All I respect is money bro

That shit just trying to get this paper

You know what I mean

I ain't got nothing else

All I got is time on my... time

Yo

Time on my mind with not a second to spare

Want everybody from the ghetto to be a millionaire

But to get that guap they gotta earn it

Egos, they got to burn it

Divide and conquer, gotta unlearn it

We living in the days where the killers like prey

Lions in my eyes they behead us for the pay

We protest against yay

With God we might've had it right, but godless I stay

Born here, raised here, summers in J-A

Get up at the same time getting money every day

Mr. Officer we got the ears of the youth

Staring at a king, I guess I would be afraid too

How to kill a shadow is to shine a lot of light (shine a lot of light)

People in every ghetto, you gotta know you'll be alright

So hold on, better days are here, my friend (better days)

Only thing to fear is fear itself

That's where you'll live (where you'll end up)

So hold on

Africa, mother to civilization

Hundred kids mobbin' out at Kennedy Station

Unaware that they're the descendants of Moses

I gotta revitalize the hood 'fore my eye closes

Young G's please turn your cheek to the posers

The OG's suffers through the rightful and hoeses

The clubs to the head so we can throw monies

Sniff coke, pop pills to drop out and talk funny

Every February you revolutionary as soon as march hit blow the whistle, back on the market

Selling street stories make my brother the target

Putting God first when you on the red carpet

Each one, teach one, love your neighborhood

But love the people more, we steady misunderstood

I heard gunshots echo at the peace rally

Why I'm a POI, what a burden to carry

How to kill a shadow is to shine a lot of light (shine a lot of light)

People in every ghetto, you gotta know you'll be alright

So hold on, better days are here, my friend (better days)

Only thing to fear is fear itself

That's where you'll live (where you'll end up)

So hold on

Depressin', stressin', underachieving

Life make you question what you believe in

People that you know become strangers, when money comes

Unfamiliar actions when the money run low, everybody gone yeah

Where the ghetto money though?

It's just you and got bills and your tax debts

Profits you think you made, the IRS hasn't taxed yet

The system works for the hands of the architects

Ultimately we prosper, no matter the hurdle

Prove yourself with the actions and never the verbal

Men cheat, women lie, numbers get doctored

Stand tall, and be careful who you rock with

How to kill a shadow is to shine a lot of light (shine a lot of light)

People in every ghetto, you gotta know you'll be alright

So hold on, better days are here, my friend (better days)

Only thing to fear is fear itself

That's where you'll live (where you'll end up)

So hold on

So hold on