Still I Rise Lyrics - Singles - D-mac

[Intro:Dr.Maya Angelou] 

Everyone in the world is going to bed one night or another with fear or pain or loss 

Or disappointment, and yet each of us has awaken arisen 

Some how made our absolution, seen other human beings, and said 

"Morning how are you? Fine thanks and you?" And it's amazing 

Wherever that abides in the human being, there is the nobleness of the human spirit 

Despite it all, black and white, Asian, Spanish, Native American, pretty, plain, thin, fat 

Vow to celibate...we rise 

[Verse 1: D-Mac] 

Through the cracks of the concrete grew a rose 

Blossoming every moment I stay true to my soul 

My pops asked son what you gonna do with your flows? 

Kick knowledge or talk about money,cars, and clothes? 

And hoes? I told em both I gotta I'm from the slums 

I deserve to tell em what I got now I started with none 

But to motivate's my m-o, and i do it because 

If i never make it I might inspire someone who does 

And make em think that they can cuz they could 

They try to make us think it aint no way up out the hood 

And we believe and grieve cuz we're naive and we don't know no better 

So I don't write raps I focus spreading open letters 

Like Dear Destiny, I'm just trying to get you next to me 

Give me that and I'll give u the best of me 

I bet you'll see nothing less from me, I think we're meant to be 

Especially cuz I'm from where your budget's small and dreams way bigger 

Where the cabs don't come and where the pizza don't deliver 

Grew up seeing bullet holes through my windows of opportunity 

Aint no unity its all for self its either you or me 

So I'm doing me but I still do it for my corner 

Where I sipped on those coronas and lit up that marijuana 

I swear on everything until the day that I'm a goner 

Imma wake up everyday and go harder than morning boners 

One of a kind can't clone him 

Fuck slaving at 9 to 5's I'm striving to be the owner 

Got the persona of a loner, only trust few 

It's a must you, cut a check or yes its fuck you, yeah fuck you 

I don't need new friends, I don't need loose ends 

I just need new ends,rims for a new benz 

Brims for my new timbs, gin paper and a pen 

Grins from all of my kin, proud that I get it in to make it out 

Goals to grands, dreams to dollars, ideas to income, nigga, plans to prophet 

Couldn't afford dates, shared plates at Boston Market 

Now my bottom bitch in red bottoms on red carpets 

Verses like books out the bible that ghetto gospel 

Street sermons, Hood hymns, Proverbs for the projects 

Poetic & image so photogenic 

Leave yo hoe alone a second then be ready for home wreckage 

Check me out at times square, chilling with my circle 

Ace of spades out the bottle, swisher's filled with the purple 

The plates surf and turf, cocktail sauce for prawn 

You get used to them shula steaks when you become a don 

Was rocking Sean John now its Louis V and Bally 

My partners long gone I do it to make em' happy 

In heaven smiling down on me I talk to em in my dreams 

Used to run with Roy and Keem, young and thugging as teens 

40 tucked in my jeans, its nothing to squeeze 

I come on the scene, fucking clean, the fuck do you mean 

Do i love hoes? hell no I fuck em and leave 

You niggas cuffing em'? please, I'm one and done with your queen 

Nigga I'm a king, Martin reincarnated 

And boy I got a dream, me and my team all make it 

I'm just trying to do my thing, and some of yall hating 

Waiting for my downfall I use yall as motivation 

Motivate me in this world where it seems everybody wanna eat 

But nobody wanna season the meat 

Acting like we aint got the same hours in a day 

When I was out here grinding you was out here trying to play 

I was making visions, you was chasing bitches 

So you aint gotta question the success you aint getting 

And if you aint risking don't expect to make a lot 

Dog how you gone score if you don't ever take a shot? 

Imma make it to the top, even if it takes a lot 

Boy I'm ready for whatever the devil cant make me stop 

I'm a Brownsub nigga boy I came up on the block 

Brownsub nigga boy we came up on a block 

[Hook: D-Mac] 

Where we grind, we ball 

we rise, we fall 

and then we rise again nigga, and then we rise again nigga 

Cuz real niggas take losses, and don't whine 

we get the fuck up and get on our grind 

and we rise again nigga, and then we rise again nigga 

I said still I rise 

[Outro: Dr. Maya Angelou] 

Out of the huts of history's shame, I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain, I rise A black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise Into a daybreak miraculously clear, I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the hope and the dream of the slave 

And so naturally, there I go rising.