Damn Right Lyrics - Population Control - Statik Selektah

As I grew I would see them my comrades 

In corridors, grouped in 2's and 3's and 4's 

Sharing a blunt, talking, cursing, fighting 

Sometimes weeping, lost 

And it seemed to be no way what'soever 

To remove this cloud that stood between them and the sun 

Between them and love 

We all took losses, workers, the hood bosses 

9 to 5'ers, drug dealers, the hood worship 

... that could have went to the league 

But they whole game went to the weed 

Little girl trapped in the crib off this... 

Some older nigger had her pinned in a... 

She was used to them rebox 

But he got them winds that keep spinning when the v stop 

So when the v stop, she stop 

He got right... her little daughter needs socks 

And the grandmother need rock 

Cause she a victim of these street blocks 

The hood is a wall and it's not made of sheet rocks 

It's made of project bricks, elevate is full of project piss 

Incinerators is the project snitch 

That's where you find all... checks 

... cause this malcolm ain't paid the rent checks 

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Damn right I like the life I live 

Well the going it's kinda rough hey 

Cause I went from negative to positive x 2 

And it's all what? 

And it's all good 

The first and the third like christmas in the projects 

That we use food stamps to buy edible objects 

Man the hood is a trap 

While my man can't read but he good with a mac, 

You figure it out 

Why my aunt and my cousin had to live on a couch 

... came back from the storm, couldn't get in his house 

... my little homie buying cocaine 20 a pot 

Not to sell in, inhale... 

We got him... lifting the heaviest box 

All the ladies in that lotto playing numbers, they was dreaming 

They playing them so long, when they hit them they break even 

Too many of us out in this world that ain't eating 

The problems we trying to make excuse is a great reason 

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Damn right I like the life I live 

Well the going it's kinda rough hey 

Cause I went from negative to positive x 2 

And it's all what? 

And it's all good 

The going get mighty rough, doors keep falling shut 

Bills you can't ignore them but you know the piling up 

Police round us up, authorities hard to trust 

And they ain't slowing up until you're inside the cuffs 

Act us if the human rights don't apply to us 

Throw us in front of the judge, load us on a bus 

We escape the maze and the poetry that we buss 

The rap industry, fucked, ain't nobody signing us 

A lot of daddies ain't here to show us how to love 

We learn it from the radio, of course it's not enough 

And listen to the soundtrack our homies growing up 

Boys in love with strippers and shawty want a thug 

When you know you stuck, running short on love 

Oven door open to warm the apartment up 

The baby start to fuss, you know when times are rough 

The only thing for certain, is you cannot give up 

When... gone that kinda rough, I was moving all kind of stuff 

Grinding to find a buck, fiends never goodbye enough 

Them bills kept piling up, the haters would try their luck 

So at night I'd have to fire while running and try to duck 

Them... inside the truck with my name inside them cuffs 

... my team was fly as fuck, on roof I would try to pluck 

I ain't give a flying fuck man I'm gutter 

My daddy left my mother, no sisters no brothers 

No inspiration, just calculating... hoping I'd slip up, on a pick up 

... serving his moms 

... I feel better in this studio just murdering tracks for real 

Damn right I like the life I live 

Times I gotta smile just to hide my tears 

Struggle made me wise, be on my heels 

I hussle to survive just for my kids x 2 

Well the going it's kinda rough hey.