself
Then they went into to the mental rolodex
See I knew `em by heart like a brain in my chest
Then I/ took `em to school where subjects was getting felt
Books under my seat/ notebook laying on my desk
My teacher`s like Mr. Jaco?
Yes?
With all that knowledge, you ain`t trying to go college
Be a lawyer or a doctor, get a whole lotta dollars
Rather degrade women and glorify violence?
Well the work that works for me might not work for you
No homework/ I got work to do
